Use wandered in a sentence
Sentences ending with wandered
- But the valet was with the Emperor, and so he went to his master and told him where he had unexpectedly wandered. [10]
- But the well-known phrase, belonging to the pugilist rather than to the priest, brought me back from the ideal world into which my imagination had wandered. [6]
- I suppose the Missouri in like manner hates the Mississippi for diluting with its limpid, but insipid current the rich reminiscences of the varied soils through which its own stream has wandered. [6]
- Once as she crossed a broken, bare mountain of Roumania she had seen a wild ass perched upon a high summit gazing, as it were, over the wide valley, where beneath, among the rocks, other wild asses wandered. [11]
- No, Mr. Worthington could think of no better subject on this Birthday of Independence than a recapitulation of the creed of our forefathers, from which we had so far wandered. [9]
- He came out and sat down in Stephen's chair, striking the newspaper in his hand, and they feared at first that his Mind had wandered. [9]
Short sentences using wandered
- You wandered from your course. [5]
- The horses had wandered away. [13]
- I wandered into the club. [4]
Sentences containing wandered two or more times
- Her eyes showed for a moment over the piano, deep, burning, in-looking; then they veiled; her fingers touched the keys, wandered over them in a few strange, soft chords, paused, wandered again, more firmly and very intimately, and then she sang. [11]
More example sentences with the word wandered in them
- He wandered on, wounded and indignant, and was resolved to put himself in the way of like treatment no more. [5]
- Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
- Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
- He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
- He wandered about with a dreadfully disconsolate look upon his countenance. [6]
- But every one who could have directed them on their way had fled before them, so they had kept too far northward and wandered near the fortress of Thabne. [10]
- Down hill we went together, the fall showing that I must have wandered to high ground. [4]
- The next morning we wandered back up the green valley, leisurely, with the curving walls of those bare and stupendous precipices rising into the clouds before us. [5]
- I don't think we got lost exactly, but we wandered four hours over the steepest, rockiest and most dangerous piece of country in the world. [5]
- Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour! [4]
- When Hunt's time was out, he wandered to St. Louis; and from that place he wrote his letter to Williams. [5]
- The storekeeper's attention was next distracted by the sight of one who wandered slowly but ceaselessly from group to group, kicking up his heels behind, and halting always in the rear of the speakers. [9]
- Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
- Then my glance wandered to the floor, and on the puncheons were three stains. [9]
- Next, my mind wandered to the astrologer, and I wondered where he might be. [5]
- Then her eyes wandered to Ledscha, and from her to the goddess, and finally back again to the sculptor. [10]
- At York we wandered to and through a flower-show, and _did_ the cathedral, as people _do_ all the sights they see under the lead of a paid exhibitor, who goes through his lesson like a sleepy old professor. [6]
- His eyes often wandered to a certain desk, and once he had found strength to lift his emaciated arm and point to it. [6]
- For I have wandered through thy flowery woods; Have roamed and read near Tallapoosa's stream; Have listened to Tallassee's warring floods, And wooed on Coosa's side Aurora's beam. [5]
- He who has wandered through this wonderful mountain wilderness can never forget it. [10]
- Then she had wandered through the deep grass, her tiny feet scarcely turning a fragile blade, and she had dreamed beside some old faded flowers. [13]
- Her mobile mind wandered swiftly from lofty to petty things; she seized the cards to see whether fate would unite her to Zorrillo or to Ulrich, and the red ten, which represented herself, lay close beside the green knave, Pasquale. [10]
- But her mind wandered still, and she sat mechanically looking before her at a picture of the father of the late Seigneur, which was let into the moulding of the oak wall. [11]
- As his hand wandered over the body towards the heart, it touched something that rattled against a button. [11]
- The long train wandered on under its shroud of dust, and stood still when it reached the Necropolis; then the sledge with the bier came back empty on red hot runners--but she was not one of the mourners--she was imprisoned in the pestiferous house. [10]
- The sorrel had wandered off down the sage between the trail and the canyon. [13]
- Ring and Whitie wandered in the fore, often turning, often trotting back, open-mouthed and solemn-eyed and happy. [13]
- For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinking --trying to get his bearings. [5]
- Waking, she never wandered in her mind but once, and that was of beautiful music which she said was in the air. [12]
