| 单词 | maunder |
| 例句 | I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We put up a small handwritten notice at the newspaper office and made sure that old Backy Medlin, the gin’s most maundering gossip, knew what we were looking for. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Maybe taking a picture is a better solution, especially for more maundering passages that require much typing? There’s not much to this app for book readers 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z I admit to being a sucker for this kind of intellectual maundering about the meaning of sports, but I know plenty of sports fans can’t stand it. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The whole show maunders on in fits and starts. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z He speaks in an unexpectedly light, clear voice that is nonetheless shading off into the maundering monologue of an old man, exhausted by war and personal catastrophes. Lincoln – review 2013-01-24T15:30:01Z Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.” Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “Did I mention I had children? Three. Fascinating creatures,” the marquise maunders on. ‘Emilie’ Review: Defending, and Defining, a Life 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z This is the Beckettian strain in Scorsese: his characters are no longer tough guys, but wizened old figures maundering away to each other, immobile in wheelchairs or senior-citizen home seats, with blankets over their knees. Why The Irishman should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Surely, Joan of Arc, that maundering Maid of Orleans, falls solidly into the category of fascinating, exemplary misfit. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z And he tended to offset extremely fast playing with extremely slow, more maundering than meditative: a manic-depressive approach that might be appropriate to Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony but not to this vital concerto. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov - Review 2011-10-13T20:20:50Z Yesterday, I was maundering on about what might happen in the 2024 US election. How should you deal with stress in 2020? First, ditch the meditation 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In elementary school, I sat in class with a book in my lap while the teacher maundered on about fractions. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Rose is an assertive 9-year-old, though given to existential maundering: “Why am I a little girl/Where am I a little girl/When am I a little girl/Which little girl am I.” Theater Review: In ‘The World Is Round,’ Girl Decides to Climb Mountain 2014-04-22T02:00:01Z Loewe recounts his tales in maundering fashion, spurred on by an interlocutor, a woman whose identity is gradually revealed. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Unsparing, Munch portrayed himself sick with the Spanish flu, drunk and with the bottles rearing up at him, ill and old and alone, sunken-faced, maundering around a darkened house. Edvard Munch: a head for horror 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z The review said, “Surely, Joan of Arc, that maundering Maid of Orleans, falls solidly into the category of fascinating, exemplary misfit.” Opinion | Take it from Mark Twain — Joan of Arc was a hero 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Hughes ran efficient and productive meetings, with a low tolerance for maundering or side conversation, but he was given pause by the gravity of the occasion. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z And a reminder that the journey is a maundering circle, filled with both farce and delight. Review: 'Burly Men at Sea' Is a Whimsical Romp Worth Taking 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Rather they maunder on about his inventions, delusions and his quest for personal awakening. A 35-year-old self-avowed devil worshipper accused of strangling his roommate at their Kentucky nursing home has been ordered to undergo a mental evaluation before the case against him can proceed 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z "Won't he drink the toast?" he maundered, in an uncertain voice. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z All the rest carry their cares to her, and begin maundering in her ears about their own affairs. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z They had been involved in dangers and supreme soul-conflicts, which knit hearts together more closely than a decade of conventional maundering. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But he was not to be turned from his purpose by any maundering sentimentality on the part of the attorney-general. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Now that I can do nothing, I maunder over old subjects, and your approbation of my climbing paper gives me very great satisfaction. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z When we found ourselves weary, we betook ourselves to repose; when we felt inclined to talk and maunder over the fire, we never troubled ourselves to ask what o'clock it was. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z "It's mighty pleasant to be building a fire for you—for just us," he maundered. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The old stager is case-hardened in his crimes; they are second nature to him, and, in spite of coaching, still he maunders on in the same old style, with the same set faults. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z He heard the maundering tones of an intoxicated man and—sharply contrasted—the voice of a woman. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z All hands being aft, the skipper maundered forrard, to find his further progress stopped by this rope. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It is with grief that I find myself constrained to listen to your maundering bosh. