Wanders

Examples

• And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When you feel it in your stomach, your attention wanders, and you begin to fidget. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But though Peggotty's eye wanders, she is much offended if mine does, and frowns to me, as I stand upon the seat, that I am to look at the clergyman. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Like a stray sheep that wanders over the sleet-beaten hill-side, while the flock is in the pen, and dies before morning-dawn. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You will find him at Dunkeld; gentle and tractable he wanders up the hills, and through the wood, or sits listening beside the waterfall. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The mind wanders from the nominal subject and devotes itself to what is intrinsically more desirable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reflective dealings with the material of instruction is constrained and half-hearted; attention wanders. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He wanders over Roman history, and over Greek philosophy and mythology, and finds everywhere crime, impiety and falsehood. Plato. The Republic.
• We are not all immediately interested in all problems: our attention wanders unless the people who are interested compel us to listen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Moore wanders through all the rooms. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• More restless than he was, he crawls out of his house, and looks at me, and wanders to the door, and whines to go upstairs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The topics to which it wanders are unavowed and hence intellectually illicit; transactions with them are furtive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She wanders about in the night, and then lays hands on such food as she takes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He is very low and ill, and he even wanders a little sometimes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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