- The farther they wandered from this canyon the better it would suit him. [13]
- Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
- As Janet's glance wandered down the line it was arrested by the face of a man in a visored woollen cap--a face that was almost sepia, in which large white eyeballs struck a note of hatred. [9]
- Then my eyes wandered back into the room. [9]
- At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
- Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
- In all the vast territory, away up to the Utah line, over which he had wandered, he met human beings (excluding "Indians and others not taxed ") so rarely that he was in danger of being locoed. [4]
- She wandered off up into the remoter parts of The Mountain, that day, after their return. [6]
- I doubt if two lovers of the renaissance ever wandered through a more wondrous realm of pleasance--to quote the words of the poet. [9]
- I wandered about town questioning everybody, boring everybody, and finding out that nobody knew anything. [5]
- At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
- He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune. [5]
- His eyes wandered to the twins and fixed themselves there with a vacant gaze. [5]
- His eyes wandered to the raft where the men were singing, and he remembered the threat made: that if he came again to the Cote Dorion he "would get what for! [11]
- Her eye wandered to the racllyi, with its flitches of bacon, to the dreschiaux and the sanded floor, to the great Elizabethan oak chair, and at last back to Guida, as though through her the lost voice might be charmed up again. [11]
- My glance wandered to the pews which held the committees from various organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Bar Association, which had come to do honour to my father. [9]
- It is needless to say with what eager curiosity he entered its gates and wandered through its streets, and gazed upon its Oriental monuments. [4]
- When I came to myself again and began to listen, I perceived that I had lost another chapter, and that Alisande had wandered a long way off with her people. [5]
- She flew back to her death-bed and fell on her knees--but even there she could not bear to stay long, so she wandered into the garden and visited every spot where she and her mother had been together. [10]
- But she seemed to have been born to misery, and wandered mournfully about, weeping and lamenting because she lacked an object for which to labour. [10]
- We wandered, also, through the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, those monuments of royal prodigality, and with histories so mournful--filled, as it is, with souvenirs of Napoleon the First, and three dead kings and as many queens. [5]
- We wandered for three hours among the chambers and crypts and dungeons of the fortress, and trod where the mailed heels of many a knightly Crusader had rang, and where Phenician heroes had walked ages before them. [5]
- At first her thoughts wandered to and fro like a dove ere it chooses the direction of its flight; but after the question why she was having a tomb built so hurriedly, when she would be permitted to live, her mind found the right track. [10]
- To distract her thoughts she wandered round the room, looking at the works of art that stood against the walls, feeling the stuffs with which the cushions were covered and striking a lute which was leaning against the pedestal of a Muse. [10]
- As we wandered thoughtfully down the marble-paved length of this stately temple, the scene about us was strangely impressive. [5]
- Like trapped animals, they wandered blindly about for a few moments, and then sank down anywhere. [9]
- By nine o'clock they had wandered back to the tavern. [5]
- I wandered through the world with longing gaze, To find her who was my hope's parallel, That to her I might all my gospel tell Of changeless love, and bid her make appraise. [11]
- In the intervals the talk wandered into regions unfamiliar to Honora, and she had a sense that her own horizon was being enlarged. [9]
- He wandered about the streets at night alone, serenaded fair ladies, and compelled many gentlemen, who offended him, to meet him in single combat. [10]
- Was it because the star was hid awhile, That I in blindness wandered from my path; That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile, And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath? [11]
- There was not the slightest movement of the body except the small eyes, which wandered restlessly around the spacious room as if they missed something. [10]
- As he left the rose there, his eyes wandered slowly over this retreat of rest and sleep: white robe-de-nuit, blue silk canopy, blue slippers, blue dressing-gown--all blue, the colour in which he had first seen her. [11]
- They wandered through the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities, searching out the tumbledown French houses; and Honora was never tired of imagining the romances and tragedies which must have taken place in them. [9]
