Use wander in a sentence
Sentences ending with wander
- That's what I wander. [11]
- That is the trouble with Mrs. Eddy when she sets out to explain an over-large exhibit: the minute you think the light is bursting upon you the candle goes out and your mind begins to wander. [5]
- Then she went on to tell me in full all that had befallen my cousin until he had gone forth to wander. [10]
- The northern part of Appledore Island is an interesting place to wander. [4]
- But I feel lonely, very lonely, in the pages through which I wander. [6]
- She wanted to have a home and not to wander. [11]
- But we wander. [4]
Short sentences using wander
- Here they wander less extensively. [5]
More example sentences with the word wander in them
- Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
- Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
- Everywhere in the world where the Romanys wander they will rejoice to hear that a Druse rules us still. [11]
- Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
- In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. [5]
- He straightened himself where he sat, and did not let his eyes wander from the young lady's face. [11]
- From the time we left the tavern to wander by the river I managed to be a good deal alone with Mrs. Falchion. [11]
- At night she was restless, and would get up and wander to Elsie's apartment and look for her and call her by name. [6]
- Letting his gaze wander over the camp, he added casually, "I see that they have got a few mortars and howitzers since yesterday. [9]
- She used to wander off and spend whole days in the country, and come back after sunset with her arms full. [9]
- Perhaps you sometimes wander in through the iron gates of the Copp's Hill burial-ground. [6]
- He had to wander far and seek with diligence, but he succeeded. [5]
- He liked to wander dreamily in lonely paths, with his large, dark eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
- I used to wander among those rigid corpses, and peer into their austere faces, by the hour. [5]
- He began to wander about; and there grew upon his senses strange delights and reeling agonies. [11]
- Here I wander upon the stage of mortality, since the world hath turned against me. [5]
- So he used to wander to the neighborhood of the Lei, evenings, with his Zither and "Express his Longing in low Singing," as Garnham says. [5]
- With beggar's staff to wander forth, Imploring alms from spot to spot. [10]
- My idea was to disguise myself as a freeman of peasant degree and wander through the country a week or two on foot. [5]
- The columns rose to a gigantic height, the eye seemed to wander through immeasurable space, and the air breathed by the worshippers was heavy with the fragrance of Kyphi and incense, and the odors which arose from the laboratory attached to the temple. [10]
- We too will throw ourselves into the holiday whirlpool disguised, I as a satyr, and you as a young faun or something of the kind; we will drain cups, wander round the city and enjoy all that is enjoyable. [10]
- We wander on through the huge and massive gates of entrance, between the ranks of sacred animals. [10]
- Will she pass through it unharmed, or wander from her path, and fall over one of those fearful precipices which lie before her? [6]
- It was as though a power stronger than herself had ordered her not to wander far from where the Romany claimant of herself awaited his fate. [11]
- A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath, leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving them to wander as they will. [4]
- O love, by the light of thine eyes We will fare over-sea; We will be As the silver-winged herons that rest By the shallows, The shallows of sapphire stone; No more shall we wander alone. [11]
- But why didn't the letther come to his name, I wander now? [11]
- Mr. Galton adds that such animals are rare and valuable; and if many were born they would soon be eliminated, as lions are always on the look-out for the individuals which wander from the herd. [1]
- Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
- It means that somebody has got to stay on watch and steer this thing the same as he would a ship, or she'll wander around and go wherever the wind wants her to. [5]
- I fancied I saw his eyes wander among the ladies, and not marking her he crossed over to where I stood disconsolate before the fireplace. [9]
- Or does her sad spirit wander afar toward the hunting-grounds whither her brave Gobbler-of-the- Lightnings is gone? [5]
- Come under my roof and make it bright once more,--share my life with me,--or I shall give the halls of the old mansion to the bats and the owls, and wander forth alone without a hope or a friend! [6]
- On leaving the river bank I had borne to the left, so as to be sure to strike either the clearing or the road, and not wander off into the measureless forest. [4]
- There must be other things besides aerolites that wander from their own spheres to ours; and when we speak of celestial sweetness or beauty, we may be nearer the literal truth than we dream. [6]
- Down to the opaline lips of the sea Wander the lost ones, fallen but mighty, Stretching out hands, crying, "Turn unto me, O Aphrodite! [11]
- If he does not change in this respect he will wander further and further from the law of the Lord, and imperil his soul, for dangers surround him on all sides like roaring lions. [10]
- I am glad Miss Neron has fed me, for there is no telling what iniquity I might wander into on an empty stomach--I mean, an empty mind. [5]
- Nancy's eyes would meet mine across the little table, and often our gaze would wander over the pastures below, lucent green in the level evening light, to the darkening woods beyond, gilt-tipped in the setting sun. [9]
- Whithersoever thy nation may wander, thou art to follow. [10]
- The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. [5]
- And yet another matter for your ear alone: You will be the wife of a noblehearted man, but mind you, he has long been free to wander whithersoever he would. [10]
- Rather would he lose his life as a rebel, or wander an exile through the world and seek far from home a wider field for deeds of prowess, than put his free neck under the feet of the foe. [10]
- How could I look at the Bodleian Library, or wander beneath its roof, without recalling the lines from "The Vanity of Human Wishes"? [6]
- It is not like most rivers, beautiful to the sight, bestowing fertility in its course; not one that the eye loves to dwell upon as it sweeps along, nor can you wander upon its banks, or trust yourself without danger to its stream. [5]
- If this were lighted from above, a person or persons might pass their days there without attracting attention from the household, and wander where they pleased at night,--to Copp's-Hill burial-ground, if they liked,--I said to myself, laughing, and pulling the bed-clothes over my head. [6]
- But now a light came wavering toward her, looking like a shining bird flying slowly, or a hell-hound, with glowing eyes, and at the sight it seemed to her impossible to wander on all alone. [10]
- It is there, it is here, it must roam and roam, And wander from shore to shore, Till I travel the hills and bring it home, And enter and close my door-- Row along, row along home, ci, ci! [11]
- It is there, it is here, it must roam and roam, And wander from shore to shore, Till I go forth and bring it home, And enter and close my door Row along, row along home, ci ci! [11]
- Non omnis moriar is a pleasant thought to one who has loved his poor little planet, and will, I trust, retain kindly recollections of it through whatever wilderness of worlds he may be called to wander in his future pilgrimages. [6]
- I never wander into any corner of the country but I find that an agent has been there before me, and many of that community have read the book. [5]
- One could wander in it from Pompeii to Japan, from India to Versailles, from Greece to the England of the Tudors, from the Alhambra to colonial Salem. [4]
- We wander forlorn in a lack-lustre landscape. [6]
- The first lines, I think, ran thus: "'Let others envy Caesar's lot; To wander through Britannia's dales And be snowed up in Scythian vales Is Caesar's taste--I'd rather not? [10]
- I know that I am wasting the time that thou dost devote to thy family, and I remember thy saying once that here in Thebes thou wert like a pack-Horse with his load taken off, and free to wander over a green meadow. [10]
- Popular sovereignty, by his own words, does not pertain to the few persons who wander upon the public domain in violation of law. [7]
- The sun darting his cheerful rays into the room, awoke her; and now there remained but to take leave of the poor schoolmaster and wander forth once more. [12]
- If they confined him closely, and kept a strict guard upon him, they might hold him prisoner, but if he could by any means escape, he would surely wander back to that place, or die upon the road. [12]
- If we forced her to take part in any entertainment, she would wander among the guests totally uninterested in everything that was passing. [10]
- The latter turned her own away, and let them wander over the other scholars. [6]
- Susanne Schindler--that was her name--was the daughter of a respectable notary's clerk, who was obliged to wander about the world a great deal, and perished in Hungary just as she reached womanhood. [10]
- In the day-time he would wander about as if looking for something, and in the night they often heard him calling Nitetis. [10]
- He had spent happy years here in the peace of his simple home, and now must again set forth and wander on and on, with nothing before his eyes save an uncertain goal, at the end of a long, toilsome road. [10]
- The organist, Wilhelm, had long since finished playing in the church, but did not wander out into the fields with companions of his own age, for he liked to use such days for longer excursions, in which walking was out of the question. [10]
- How delightful it had been to let his thoughts wander to his heart's content. [10]
- His face would grow more serious as I scanned my Virgil in a faltering voice, and as he descanted on a passage my eye would wander out over the green trees and fields to the glistening water. [9]
- I wander far From Thee among the haunts of men, Most like some lone, faint, flickering star Gone from its place, nor knoweth when The sun shall give it shining dole Lord! [11]
- But we wander from the point. [5]
- But I wander from the point. [5]
- But I wander from my theme. [5]
- Three big cats--very friendly loafers; they wander all over the ship; the white one follows the chief steward around like a dog. [5]
- To wander through forest and field with the aged head of her family, assist her mother in housekeeping, and nurse the sick poor in the village, had hitherto been the joy and duty of her life. [10]
- Yet do my eyes not linger long on the lordly pair; they wander down the long train of Knights wherein he is coming, though among the last. [10]
- Again and again did Kaid's eye wander over David's head. [11]
- In those miserable days he used to wander all over The Mountain in his restless endeavor to seek some relief for inward suffering in outward action. [6]
- Our thoughts wander constantly to the practical concerns of life, and refuse to dwell upon things that seem vague and unreal. [5]
- Then get yourself carried by some ship's captain across the Red Sea, and wander up and down the Egyptian coast. [10]
- Go away--for I cannot refuse you the kiss, and yet I would not wander restless, and without a soul! [10]
- So there were broad expanses on two sides at least, for my imagination to wander over. [6]
- If anything can bring back youth, it is a day of certain sunshine and a bit of unexplored country ahead, with a whole day in which to wander in it without a care or a responsibility. [4]
- Philip now knew beyond doubt that he was the subject of debate, for all the time that the Duke in a low tone, half cordial, half querulous, spoke to the new-comer, the latter let his eyes wander curiously towards Philip. [11]
- And I actually believe that, in time, you will be free from priggishness, and become a brilliant conversationalist; and--suppose we wander on to our proper places in the scene. [11]
- Let us wander barefoot through the world, rather than linger here. [12]
- Here the Distract Attorney arose and said, "Your Honor, I must positively object to letting the witness wander off into all these irrelevant details. [5]
- Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture,--these are vast fields, into which one may wander away, and never be seen more. [4]
- I heard it approach the door --pass out without moving bolt or lock--and wander away among the dismal corridors, straining the floors and joists till they creaked again as it passed--and then silence reigned once more. [5]
- They are then, also, compelled to wander much, and, as I was assured in Australia, their infants perish in large numbers. [1]
- When he has a spare hour at his disposal, let him drop in at the Museum, and wander among its books and its various collections. [6]
- Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: At nighttime in the moon's fair glow How sweet, as fancies wander free, To feel that in this world there's one Who still is thinking but of thee! [2]
- It was like a foreigner-- and excusable in a foreigner--to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. [5]
- Will you quit a father's house with this debased wretch, without a place to lay his distracted head; going up and down the country, with every novel object that many chance to wander through this region. [5]
- So he grew a beard, put on coloured glasses, disguised himself a little in other ways, then took a fictitious name, and went off to wander about the earth in peace. [5]
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