| 单词 | perambulating |
| 例句 | In the middle of this perambulating he showed up in Patuxet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I was just curious if any of the reigning ‘champions’ knew when the first perambulating library appeared in the rural villages of Cumbria County, England.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Fairchild, who created his own choreography, morphs into a monster of delicate, disarming beauty, an innocent perambulating through a world he flounders to understand. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z "It was then reported, that a mad woman was in the habit of disturbing the neighbours, by perambulating the church-yard and other walks, in strange and uncouth dresses," the magazine article added. Why do we wear bedsheets as a ghost costume? A closer look at its creepy, yet practical origins 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z There's the perfection of the rose garden, the tranquillity of the lily-clad boating lake and the perambulating white clouds of the sheep in the fields. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z It was the first day of his retirement and he was puffing on a Cohiba while perambulating down West 55th street. Ta-Ta to ‘Teetering Tabloids’: Keith Kelly Signs Off 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Plain navy stripes, like so many perambulating beach umbrellas? Going to the Max: Dolce & Gabbana 2012-09-23T17:57:26Z Stalked by Catherine’s perambulating ghost, and infused with live music by Ian Ross that feels somehow like earth and air, this is a show with a gloriously untamed spirit. Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z It ends with its perambulating audience gathered in a dank cellar, trying to figure out the code that will open a locked trunk. The Human Comedy; Blood and Gifts; Accomplice 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z It’s a dance that pretends to be just walking: people perambulating in a wide circle with a sinking, drumlike tread. Review: ‘Run Mary Run’ Features Rashida Bumbray at SummerStage 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Scaling Southern California’s tallest peaks provides a purer rush than perambulating its most famous streets, but the streets stick with you. Walking all 25 miles of Sunset Boulevard in a day reminded us why we love L.A. 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s a terse thesis statement for such an expansive, witty, perambulating book. Capitol Hill’s Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore searches Seattle for human connection in sharp new memoir ‘The Freezer Door’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Why would a perambulating soul wish to miss any of it? Opinion | Look Up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Then Simone Zaza brought the house down by mimicking a man perambulating down a walkway constructed of hot coals, broken glass and bricks of Lego, before blazing the ball way over the bar. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Humans begin as one fertilised cell but develop into perambulating structures of a hundred trillion cells of around 300 different varieties. 'Bioprinter' creates bespoke lab-grown body parts for transplant 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z So the owner of the chickens addressed the matter by building a wire fence in her backyard, corralling the perambulating poultry. Midterm madness: the politics of snowmobiles and chickens 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z They are perambulating the streets and visiting every shop that lies in their way, and almost demanding from each their accustomed toll of one cash each. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z On working days let perambulating bands come out for air and exercise, only let them take care that their "air" be always in tune. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 2012-04-02T02:00:24.930Z It seemed to me that the population never slept; they were perambulating the streets chanting "Viva Pio Nono" all night; and, at 8 o'clock this morning, there was the same crowd, with the same excitement. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Are there not as many charming men and women perambulating the rind of the planet as there were in the days when Jane Austen, or Howells, or Turgenev wrote? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Next he anoints with chrism the twelve internal and twelve external wall-crosses, afterwards perambulating the church thrice inside and outside, censing it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Mr. Binney wondered how these latter could walk along so unconcernedly when they might at any corner run straight into the arms of a perambulating Proctor. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z He found that his mother had left her shabby tenement for a place in Richardson’s show troupe, then perambulating the country. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Certain it is that the perambulating pie business in London fell very much into disrepute and contempt for several years before the abolition of the corn-laws and the advent of free trade. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z On some occasions, however, they gave the town a lesson of humility by perambulating on their own legs. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z If you want to know what drink can do for a man, I recommend you to go and look at your husband--there is a drunkard, if you like; he's like a perambulating sponge. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z When the cat had been sufficiently tortured it was dismissed, to its evident satisfaction, to the basket which served as green-room to the perambulating theatre. