Verb (used without object) : sauntering through the woods. From Dictionary.com.
He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
The saunterer came further inside, took a good look around and then marched off to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Office clerks could be forced to attend punctually at ten; and that wretched saunterer, whom five days a week he saw lounging into the. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
With these words he took leave of the saunterer, who would have delayed his retreat, by calling to him aloud, that he had not yet described the situation of his castle. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Thither, too, comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that wearisome attendant himself, and thither come both males and females, who, upon a different principle, desire to make themselves double. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
'Fred' was taking his stand as a literary journalist, a flâneur, a stroller, an idle saunterer, in an age of academic criticism, of 'field' specialists on the one hand and fanatic 'close readers' on the other. From Wordnik.com. [On F. W. Dupee (1904 - 1979)] Reference
On Friday afternoons, I am an unrepentant saunterer. From Wordnik.com. [Three Beautiful Things] Reference
Henry, a vastly different man from the genial saunterer of. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
The saunterer's Apple not even the saunterer can eat in the house. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
Sunday saunterer stops and lounges with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
I will confess that there was a time when I could have loved that career as a saunterer in West End streets. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Island] Reference
His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
There is a modicum of natural history, but mostly he reaps the intangible harvest of the poet, the saunterer, the mystic, the super-sportsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
He may, indeed, consider me an intruder in the walks of literature, but I am only a saunterer, and malign nobody who chooses to let me pass. From Wordnik.com. [A Publisher and His Friends]
His nature lore was an aside; he gathered it as the meditative saunterer gathers a leaf, or a flower, or a shell on the beach, while he ponders on higher things. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
But it is not of Thoreau as a saunterer, or as a naturalist, or as an essayist, that I wish to speak, but as a moralist, and this in relation to American politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches] Reference
It is very common in the gardens about Colombo, and its size, and the transparent talc-like spots in its wings cannot fail to strike even the most careless saunterer. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
It is very common in the gardens about Colombo, and its size, and the transparent talc-like spots in its wings, cannot fail to strike even the most careless saunterer. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
Unable to make anything of its meaning, the saunterer put it in her pocket, and, dismissing the matter from her mind, went on by the by - path which led to the back of the mill. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
I have never watched a man do anything useful who has not been graceful at some moment of his labour; it is only the loafer and the idle saunterer who is as useless and uninteresting to the artist as he is to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanies] Reference
In the twinkling of an eye the well-dressed but hapless saunterer above mentioned, who already had one foot on the doorstep, was plucked bodily from the threshold and borne away in triumph amid jeers and shouts of joy. From Wordnik.com. [In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.] Reference
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
Cosmo Bertram, once guardsman, then fashionable saunterer wherever society was gayest, quietly extravagant and sentimentally dissipated, had, after much flitting about the sunny centres of the Continent, settled down to Paris and a happy place in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad'] Reference
Whether, on the other hand, a handsome seat amidst well-improved lands, fair villages, and a thriving neighbourhood may not invite a man to dwell on his own estate, and quit the life of an insignificant saunterer about town for that of a useful country-gentleman?. From Wordnik.com. [Querist] Reference
But their philosophy was naturally conformed to it; and in their contrast of the bewildering variety of finite visible things with the unity of the Eternal Being of which all are phases, those ancients were in close sympathy with the thoughts of the modern meditative saunterer by field and river and wood. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern] Reference
Sometimes, where fish have not been disturbed by poachers, or loafers throwing stones and otherwise annoying them, they will not heed a passer-by, whose gentle walk or saunter does not affright them with brisk emotion, especially if the saunterer, on espying them, in no degree alters his pace or changes his manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
There are not a dozen shops where the clerks speak even good pidgin English, most signs are in Spanish, the lists of voters on the walls are chiefly of Iberian origin, the very county officers from sheriff down -- or up -- are names the average American could not pronounce, and the saunterer in the streets may pass hours without hearing a word of. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
Like FitzGerald, too, our friend is a lover of solitude; like him he shuns cities, gets his exhilaration from the common life about him; is inactive, easy-going, a loiterer and saunterer through life; and could say of himself as FitzGerald said, on describing his own uneventful days in the country: “Such is life, and I believe I have got hold of a good end of it.”. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend John Burroughs]
A house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
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