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

He may, indeed, consider me an intruder in the walks of literature, but I am only a saunterer, and malign nobody who chooses to let me pass….

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the Holy Land.

From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H

He had become a saunterer, and the shop windows had obtained from him an attention which he had never previously bestowed upon them.

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

There is a modicum of natural history, but mostly he reaps the intangible harvest of the poet, the saunterer, the mystic, the super-sportsman.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John