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z In perambulating the city one pleasant evening about sunset, he found that the street in which he was walking terminated abruptly against a mass of wretched tenements, apparently the lurking places of vice and beggary. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z They seem to regard themselves as perambulating shop window models on which to hang things, and if you take away that subject from their conversation they are bankrupt. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Then at length, with Khartoum hung round with meat and looking like a perambulating butcher's shop, we move on again. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z At this moment some perambulating singers came into the street. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Because some of the perambulating bands play very nearly in tune. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z And right away at the back a beautiful garden was disclosed, in which happy young couples were seen perambulating arm-in-arm, talking soft nothings to each other. The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z To tell the truth the Spirit of Art was rather weary of perambulating the streets of London—not even the advertisements of Buffalo Bill on the hoardings gave her lasting satisfaction. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z Now as a vigilant historian of the social scene this matter of the gallant relations of traffic policemen to perambulating ladies of somewhat fashionable, even patrician aspect, I find highly interesting. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z One night he was by an oversight locked out of his house, and had to pass the night perambulating the streets. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Any perambulating mesmeriser can show you scores of strapping, fellows, reduced by a single wave of his hand to the unhappy condition of the young Prince whose lower extremities were stone. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Presently she heard his steps returning; he was perambulating a beat. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Me to go off into the bush for months and rustle new diggings, and then tell a lot of perambulating carrion like you where I struck it! The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z My perambulating box of tricks and petrol is out of action somewhere in the hills. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z That is more than enough to secure the enmity of the perambulating mass of vanity which we know by the name of Julia Darrow. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The history of another of Mr. Howard's erections on Yonge Street, which we are perambulating, illustrates the rapid advance and expansion of architectural ideas amongst us. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Agriculture in itself holds the farmer apart, and preserves him in lonely ignorance to be the victim of the perambulating money-lender. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Next in order was the arrival of Jeff Davis and the perambulating government of the Confederacy, to tarry a few days in Richmond before proceeding to Washington. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z William’s surprise and perplexity at seeing this perambulating forest approaching him can well be imagined. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z I remember perambulating round the ground, taking in the performance of my idol from as many angles as possible. Steven Finn: How watching Glenn McGrath spurred me on 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z He resumed his pacing to and fro, sometimes perambulating the studio to vary his movement. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel The chieftains of progress, perambulating the ground with an air of triumph, bestowed friendly nods of recognition on all sides, and condescendingly engaged in conversation with some of the rank and file. The Progressionists, and Angela. A woman in his eyes was a sort of perambulating store-house of cake, crackers, apples, sugar, etc.; only his love for children was disinterested. Life on the Stage I have merely tried to rehabilitate the pariahs of the great mercantile world by reviving the lost art of perambulating publicity. H. R. He scampered out of one railway into another like a rabbit perambulating a warren, and was the wonder of the brokers and the glory of the Stock Exchange. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 What else causes the perambulating dealers in artificial spiders suspended from threads to command so great a patronage from the juvenile population of Paris and London? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Pratt choked; he felt blind; then the railings seemed to be dancing with the trees, and the little children to be transformed into cherubs, attended by angels, with triumphant perambulating cars. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One In a little while he retired from business, the shop in Fleet Street was shut up, the Reasoner reasoned no more—Mr. Holyoake ceased perambulating. The Religious Life of London With the same end in view, probably, he was taking nightly writing-lessons in his mother-tongue from one of the perambulating schoolmasters who circulate in the Italian colony, peddling education cheap in lots to suit. The Children of the Poor Listening to their scraps of conversation Smaly gathered that the Wigs held some stranger captive, and that this prisoner lived in a perambulating prison which travelled about the country. The City Curious In perambulating the streets at this period, what a number of little ragamuffins I observe trundling their hoops! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Whether promenading the shady walks of a wood or perambulating the dusty streets of the city, Leixner constantly thinks about the works he has in hand. Methods of Authors For three months, gentlemen, all my spare time was employed in perambulating Broadway, and standing at the entrance of the theatre, in hopes of meeting my deliverer. The History and Records of the Elephant Club While perambulating the lower part of the house, he noticed some bales, containing Minghal Khan's possessions, which had been laid against the wall of the compound, in readiness for instant removal. Barclay of the Guides The women walk together on one side, all dressed in white; they are so taciturn, and so perfectly placid, that they might be taken for perambulating ghosts. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun Not that I was; but I was perambulating the country for an object and determined to accomplish it. Ancestors A Novel She invents dialogues most easily when she is perambulating the room. Methods of Authors Lecturing has become quite a fashionable science—and now, instead of using the old style phrases for illustrating facts, we call travelling preachers perambulating showmen, and floating politicians, lecturers. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes He appeared mildly conscious that he had performed a solemn duty in making a perambulating tailor's block of himself, and ready to receive any amount of feminine admiration without resistance. A Noble Woman So far from taking an interest in the great events of that period, he devoted himself entirely to literary studies, and improved his time by perambulating Italy. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 In the vicinity of the cemetery gathered many colored marchandes, their 369 heads and shoulders draped in shawls and fichus of bright, diversified hues; before them, perambulating booths with baskets of molasses candy or pain-patate. The Strollers This bill is a blow aimed at the drive-well patent agents, and others of that ilk who are perambulating the country to the annoyance of farmers. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Clara wanted to touch him, to make certain that he was really a man and not a mere perambulating mind, and she laid her hand on his arm. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists He was then little more than a soft, fluffy, black-and-white ball, awkwardly perambulating on four absurdly bowed legs. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys You are a perambulating dry plate upon which outside objects produce their images. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Yet here have I been perambulating the Public Garden for an indefinite period, without seeing the first trace of a field-mouse or a shrew. Birds in the Bush The municipal administration was therefore obliged, especially in populous quarters, to tolerate perambulating peddlers, who carried their wares in hand carts. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Like living syringes, these heads were; perambulating bulbs filled with some defensive or offensive liquid to be squirted out at the owner's will. The Raid on the Termites As a perambulating interpreter of literature, ancient as well as modern, this has especially been borne in upon me. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations This was my first visit to the latter city, and I enjoyed perambulating through its streets. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 They were all used up before my perambulating show reached Vicksburg, Miss., and I was a confirmed disciple of the blood theory. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Each horse and mule resembled a perambulating haystack, for it was loaded with two big sacks filled with corn on each side and as many bundles of fodder as could be tied on with ropes. A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. Soon they were back in the perambulating crowd, chattering, laughing, listening to the band upon the river. A Sheaf of Corn In his own domain he was as Jove on Olympus, and when he moved abroad he was a perambulating reminder of the strong arm of the law. The Rapids He was constantly on exhibition; M. Moronval showed him at theatres and concerts, and along the boulevards, reminding one of those perambulating advertisements that are to be seen in all large cities. Jack 1877 At first glance you wouldn't have taken Smith for a perambulating national bank, with a wheelbarrow of spending-money every month. At Good Old Siwash The land of Kumaoun was the scene and with him was a camp which included twenty-five hundred persons without counting a perambulating army of provision carriers. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V Sometimes she was dancing gracefully like an embodied zephyr on the floor; frequently walking in mid-air; occasionally perambulating the ceiling of the cave. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains On each occasion when the lass was seen perambulating, The little quadruped likewise was there a gallivating. The Book of Humorous Verse It is better by far to be the butt of jokes concerning "walking shoestrings" or "perambulating umbrella cases" than to waddle through life burdened to death with an excessive amount of flesh. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture “Job Trotter,” thin plant o’ ooman natur; something between a servant and a friend to Jingle; a kind of perambulating hydraulic. Pickwickian Studies Such an observer, however, on looking but a little more intently, will see the higher vertebrata as perambulating vegetables planted upside down. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin When I hear these sounds, so strangely different, and look at the speakers, I fancy them a living polyglot of the languages, a perambulating picture-gallery illustrative of national variety in form and feature. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists, Socialists, etc., all had their perambulating orators. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 The kaleidoscopic patterns sorted themselves and turned into a circle of perambulating couples, and Gay and her partner passed the two men in the doorway. