Wandering

Examples

• 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.
• I described to him how, when according to his custom he was the first down, he perceived a strange horse wandering over the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And now it is, that I begin to see her solitary brother passing through the dark streets at night, and looking, as he goes, among the wandering faces. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Stephen, subsiding into his quiet manner, and never wandering in his attention, gave a nod. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• His pointing to the truckle bed in the corner, seemed gradually to bring that poor couch to Bradley's wandering remembrance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her pale face brightened as she repeated the words, her wandering eyes fixed on me with a sudden intereSt. Ah, how happy you must have been! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He has made up his mind to leave off wandering at once, and to give up his dependence on your generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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.

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