Wanderings

Examples

• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• May it bless thee, Stephen, too, in all thy wanderings, and send thee peace and rest at last! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But no sooner was this promotion secured than he started again on his wanderings southward, while his friend Adams went North, neither having any difficulty in making the trip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But I felt that we should not have had those old wanderings, even if it had been otherwise. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Did my name occur in any of his wanderings? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And now my wanderings began, which are to cease but with life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Your wanderings had taken an opposite direction to the pensionnat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Not in a land of war and blood, surrounded by hostile neighbours, and distracted by internal factions, can Israel hope to rest during her wanderings. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I pursued wanderings as wild as those of the March-spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• From Canada, after the episodes noted in the last chapter, he went to Adrian, Michigan, and of what happened there Edison tells a story typical of his wanderings for several years to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was more decently born and brought up than the cattledrovers who passed and repassed him in his wanderings; but they merely nodded to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The theatre and the public-house were the chief themes of the wretched man's wanderings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The book of Numbers takes up the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert and their invasion of Canaan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Meanwhile she lay on her bed with old Joanna at her side, for even in her wanderings she did not forget her forlorn protege. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The old tourist is far away on his wanderings, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These pages are not the record of my wanderings and my dangers away from home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Do you think the minds which are suffered, which are indulged in wanderings in a chapel, would be more collected in a closet? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• To the historian of the world the wanderings of Alexander have an interest of their own quite apart from the light they throw upon his character. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am often with him, and he enjoys my adventures, while I like to feel that someone is glad to see me when I get back from my wanderings. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The fame of it seemed to have reached him, in some of those perilous Indian places where his wanderings had lain. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But, the old abhorrence grew stronger on her as she grew weaker, and it found more sustaining food than she did in her wanderings. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Somewhere in his Indian wanderings, the Colonel had picked up with some wretched crystal which he took for a diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Never more were they to rest on their wanderings, from the day which witnessed their separation, to the day which witnessed their death. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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