- Marion nodded over the piano at the men, and presently played a snatch of Carmen, then wandered off into the barbaric strength of Tannhauser, and as suddenly again into the ballet music of Faust. [11]
- Well, I left the paternal roof and wandered in other lands, and learned to think in the words of strange people. [6]
- He wandered to the library: it was empty. [11]
- He wandered through the land, preaching to men to drink no wine, and to shun the sight of gold. [11]
- By the time the king had reached the palace, the multitude who had come to take part in the festival had formed themselves into a procession of interminable length, which wandered on through the straight streets of Babylon towards the royal palace. [10]
- She wandered about the house, restless and feverish. [4]
- We wandered about the grounds, spoke with the great people, stared at the odd ones, and said to ourselves,--at least I said to myself,--with Hamlet, "The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold. [6]
- We wandered outside the gardens, passing the rejected guide as we did so. [11]
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. [5]
- Down the declivity the docile little donkey wandered, cropping herbage and singing as he went; and when at last he saw the dead horse and the wounded king, he came and snuffed at them with simple and marveling curiosity. [5]
- The legend goes that after the Crucifixion his conscience troubled him, and he fled from Jerusalem and wandered about the earth, weary of life and a prey to tortures of the mind. [5]
- I wandered for ten years, under the guidance and dictatorship of Circumstance, and finally arrived in a city of Iowa, where I worked several months. [5]
- We fell to talking about it; and, as is usual when the conversation is professedly on one subject, we wandered all around it. [4]
- Up the dusty street wandered fitfully the refrain: "To a gentleman of the king, Vive Napoleon! [11]
- The white canoe still wandered over the lake, alone, ghostly, always avoiding the near approach of the boats which seemed to be coming in its direction. [6]
- In trying to shoot her cheek (as she sat at the supper-table with her parents and brothers and sisters) in such a manner as to mar its comeliness, one of his bullets wandered a little out of the course, and she dropped dead. [5]
- Like master, like servant, and though the marquis had worn the young lady's color for years and rendered her every service of an obedient knight, his eyes and heart often wandered to the right and left. [10]
- Here sat a seller of sugar cane; there wandered, clanking his brasses, a merchant of sweet waters; there shouted a cheap-jack of the Nile the virtues of a knife from Sheffield. [11]
- Didn't look very rugged to take care of a femily, but could get hired haalp, she calc'lated.--The great maternal instinct came crowding up in her soul just then, and her eyes wandered until they settled on her daughter. [6]
- We followed the road through the village for a space, then turned off to the right, and wandered somewhat vaguely, for want of precise directions, over the hills. [6]
- The von Montfort retinue, which had quarters in the Ortlieb house, was one of the most brilliant and numerous of all, and Biberli's eyes wandered with a look of satisfaction over the gold-mounted sedan chair of the young countess. [10]
- Her eyes wandered restlessly from one to another, and not until her glance rested on Joshua's anxious face did she become conscious where she was and what she had done. [10]
- Long before the rest of the house was stirring, Krool wandered hither and thither through the luxurious rooms, vainly endeavouring to occupy himself with his master's clothes, boots, and belongings. [11]
- But the distaff remained untouched, and her thoughts wandered swiftly to the evening before and the ball at the Town Hall. [10]
- The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories. [5]
- If I have reasoned to a false conclusion, it is the vocation of an able debater to show by argument that I have wandered to an erroneous conclusion. [7]
- After leaving the ram tied to the rope, he had wandered at large a while, and then happened to run across a cow. [5]
- As the meeting progressed, Barouche's eyes wandered slowly over the faces of his audience. [11]
- Tracy made slow progress with his work, for his mind wandered a good deal. [5]
- Jimmy had a pocket knife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour. [5]
- Has saucy Eros perchance wandered by mistake into the temple of gloomy Serapis this morning? [10]
- As time had passed I had more than once regretted refusing the Kent plantation, which had put her from whom my thought never wandered within my reach again. [9]
- We wandered all over the town, enjoying whatever was going on in the streets. [5]
- Her eyes wandered over the Square. [11]
- Her eyes wandered over the sea. [11]
- His eyes wandered over the people, over the market. [11]
- His eye wandered over the lake and back again before he answered her, in a dull, heavy tone: "I've had bad luck, and, when you get down, there are plenty to kick you farther. [11]
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