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 approved of Boehler's plan to itinerate among the plantations and promised that both his own and Schulius' salaries should be paid him, that he might be supplied for traveling expenses.
From The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries
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
In 1789 he quitted the seafaring life, and commenced to itinerate for subscribers to enable him to publish his poems.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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
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
The South Wales clergy who regularly itinerated were dying out; the majority of those remaining itinerated but irregularly, and were most of them against the change.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
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
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
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
That there is much bustle in the streets, I can see by the obstacles my vehicle encounters at every step, itinerating peddlers, carts heavily laden, mandarins and their noisy following.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
Under the itinerating system, the United States are divided into conferences, districts, and circuits.
From Off-Hand Sketches A Little Dashed with Humor by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Although the meeting houses were only few and far between, and churches and chapels were extremely rare, the most illiterate of the sects were itinerating, hither and thither, with wonderful success.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
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