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
With these words he took leave of the saunterer, who would have delayed his retreat, by calling to him aloud, that he had not yet described the situation of his castle.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
It is very common in the gardens about Colombo, and its size, and the transparent talc-like spots in its wings, cannot fail to strike even the most careless saunterer.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent
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 William Beckford
Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.
From Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis
