Rambling
['ræmblɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble
(a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
Typed by Floyd
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stroll, ramble.
Editor: Rodney
Examples
- You think so because I am a little rambling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The boy grew so like his mother,' said the woman, rambling on, and not heeding the question, 'that I could never forget it when I saw his face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Pickwick sat himself down in a chair before the fire, and fell into a train of rambling meditations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The conversation on Yeobright had been started by a distant view of the young man rambling leisurely across the heath before them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In this strange rambling place I don't know that I could find it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This information--extracted from a long rambling answer in the broadest Cumberland dialect--told me all that I most wanted to know. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One reflection more, and I will end this long, rambling letter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It must have been of great service to you, in the course of your rambling life, Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They heard these words,-- It looks a rambling old building. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ve-ry absurd, to be a little rambling, is it not? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am a little rambling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Olenska--O-len-ska, he repeated, drawing back the message in order to print out the foreign syllables above May's rambling script. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There were low rambling buildings of concrete barred with heavy impassable doors, and no amount of hammering and hallooing brought any response. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In these desultory ramblings she passed the cottage of Susan Nunsuch, a little lower down than her grandfather's. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But Yeobright was too deeply absorbed in the ramblings incidental to his remorseful state to notice her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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