Wander

Examples

• When she had gone Archer stood up and began to wander about. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sweet one, and I folded her to my heart, better repose than wander further;--rest--my beloved, I will make a fire--you are chill. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Don't turn me out of doors to wander in the streets again. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Idris had visited me; Idris I should again and again see--my imagination did not wander beyond the completeness of this knowledge. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You wander: your head becomes confused. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• 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.
• Wandering seemed to her like restlessness, dissatisfaction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You must be wandering in your mind, partner,' Silas remonstrated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am, however, wandering from my subject. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Can it be a wandering dog that has come in from the street and crept and nestled hither? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• 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.

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