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
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 John Burroughs
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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Thither, too, comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that wearisome attendant himself, and thither come both males and females, who, upon a different principle, desire to make themselves double.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
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