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Father and mother, And three little brothers, And all rambling aimless, like little perambulating pebbles scattered in the garden, Not knowing each other from bits of earth or old tins. Tortoises As I was perambulating slowly the border of Loch Ness I met a tall, gaunt-looking man, who eyed me rather suspiciously, and stretched forth his hands in the attitude of one interrupting a stray sheep. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Those people, with their vast memory, are like perambulating libraries; they instruct, they amuse, they edify. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance "Why, it is enough to raise the dead," exclaimed a solitary traveler, a stranger in town, perambulating a neighboring bluff. Hubert's Wife A Story for You Mrs. Hemphill, Rachel's mother, also perambulating through with great curiosity, and three small children clinging to her skirts, pronounced it "fine enough, goodness knows, but wait till you see them teachers!" Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls I do like perambulating London streets by gaslight—of course with a gentleman to take care of one. Kate Coventry An Autobiography "The Honourable Member for Bletherum was at that time perambulating the district with very great activity, and, I need not say, with very great ability." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Where he hides himself when winter, dark and drear, approaches, I’m sure I cannot tell; but I’ve never seen him then perambulating the streets. She and I, Volume 1 Label it—"Sometimes he would join the crowd, watching an exhibition of perambulating puppets." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 It also includes perambulating the shrines of departed saints. The Faith of Islam After perambulating the town till weary, we came to the bridge of boats, sixteen hundred and sixty-six feet long, and which connects Mayence with Cassel, a strongly fortified place, where the railroad depot is located. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland He passed much of his time in perambulating the aisles of the House, holding short conferences with leading Republicans, and casting frequent glances into the ladies' gallery. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis There are times when that boy appears to be nothing but one frightful, perambulating cold! Cape Cod Folks In perambulating about the town, in the course of the day, which was very hot, I got affected by a coup de soleil, which gave me a violent fever and head-ache. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy He had to be wheeled from Committee Room to Committee Room in a perambulating chair, and was allowed to remain seated when addressing Committees. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland Soon after dawn children possess the town—bootblacks, paper-sellers, perambulating drapers' shops; all children crying their wares noisily. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Contrary to the Vidame’s wish, Mrs. Brown-Smith, in an ulster and a veil, insisted on perambulating the platform, buying the whole of Mr. Hall Caine’s works as far as they exist in sixpenny editions. The Disentanglers In perambulating this town, one cannot but be surprised at the absence of Fountains--those charming pieces of architecture and of street embellishment. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Towards evening I heard her footsteps perambulating the long passage, and softly turned the key in the lock without Gladys noticing the movement. Uncle Max There was another scribe of quite an elegant sort: a perambulating tailor’s dummy; a young man, well under thirty. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland But it does not much matter; it is enough to say that he was caught, about three o'clock, perambulating the streets, considerably the worse for liquor, and not in the best society. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One What struck me on the ride up through the city was the perambulating bath. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') She marched across the yard and addressed the "perambulating merchant." The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week I had never before seen callers on their first visit perambulating the room like polar bears, or throwing out curious feelers everywhere. Uncle Max In a moment or two all the visitors were perambulating about the garden. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town He left the perambulating candle to itself, and proceeded to the inner hall by the light of his own electric lamp. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Meantime no mocking of that perambulating and capricious instrument! Children of the Market Place In a high state of enjoyment the gypsies dispersed in order to prepare for the forthcoming festivity, and Chaldea, weary but victorious, stood alone by the steps of the caravan, which was her perambulating home. Red Money The slain of battlefields were at least motionless; they did not gape and grin at you with the dreadful humour of these perambulating dead. Out To Win The Story of America in France A perambulating Circus has pitched its tent on the Village Green! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 Mr. Bonbon was the envied owner of a perambulating exhibition: he counted among his riches a Spotted Boy, a New Zealand Cannibal, and a Madagascar Cow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 We spent several days rather agreeably, perambulating the ranges of hills between Kilfademore and Templenoe, embracing a district about fifteen miles square. