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

The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.

From The Evil Shepherd by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Here the Sunday saunterer stops and lounges with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

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

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)