itinerate
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After the short, with Hall playing an itinerate gambler, made it into the Sundance Film Festival, Anderson expanded it into his feature debut, 1997’s “Hard Eight,” which catapulted Hall’s career.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Fired from that job when new owners bought the Minneapolis station, the itinerate newsman landed as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune in the hour-long series that bore his name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
The fact is worth noting that from 1849–1857 arguments on the roundness or flatness of the earth did itinerate.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
His strong suit was his itinerate susceptibility; but his main anchorage was his better five-fifths.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
Vagabonds, wandering quacks, and itinerate keepers of animals came to pass Sundays and other non-working days in parties of pleasure.
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
Both were energetic country parsons, and both itinerated; but Berridge went over a wider field than Grimshaw.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
For many years she itinerated as a preacher, and at the great age of one hundred and three her health is still vigorous.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
Bishop Kavenaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in introducing me to the Louisville Conference in 1858, told them that though a Presbyterian I had "out itinerated the itineracy itself."
From A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
Long before this time the Rev. R. Lechler, of the Basel Missionary Society, had widely itinerated in the neighbourhood of Swatow and the surrounding regions.
From A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor
For instance, it is the very objection urged by Celsus, that Christians were but parallel to the credulous victims of jugglers or of devotees, who itinerated through the pagan population.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
A few years before he had entered upon his new life of itinerating among the ranches, there was a contest between the cowboys to decide who among them was the most skilful rider.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by John Maclean
The same paper tells of another “South American” fraud, 60,000 bottles of which were said to be sold in Detroit in a few weeks, by an itinerating vendor.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
After struggling with many difficulties in obtaining the means of education, he qualified himself for the duties of an itinerating tutor.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Wesley's opinion however remained unaltered, that it would have been better in every way for Fletcher to have joined him in itinerating.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
Some winters were spent in itinerating in hill districts from which the people did not go to the Bhabhur.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy