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
He would be able to remain the itinerate tinkerer; designing and building the most inane creations that regularly had little purpose beyond satisfying technical creativity.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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
Nor was there a whipsaw in the whole country round with which to work, the itinerate sawyer having gone on with his property to another creek.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
All the world knows how much he has talked upon this particular topic; how he has itinerated on its behalf; how he has perspired under its business.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
As a flame of fire, Fisher itinerated all over California and Oregon, kindling a blaze of revival in almost every place he touched.
From California Sketches, Second Series by O. P. Fitzgerald
As on the way I itinerated, A rural person I obviated, Interrogating time’s transitation, And of the passage demonstration.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
In 1856 he was appointed to Alsace, and had his station at Strassburg, whence he itinerated to France and the Rhine provinces, and met everywhere acceptance among Jews and Christians.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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
The money is made there which is spent here; and when our itinerating Legislature comes round, Quebec is very gay, and considerably excited.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
He lived the life of an itinerating Teacher, declaring to any who cared to listen the things concerning the Kingdom of GOD.
From Religious Reality by A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
Between the driver, who sat on the same plane with his feet on the pole, and the mattress were piled the boxes and baskets containing the necessaries of life required on the itinerating picnic.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
I think she is a "Methodist sister" in the habit of itinerating with her brother, a minister.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
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
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