Wandered

Examples

• She stood up and wandered across the room. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She had wandered away to a subject on which Elinor had nothing to say, and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The next was written at another time: I have wandered a long distance, and for many hours, and I know that I must soon die. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I felt solitary as I dropped asleep here, and, missing it a little, wandered back to it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• AN ISLAND Meanwhile Ursula had wandered on from Willey Water along the course of the bright little stream. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But before we deal with the closing chapter of the story of Alexander, let us say a word or so about these northern regions into which he wandered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her accents obeyed the fitful impulse of the wind; they swelled as its gusts rushed on, and died as they wandered away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I hardly know how I have wandered into telling you this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The days passed pretty much as they had passed before, except--it was a great exception--that little Em'ly and I seldom wandered on the beach now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Eustacia could not rest indoors, having nothing more to do, and she wandered to and fro on the hill, not far from the house she was soon to leave. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was the settled manner of a tired man, who had wandered and struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into his road and saw its end. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mr. Jackson's fingers wandered playfully round his nose at this portion of his discourse, to warn his hearers that he was speaking ironically. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As my eyes wandered about the garden, the sight of the hundreds of air craft lying unguarded around us suggested the simplest avenue to freedom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself; a path of action from which he has long wandered? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His mind wandered away to the question of what May's drawing-room would look like. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was almost falling asleep over this compliment; it took him so long to get through, and his mind wandered so much in the course of its execution. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• While my eyes were watching the Sergeant, my mind wandered away in spite of me to what had passed, on that former occasion, between Rosanna and me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For a time Gautama wandered alone, the loneliest figure in history, battling for light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Across this wilderness, which is now the great plain of Europe, wandered a various fauna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the midst of vivacious discourse her eye still wandered to Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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