Wanderer
['wɒnd(ə)rə(r)] or ['wɑndərɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rambler, rover, stroller, landloper, nomad, traveller, vagrant.
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Examples
- Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She went into the kitchen, and stirred up the fire, and lighted the house, and prepared for the wanderer's refreshment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And thus Becky said she was a wanderer, poor, unprotected, friendless, and wretched. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- So our little wanderer went about setting up her tent in various cities of Europe, as restless as Ulysses or Bampfylde Moore Carew. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She promenaded a second time, and was again the sole wanderer there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She's an idiot, a wanderer in her mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here, come in, bonny wanderer! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is only to suppose that the night is over and the poor wanderer is on her way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer, and that I would become. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Will you laugh at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The wanderer, decoyed into the enchanted castle, heard rising, outside, the spell-wakened tempeSt. What, in all this, was I to think of Madame Beck? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- THE WANDERER We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night, about the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the hat of wanderer number two, the shorter one, I drop this pellet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Wherein the wanderers were right, and the heads of the same were level. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She refused to read any communications from Greece, desiring me only to mention when any arrived, and whether the wanderers were well. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nay, there is doubtless much truth in those extravagant travels of Marco Polo, Sir John Mandeville, and such-like wanderers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The dawn is up--the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Both the wanderers looked up towards the window; but, after interchanging a mutter or two, soon applied themselves to the door-posts below. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Every few moments he called aloud the names of the wanderers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They were armed, horsed, and charioted; the poor Hebrew wanderers were afoot. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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