saunterer

Example Sentences

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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

Luckily I met no saunterer: the gay vagabonds, it seemed, were all at the assembly, as happy as billiards and chit-chat could make them. 

From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by Beckford, William

His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed.

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles

Unable to make anything of its meaning, the saunterer put it in her pocket, and, dismissing the matter from her mind, went on by the by-path which led to the back of the mill. 

From The Trumpet-Major by Hardy, Thomas

I will confess that there was a time when I could have loved that career as a saunterer in West End streets.

From Hurricane Island by Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)