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

Perhaps, at the time when he showed this energy about a game at dice, Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book, and a foolish schoolmaster might have made him a dunce.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

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 Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

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 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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