Sauntering
[sɔ:ntərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saunter
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Examples
- He was only sauntering by and stopped to prose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Crispin burst out laughing, and, sauntering to the window, threw his burnt-out cigarette into the green grass beyond. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But Emma's wonder lessened soon afterwards, on seeing Mr. Elton sauntering about. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The old tune, said St. Clare, sauntering in. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The nurses, sauntering on with their charges, would pass and repass her, and wonder in whispers what she could find to look at so long, day after day. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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