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Staring idly ahead of her, Persis maundered in a hollow voice, "And they refused my hand!" What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z She heard him maundering incoherently to his valet for a time, a long time; the valet seemed to be trying to make him listen to reason and failing in the end. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The maundering talk of Jasper in the opium woman’s den need not be taken literally. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z While the sheriff maundered on, he rapidly reviewed the details of the case, so far as he knew them. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I maunder sadly to and fro— I who was once so jolly! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z He can only fumble and stammer at it helplessly, weak and maundering and incoherent. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Meanwhile the winner of the musical prize from the Villa Medici had sat down to the piano and plunged straightway out of a maundering improvisation into a waltz by Strauss. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z At a quarter to ten Mr. Horbury appeared in cap and gown and read a chapter from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, with one or two singularly maundering and unhappy prayers. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The party were in sore dismay, for the interesting patient had begun to maunder very preposterously in his talk. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z David was an illiterate mystic, as his writings shew, in which, when the drift of his maundering is made out, there is nothing new or remarkable to be discerned. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z "I don't know—I can't say—oh, dear me, how dreadful it all is!" maundered Mrs. Coppersley, opening the door of the study. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Here I have wandered on much like a maundering old man, without first setting down the adventure of the day, and then commenting, if so inclined. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z She maundered on as Jill retreated, aware that the crisis was postponed. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z “Oh, hush, hush, dear,” whispered Tryphie; and Lady Barmouth maundered on in tones asking for sympathy, as she set herself up as the suffering ill-used mother whom no one tried to comfort in her distress. Lady Maude's Mania At this point the maundering, pious pessimist is interrupted by a rag dealer799 of a more cheerful temper. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius With an effort the men accepted the interesting statement with a duly chastened glance at the maundering lady. A Poached Peerage It is only the born fool who goes from house to house and from friend to friend maundering about ill luck and an unkind Providence. Deep Moat Grange "Ah, my poor orphaned child!" maundered the carpenter. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers But after all, that great maundering oaf would never have spoilt my plans but for your cursed interference. The Firebrand Everyman makes his own God and heaven," maundered on the Professor, in a set, monotonous voice, "out of his individual animal or mental needs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 "No, it was maundering of an old man." The Garden of Eden Hazel covered her face with her hands, resting her elbows upon her knees, while Mrs Thorne went maundering on; and as the poor girl sat there, mingled with her thoughts came her mother’s garrulity. The New Mistress A Tale It is so easy to lose an hour in maundering over the past, and to waste the good things which have been provided in remembering instead of creating! Methods of Authors And then she still loved the wretch, and would maunder by the hour. Ancestors A Novel He would—he thought—never again be the maundering sentimentalist and enthusiast, imagining perfection in every beautiful woman that he saw. The "Genius" This is but a dry maundering; however, I am quite unfit—“I am for action quite unfit Either of exercise or wit.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) I shall see death before I am——” Even while he maundered on in this strain he was unconsciously obeying the command to fetch wood, and moved toward a pile left ready. A Daughter of the Forest His maundering excuse is that you yourself seemed to acknowledge Miss Jaques’s right to be acquainted with her friend’s whereabouts. The Silent Barrier She is, therefore, but poor company for the tall marine, who seems, however, quite satisfied with the portion allotted him and maunders on inanely about the surroundings generally. Rossmoyne Force, and passion, and simple truth, and powerful thoughts of the world and man, are rare; and poetical reformers appear maundering about miserable attempts at English hexameters and sapphics. Spenser Shakespeare owes them nothing; and we have received from them little more than some maundering mystification and much ponderous platitude. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 I had maundered out to the Campo Santo that last day, and on the road back, just after passing through the walls, an Englishman who had lost himself asked the way to the market-place. The Recipe for Diamonds Even as my friend maundered ahead a squall burst, the jaws of the rain were opened against the coffee-house windows, and at that inclement signal I remembered I was due elsewhere. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) She mutters and digs and buries it deep— The little green leaves are wild on the trees— And nearer and nearer the noises creep, That gibber and maunder and whine and weep ... Weeds by the Wall Verses You are not a real hard-working novelist; not a practical novelist; so you don’t know the temptation to let your characters maunder. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) She was maundering over to herself the silly words of some inane song of the day. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography These maundering cogitations must have spread themselves over a considerable time, for when Haigh roused me up, he said that I had slept very nearly round the clock. The Recipe for Diamonds As I lay against the parapet, wholly wretched and not entirely master of my mind, I could hear my kinsman maundering to himself in an altered and melancholy mood. