saunterer

Example Sentences

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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

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 The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr

He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the Holy Land.

From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H

Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.

From Literary and Social Essays by Curtis, George William

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 A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel