Straying

Examples

• She played till Fanny's eyes, straying to the window on the weather's being evidently fair, spoke what she felt must be done. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He tried both, but both confused him equally, and he came straying back to the same spot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There was a thin wisp of his hair straying on his forehead, she noticed that his skin was of a clear brown colour, his hands, his wrists. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But under the straying voice, what a persistent, almost insane WILL! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My father was an Englishman; but my mother--We are straying away from our subject, Mr. Blake; and it is my fault. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Several close their eyes, and think, or try to get their straying thoughts together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Our two heath-croppers are in the habit of straying into the meads, and tomorrow evening you can go and see if they are gone there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ursula thought a moment, gathering her straying wits together. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His head and throat were bare, and, as he spoke with a helpless look straying all around, he took his coat off, and let it drop on the floor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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