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Barclay mentally invoked the face of his former friend, as he had seen it on the occasion of their last meeting, flushed, swollen-eyed, insolent, the fine patrician mouth hideously contorted and maundering insults, filth, banality. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel We should also be spared the wretched spectacle of the well-paid drones of theology maundering over the question of a "living wage" for the honest men who do the laborious work of the world. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) But if it had been, I dare say I should have been no whit the less horrified and alarmed and disgusted by this lamentable spectacle of my wife--stupid, maundering, helpless, and looking like ... The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Horma, the hag, who has heard them, creeps maundering up and gazes at them. Nirvana Days There will be Bruce of Earleshall and––” Then, catching Lady Cochrane’s eye, he brought his maundering plans of hospitality to a close. Graham of Claverhouse "Mammon by day and maundering at night Oh, Shade!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 She would bend and stare into a face glaring under the timbers and maundering for help, then pass on. In a Little Town Both of us maundered then 'Lame humpback,—never more Will he come limping, drain his tankard at our door! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning How Janey chattered, how the children maundered on about their little concerns, which were of consequence to nobody! Phoebe, Junior Respectable platitudes, you go maundering on about Cobden and Gladstone, and the liberty of the individual, and the rights of nationality, and government by the people. Liberalism Anyhow, the look gave Lucy sufficient occupation to keep her very quiet on the other side while Miss Dora maundered on. The Perpetual Curate "You told me not to maunder just now," says Bingo, with ponderous sarcasm. The Dop Doctor All I can say is, that if, as a student of Comparative Mythology, I have been drinking deep draughts of maundering madness, I have been drinking in good company. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays And now, if you've quite finished maundering over the beauties of a landscape which you can't see, supposing we focussed on the object with which we set out. Jonah and Co. The alms-basket was also called a maund, and those who partook of its contents maunders. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. But don't I tell you, we heard him maundering on somewhere or other? Tom Brown at Oxford While he was maundering on, the whole truth flashed upon me. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice He stooped for a handful of pebbles, with which he pelted the landscape, maundering, "Say, why don't you come around to the Turk's room and get better acquainted with the Gang?" The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life If I was running the concern, though, I would touch the mooney, maundering mess. A Black Adonis “What if I did gun him?” the high-pitched voice maundered on. The Fighting Edge "Such a handsome young man, so gentlemanly, such an air!" maundered the miserable woman between her chattering teeth. The Light of Scarthey Salisbury looked out after him and saw him maundering along the pavement, halting now and then and swaying indecisively, and then starting off at some fresh tangent. The House of Souls But if it be given to a man "to maunder away his mind in softnesses," he cannot live otherwise than as nature has made him. An Old Man's Love So maundering, Tammy returned to the house, and closed the back-door behind him, and then Yaspard stole round to the uninhabited and ruined portion of the house to reconnoitre. Viking Boys The gist of his mental maundering was a childlike desire to have everything sewed up tight. The Big Fix Salisbury looked out after him, and saw him maundering along the pavement, halting now and then and swaying indecisively, and then starting off at some fresh tangent. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories I see that you’re off to bed this minute, and don’t go maundering about tents and axes. The King's Daughters A man may maunder away his mind in softnesses till he ain't worth nothing, and don't do no good to no one. An Old Man's Love He maundered on in that strain for several minutes. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Thus the Laird maundered on, and Mannering, glad to escape being asked about the doubtful fortune which the stars had predicted for the young heir, did not interrupt him. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North He maundered along on this theme for two or three minutes and at last he clinched the nail. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile At length, nothing remains but to blow the Hautboys; and just as the chorus arrives at its fulness, they come maundering in. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators She should find that there was no maundering softness with him now. An Old Man's Love "Let her go, Granser," Hoo-Hoo encouraged; for the old man was already maundering about the disrespect for elders and the reversion to cruelty of all humans that fell from high culture to primitive conditions. The Scarlet Plague Define the following words and use them in sentences: railed, maundered, coxcomb, parasite, conclave, turgid, folio, overture. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College You don't find him maundering supinely about his latter end. The Brentons That old Lady Blake—she would keep me maundering to her about that son of hers in the Mauritius; you know he and I were at St. Petersburg together. April's Lady A Novel Ha, Kit!" he cries, gladly, "here you find me, as usual, maundering among my Women. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Hare-Lip rubbed his bullet head reminiscently, and the boys returned to the old man, who was maundering ecstatically about Vesta, the squaw of the founder of the Chauffeur Tribe. The Scarlet Plague He maundered and wandered, and stopped, and went on, and lost one thread and took up another, and got into a perfect maze. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 That is what his life has turned, but he will not maunder about it. Browning's Heroines Whether "thieves" or "leaves" she doesn't explain, and presently her mind wanders entirely away from Mr. Browne's maundering to the subject that so much more nearly interests her. April's Lady A Novel They cast it as one casts a coin into the hand of some maundering beggar, with commingled oh-wells and philosophical pity. Europe After 8:15 And while they maunder along they stifle the forces of life which are trying to break through. A Preface to Politics One word from him to his father could change the story of Crazy Laura and make it, on the second telling, only the maundering tale of an insane, herb-gathering woman. The Cross-Cut Then he glanced at the pitiful figure, maundering and sputtering across the way. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White “Beautiful words are the very light of thought,” he says, but does not maunder about the “colour” of words, in the style of the decadence. On the Sublime One can only guess, for his brain is muddled, and he maunders. Sunrise After him came the man in the velvet jacket, who was maundering, Doctor Wilhelm, Max Pander, and the other two sailors. Atlantis Too smart is too restless and no happiness, ever, without that it's chased by obsessive maundering moping about what comes next. Eastern Standard Tribe The guide, a maundering fellow, turned because he was not fed better than at home, and because he knew that but for his obstinacy we should not have lost the dog. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) Who would not sooner be an old-fashioned infidel than such a doting and maundering rationalist? Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) "Drop in here about seven-thirty when you feel like hearing the old man maunder," he said with his slight, friendly smile. Success A Novel But here he had maundered on, and never found out the all-important things about her. The Girl from Montana They shall be welcom, See all be ready in the noblest fashion, The house perfum'd, now I shall take my pleasure, And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me. Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) But Sir Richard Temple is not gifted with a sense of humour, and on this amendment he wandered and maundered away for the better part of an hour. Sketches in the House (1893) Mournfully maundering, Life's last moments squandering, Weary, weary, wandering, Through this world of sin, Hermit-shade! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. "I believe, alas, that a dotard Heaven maunders over an exhausted Earth." Là-bas "I'll give you more than dictation, if you don't stop maundering," threatened Mollie. The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers But it is great nonsense, you know, for you and me—Venturists—to be maundering like this. Marcella How that noble soul would have spurned the maundering sentimentalist who talked of truth and beauty, and music and moonlight and feeling, and behaved as a mean and bad man! The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Now Law, the Old Antic, seems utterly frantic, absurdly romantic and maundering; And Cool Common Sense has gone dotty and dense, in dim deserts of Sentiment wandering. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 Among the occultists who maunder today in the universal decomposition of ideas he is the only one who interests me. Là-bas He heard his own voice maundering through lifeless lips like that of a stranger: "The man that can eat his soul will win, Pierre." Pardners It was as if he were crawling around scavenging for bits of himself, not heeding the horrified calls of his old wife who nervously maundered her concerns to him from the bed. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Sentimentalists may maunder over it in pinkly blushing perversity; but the naughty world thinks otherwise, putting, if not openly its finger to its nose, at least secretly its tongue in its cheek. Deadham Hard My poor father is falling into that sear and yellow leaf, his dotage," he said, "that is evident; what could possess him to maunder so? Miriam Monfort A Novel By the time I had got through Sharpin's maundering report of his own folly, I saw my way clear enough to the end of the Rutherford-Street case, just as you thought I should. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 Notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary by false friends and weak maundering philanthropists, the California Indians are a grossly licentious race. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Yet, wreck as he is, when he gets up at the Petty Sessions to defend some labourer, the bench of magistrates listen to his maundering argument as deferentially as if he were a Q.C. Hodge and His Masters So he sat for a while, maundering dismally, then stood up and made for the door. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Meanwhile, he had gone maundering on, in a halting sort of way, and presently let slip a sentence that struck me like a blow between the eyes. Martin Hewitt, Investigator So maundering, I fell forward upon my face, and for twenty-three hours, the living undistinguished from the dead, I slept there. The Purple Cloud "Oh, go to bed, Sylvia; don't sit there maundering over the concert," said her mother, with a good-natured asperity. The Bent Twig He looked at them like a drunken man and maundered in strange, sleepy speech. White Fang You are not a real hard-working novelist; not a practical novelist; so you don't know the temptation to let your characters maunder. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 A never finds out that it is rubbish, but maunders on to the end, trying to believe he's enjoying himself. Sylvie and Bruno While he was maundering on in this way I was, fortunately for my own self-respect, returning to my senses. The Woman in White Its face is toward the world's future; it does not maunder after the flower-decked nymphs and yellow-skirted fays that have forever fled — and good riddance — their haunted springs and tangled thickets. The Poems of Sidney Lanier Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor's maundering. Main Street This is but a dry maundering; however, I am quite unfit - 'I am for action quite unfit Either of exercise or wit.' Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 She did not see the slow sigh with which the girl smothered down whatever hope had risen just then, listened half-attentive as the huckster maundered on. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Apian continued to maunder over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Then he maunders off into the scenery, trusting to high heaven that he is going to blunder against Brownie as a prominent feature of the landscape. The Mountains "You're just doing your part in letting me maunder to you thus." The Ambassadors As I lay against the parapet, wholly wretched and not entirely master of my mind, I could hear my kinsman maundering to himself in an altered and melancholy mood. Merry Men So I drove her into it, and through it, and across, and maundered aloud and chanted my disdain for all the books and schools. John Barleycorn Not a creature to speak to, except, now and then, Clara coming down to maunder and sigh over all she has to do, and my father, who has been thoroughly in a rage about Elliot. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World I don't like him when he goes maundering on about his old Categorical Imperative. Mary Olivier: a Life Where was any call for that confession, about which the soutar had maundered so foolishly? Salted with Fire With such a message to them, a man is a maundering prophet. Weighed and Wanting Some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me. John Barleycorn Many maundering interpretations may be given by the wise, with plentiful loss of labour, while the child who uses them for the necessity of walking in the one path will constantly receive light from them. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. One might in a moment of sweet maundering imagine Nature hiding those sunless dew-drops of the mines in the darkness of a sweet sorrow that the youth of the morning must be so evanescent. There & Back Who'd believe a madwoman, an idiot, a lunatic, a bedlamite, a maniac—a howling, frenzied, gibbering, ranting, raving, driveling, maundering, mooning maniac! The Living Link He always maundered off, interminably, from one thing to another, till his whisky got the best of him and he fell asleep. Roughing It, Part 6. Nor will any go to law, With a maunder for a straw, All which happiness he brags, Is only owing to his rags. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Let me suggest some possible parallels between ourselves and the disciples maundering over their one loaf—with the Bread of Life at their side in the boat. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. "We'll leave them to you as a souvenir," the trench commandant, who was just leaving the dugout with Weixler, laughed in his maundering way. Men in War She maundered down the street on one side—back on the other. Ptomaine Street I should like," he presently pursued, "to be an old genteel pensioner, lodged over there in the palace and spending my days in maundering about these vistas. A Passionate Pilgrim Don’t you remember how Griff used to say she maundered over the text. Chantry House They were overnumerous as I maundered up from where at last the road leaves the valley and makes over a little pass for a place called Schangnau. The Path to Rome It's fighting men we need, not maundering sentimentalists.' Hyacinth If he weren't an A No. 1 dreamer, he'd be too serious to live, but be goes dreaming and maundering along—dreaming that things are about as he would like to have them. The Boss of Little Arcady But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years. A Passionate Pilgrim The revolt against the ancien régime in letters made possible the Ode that is the high-tide mark of modern English inspiration, but it was parodied in page on page of maundering rusticity. Byron Asked where he got the liquor, he maundered out something about a saloon; but none of the places which he usually frequents had seen him that night. The House of the Whispering Pines He would have maundered on, but I seized his arm and led him out of possible hearing of the men. The Mystery He still maundered weakly as I reached the door, but it was not this that detained me at its threshold. The Boss of Little Arcady I am only writing in a vague, maundering, uncritical way, to express sincere sympathy and gratitude, not to exhibit any dissenting powers, if I have any. Memories of Hawthorne They have got their quietus, and they still continue to 'maunder' on with objections long since disposed of. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He was ever a cross-grained censor; we need not mind his maundering, Gods. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 No! they were not, whatever sentimental people may say who maunder about the ages of faith and refresh themselves with other such lackadaisical phrases. The Coming of the Friars When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler It was a half hour before Justine Delande descended to the rooms where the old egoist chafed at the loss of time stolen from the maundering researches on Thibet and the Ten Tribes. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Well, I wont keep you listening to my maundering, when Winifred wants you. The Young Step-Mother I will silence myself without waiting for the usher, or for you, my Areopagite, who have been too considerate, methinks, in letting me maunder on out of bounds all this way. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The Customs officers gave him back his papers with scarcely a glance to spare for them, and had no ears for his maundering, so occupied were they with me, his companion. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Yet one thing more: your fate may be to teach In some suburban school the parts of speech, And, maundering over grammar day by day, Lisp, prattle, drawl, grow childish, and decay. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry The maundering or pert replies of servants; also talk or palaver in order to amuse one intended to be cheated. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue He'd be only too likely to—and go maundering about in this jaunting car and neglect the farm. Parnassus on Wheels He had not had much to drink, but it had been too much for him, and he was in a condition of maundering sentimentality. The Beetle "What nonsense!" rejoined the Elf; "as if any lady could like to hear grandpapa maunder, and Mary scold and scream at the farm people, just like the old peahen." Magnum Bonum All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors How anxiously I listened as hour after hour I maundered about this spot for the tinkling sound of the camels' bells! Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, When the squire, with a maundering voice, drawled out some expression of regret that his daughter's choice had not fallen in another place, Will was able to say that bygones must be bygones. The Belton Estate While the cook maundered on Thomas sat with his dull eyes fixed on the flushed face of Susan. The Secret Passage She sat down on the bed and began to talk of Daniel Dabbs, as she had often done already, in a maundering way. Demos Her father maundered to her for hours at a stretch of the old Mary Carey, at last secure of sympathy and a perfect listener. Sisters I remember Ppt used to maunder, when I came from a great dinner, and DD had but a bit of mutton. The Journal to Stella The ballad gives the probable version; Satchells, when offering as a reason for leaving half the force, lest they should make "noise or din," is maundering. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy I wonder why I have maundered so slowly through the prologue. Rolling Stones The maundering talk went on for more than an hour. Demos "The loveliest woman in England," the old man maundered on. Sisters I hate to buy for her: I am sure she will maunder. The Journal to Stella For fifty times that I have borne with her maundering, I have, at last, once told her the truth; and for that I am accused of want of forbearance! The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Alice was the real attraction, and I was left to my fate, while they were maundering round with that old camera. Jo's Boys From maundering foolishly he had taken to absolute violence, and had to be watched by Frere. For the Term of His Natural Life What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among laurel trees with a wishy-washy school-girl to such fun as this? Barchester Towers To come maundering into His presence when we have nothing particular to say is an insult, upon which we should never presume if we had a petition to offer to any earthly personage. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott My heart sank down as I entered, and wearily there I sat While the chairman strove to end his maunder of this and of that. The Pilgrims of Hope Though of course—Oh, how one does maunder on and to think, to think of the people who are really poor. Howards End Though of course--Oh, how one does maunder on, and to think, to think of the people who are really poor.� Howards End "She had the whitest hands," maundered the Secretary. To Have and to Hold She could not understand how Edward could go on and on maundering over Mrs Basil. The Good Soldier I hate to hear him maunder on about imagination, while he leaves his tenantry to take their chance. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife But Maggie, whom the offer of the crown had not escaped, began to open on that scent with a maundering sort of lecture. Redgauntlet When philosophy has maundered ponderously for a month, telling the individual what he must do, the individual says, in an instant, "I LIKE," and does something else, and philosophy goes glimmering. The Cruise of the Snark Suppose, instead of maundering over them, we reconnoitre and see what WE can do here. The Crusade of the Excelsior The poem maunders on for half a dozen lines, and "loses itself in the sands," like the River Rhine, without coming to any particular point or conclusion. Oxford What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among the trees with a wishy-washy school girl to such fun as this? Barchester Towers The gossipy maundering broke off short; drowned in a wild beast growl. Further Adventures of Lad I declare," he maundered on, half to himself and half to me, "that dog is getting old. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Nevertheless, maunder he must; and he recurred to it in a way so utterly unlike himself that Laetitia stared in his face. The Egoist Up from ships men come, and from waste places and forest and road and garret and cellar to maunder to me in strangely distributed words of the things they have seen and considered. Options A Philistine at some distant table was maundering volubly either about Jerome or Gérôme. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million "A nasty night, mind you," he would maunder on, taking another turn. No Name "And let us get on a little faster," said Blondet; "you are maundering." The Firm of Nucingen If you know lovers when they have not reason to be blissful, you will remember that in this mood of admiring envy they are given to fits of uncontrollable maundering. The Egoist And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you. The Iron Heel Embarrassed, standing, wondering how he could retreat, Babbitt maundered, "Well, I suppose you been having a great trip since we saw you in Zenith." Babbitt No passion had ever touched him, for this was what passion meant; he had survived and maundered and pined, but where had been his deep ravage? The Beast in the Jungle |
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