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 As they sauntered along, they came to a group of half-starved, perambulating performers, who were giving an entertainment to a crowd of bystanders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 "Do you think I am like you, perambulating streets trying to make conquests?" she said, with a smile. Gordon Keith But it was vain to think of this resource, as William had no voice, and knew no hymns, while I had no means of access to a perambulating harmonium. In the Wrong Paradise People sometimes stop and hold conversations across the street, and perambulating nurses, lingering at the shop windows, hold up the traffic. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 The only perambulating resident was very drunk and manifested a desire to embrace me, but as I did not know his language and could not claim relationship I declined the honor. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life And here let me remark, that I am an enthusiastic admirer of the perambulating gentleman who outwitted the pastie purchaser; in fact, "I go solid for the Simonian." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Mr Chucks, the boatswain, called it "the first lieutenant's perambulating spitting-pan." Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 How strange that we, perambulating dust, Should be the vessels of eternal fire, That such unfading passion of desire Should be within our fading bodies thrust. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala It was a sunny, dustless apartment, with snow-white muslins, white enamel, and a frieze of grotesque Noah's Ark animals perambulating round the wall. The "Goldfish" Think of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton in the train of George Francis Train, perambulating the country in favor of the ballot in Kansas. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses And he added angrily: "She seems to regard me as a sort of cicerone, a perambulating, vocal Baedeker!" The Purple Heights In one part of the square was a court of justice having three judges, and their inferior officers were employed in perambulating the market, preserving order, and inspecting the various articles. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time When I called on Mrs. Jones to furnish her share of the perambulating schoolmaster's provisions, she remarked, "I can eat you, but I can't sleep you, because I have no spare bedroom." The Gentleman from Everywhere Within the town the lamps were being lit in the booths, the folks busy marketing, and the watchmen already perambulating the city and crying the hours at the street corners. Red Axe The Rebels wisely considered that a perambulating Governor was not entitled to great respect, and were particularly anxious to see the proclamations of His Excellency issued from the established capital. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Bordeaux is a queer old town, with its innumerable soldiers and priests perambulating in all directions. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 All the little villages had their daguerreotype shops except one, and there the deficiency was supplied by a perambulating artist in a tented cart. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Trade is flourishing, and as we walked through the principal streets we noticed the well-stocked shops, to say nothing of the perambulating pedlars. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Bishop, mentally perambulating among paths of peace, was altogether swallowed up in absence of mind. Little Dorrit The editor knows that half the people who pretend to be filled to overflowing with the grace of God are only perambulating pillars of pure Gall. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Twice a day, he had to traverse a park frequented by perambulating nursemaids, and he became romantically involved with one of them. The Blue Lagoon: a romance They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us. Before Adam Walking—riding—yachting—I suppose the most momentous conversations of my life took place while perambulating the great court at Trinity. The Voyage Out It means mud and dust; it means unpaved streets pervaded by perambulating pigs and contemplative cows, and rendered still more rural in its aspect by the gambolings of frolicsome kids around grave goats. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 Was permanently in evidences—or wasn't it, rather, in eclipse?—as a shadowy parasitic entity perambulating the hinterland of his domestic life. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The dandy of the clubs had become a perambulating mass of rags. Run to Earth A Novel Miss Pew was engaged in receiving people, and ushering them to their seats, always assisted by Miss Dulcibella—an image of limp gracefulness—and the three governesses—all as stiff as perambulating black-boards. The Golden Calf At night they are patronized to such an extent by streetwalkers seeking custom, that the city press has styled them "perambulating assignation houses." The Secrets of the Great City One of these was to proceed to Tortola, and join a band of strolling players that were perambulating the islands, and attracting admiration, if not money, by the excellence of their dramatic representations. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The project of becoming a perambulating bookseller, hawker of his own poetical ware, came upon Clare in a startling manner. The Life of John Clare When the perambulating monks have returned to their place, while the sprinkler continues his duties, the monks repeat the words: "We put our trust in the sweet dew kings, Bodhisattvas and Mahâsattvas." Buddhism and Buddhists in China All night parties in disguise were perambulating the different wards, watching each other's tactics; masks, wigs, false noses, gentles in livery coats, men in female attire, a silent carnival of manoeuvre, vigilance, anxiety, and trepidation. Coningsby He says that perambulating it hand in hand with another person, the two are sure to remain friends for life. Old Calabria His criticism was based on the rather violent assumption "that, as a literary people, we are one vast perambulating humbug." Poets of the South It was the greatest fault he committed in his whole career of perambulating bookseller, and fatal, in a sense, to his future prospects. The Life of John Clare Most I met in the interior looked, a little distance off, like perambulating masses of dirty rags; but all, even the filthiest and most ragged, carried a bright, sharp tulwar. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán In perambulating the streets in search of his house, I was pleased to see but one shop open. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States In 1858, however, this 'perambulating system' having proved expensive and inconvenient, the Queen was asked to designate a permanent abode for the Legislature. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace, nor with any settled purpose. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia To Bailey, his strong-minded relative was a perpetual menace, a sort of perambulating yellow peril, and the fact that she often alluded to him as a worm consolidated his distaste for her. The Coming of Bill His attitude towards a member of the peerage was that of the terrier to the perambulating cat. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories His children could not be educated, because they were wanted, almost from their infancy, to help in keeping the family from starving, as stonepickers, or perambulating scarecrows. Lectures and Essays But we were too sure of our whereabouts to give up the game so easily, and after some more perambulating we struck the fence. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria Then she set out on her day's work, crossing the river, and perambulating the Latin Quarter from the Rue Saint Jacques to the Rue Dauphine, and even to the Luxembourg. The Fat and the Thin It was in fact the real guardian of the night, who was carefully perambulating his beat, in innocent unconsciousness of any offence. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the bounds of the parish on Whit-monday, when they have their posteriors bumped against the stones marking the boundaries, in order to fix them in their memory. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue My dear Dohrn, I suppose that you are now back in Naples, perambulating the Chiaja, and looking ruefully on the accumulation of ashes on the foundations of the aquarium! Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 In the fall, a perambulating skeleton, he came back over the Pass in a blizzard, with a rag of shirt, tattered overalls, and a handful of raw flour. Revolution, and Other Essays Panamanian girls gaudily dressed and suggesting to the nostrils perambulating drug-stores shuttle back and forth with their perfumed dandies. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers This last fact I make mine by perambulating a certain great street every three months, and observing how name succeeds to name as wave to wave. It Is Never Too Late to Mend On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day. Ulysses Who ever saw such a ridiculous structure as this headdress, that makes me look like a perambulating castle on a chessboard? Joseph II. and His Court In the far distance were disappearing two huge balls of colour, orange and yellow, for all the world like perambulating poppies of cyclopean breed. Revolution, and Other Essays Never had he been more happy and triumphant; and Dr. May used to accuse him of perambulating the lower streets snuffing the deodorized air. The Trial The last survivor of these perambulating English giants lingered at Salisbury, where an antiquary found him mouldering to decay in the neglected hall of the Tailors’ Company about the year 1844. The Golden Bough "It is not true," thundered Mr. Wilberfloss, hopping to avoid a perambulating cat. Psmith, Journalist What kind of improvised sovereigns are these who have instituted perambulating brigandage? The French Revolution - Volume 2 But still the heavy steps perambulating the apartment over my head were distinctly heard amid the roar and fury of the elements. Redgauntlet He was a perambulating skeleton, and could just drag along; but he got there. Lost Face You go through life like a perambulating prayer-wheel, a friend of nobody but the righteous, and the righteous are those who agree with you as to what is right. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii Scarcely can I call him a perambulating skeleton, because he is too weak to walk. The Mutiny of the Elsinore This was the favorite amusement; and after breakfast, on a morning ten days after Joan and Ashe had formed their compact, the terraces were full of perambulating couples. Something New These living advertisements, these perambulating articles, soon set up Madame Schontz as the most agreeable woman to be found in the borderland which separates the thirteenth arrondissement from the twelve others. Beatrix "As a literary people," you wrote, "we are one vast perambulating humbug." Letters to Dead Authors We know that when the shades of night fall she will be perambulating the streets, and he like a beast of prey will be watching not far away. London's Underworld Next, after this perambulating skeleton, came the weirdest creature I have ever beheld. The Mutiny of the Elsinore A wild laugh, almost a howl, disturbed the talk of the most adjacent of the perambulating relations. Something New You are a chimney, a living volcano, a perambulating smoke-stack, and you are a perfect disgrace, Martin dear, you know you are.” Martin Eden He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms. The Night-Born She proceeded, gazing down the while at the perambulating George, to give it thought. Something New |
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