itinerate
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After the short, with Hall playing an itinerate gambler, made it into the Sundance Film Festival, Anderson expanded it into his feature debut, 1997’s “Hard Eight,” which catapulted Hall’s career.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Fired from that job when new owners bought the Minneapolis station, the itinerate newsman landed as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune in the hour-long series that bore his name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
His strong suit was his itinerate susceptibility; but his main anchorage was his better five-fifths.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
He approved of Boehler's plan to itinerate among the plantations and promised that both his own and Schulius' salaries should be paid him, that he might be supplied for traveling expenses.
From The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries
He would be able to remain the itinerate tinkerer; designing and building the most inane creations that regularly had little purpose beyond satisfying technical creativity.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
The Penningtons were successively of Exeter, Lezant, and Stoke-Climsland, and itinerated as occasion required.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
In 1856 he was appointed to Alsace, and had his station at Strassburg, whence he itinerated to France and the Rhine provinces, and met everywhere acceptance among Jews and Christians.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
For instance, it is the very objection urged by Celsus, that Christians were but parallel to the credulous victims of jugglers or of devotees, who itinerated through the pagan population.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Bishop Kavenaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in introducing me to the Louisville Conference in 1858, told them that though a Presbyterian I had "out itinerated the itineracy itself."
From A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
Long before this time the Rev. R. Lechler, of the Basel Missionary Society, had widely itinerated in the neighbourhood of Swatow and the surrounding regions.
From A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor
I therefore now purpose, the Lord enabling me, after nearly six months interruption, to return to the studies preparatory to my future duties as an itinerating missionary.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
That there is much bustle in the streets, I can see by the obstacles my vehicle encounters at every step, itinerating peddlers, carts heavily laden, mandarins and their noisy following.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
After struggling with many difficulties in obtaining the means of education, he qualified himself for the duties of an itinerating tutor.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
In addition to their itinerating labours, they gradually filled the pulpits thus left vacant in the chapels.
From Excellent Women by Various
He was also in the habit of itinerating during the early part of his Evangelical ministry.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey