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

No more than this would the casual saunterer along that unfrequented footpath through the plantations meet or see.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

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

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 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)