Use wandering in a sentence
Sentences starting with wandering
- Wandering with her thoughts she did not notice the spruce bushes set up for signal, until she had stepped on a thin piece of ice. [11]
Sentences ending with wandering
- No one knew where he had gone, but his friends in Silliston believed he had been seized by one of his sudden, capricious fancies for wandering. [9]
- As I feel now, I do not think anything could persuade me; but you cannot tell what you will do when you are reduced by hunger and your mind wandering. [5]
- To be held in light esteem, nay, even despised, was part of her calling, like her constant wandering. [10]
- But where am I wandering? [10]
- After a while he grew restless and seemed a little wandering. [6]
- In the lightning flashes I saw Nick's face, and it haunted me afterwards through many years of wandering. [9]
Short sentences using wandering
- Confused and wandering statement. [5]
More example sentences with the word wandering in them
- You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. [5]
- They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
- The moment the words were out of her mouth Massieu was reading to her the abjuration, and she was repeating the words after him mechanically, unconsciously--and smiling; for her wandering mind was far away in some happier world. [5]
- One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
- Pale, pale face with a golden setting, Deep, deep glow of stedfast eyes; Form of one there is no forgetting, Wandering out of Paradise. [11]
- The wandering prospectors who made it scraped up two pounds and a half of gold the first day-worth $600. [5]
- The narrow inlets which I have mentioned go wandering out into the land everywhere and hiding themselves in it, and pleasure-launches are always exploring them with picnic parties on board. [5]
- As if people were obliged to be shapely or picturesque for the sake of a wandering artist! [4]
- About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. [14]
- Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
- The courtyard where we learned to manage a steed and use our weapons, the hall where we listened to the wandering minstrels, in ruins! [10]
- In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
- In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
- The tramps in Washington Square felt the genial impulse, and, seeking the shaded benches, began to dream of the open country, the hospitable farmhouses, the nooning by wayside springs, and the charm of wandering at will among a tolerant and not too watchful people. [4]
- Her own mind was wandering when it should not, and recollections she had tried to strangle had sprung up once more. [9]
- Now, Frank Armour was wandering much in the wilds, so that his letters and papers went careering about after him, and some that came first were last to reach him. [11]
- Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still. [5]
- The new-comer's name was Karnis and he was the head of a family of wandering singers who had arrived in Alexandria only the day before from Rome. [10]
- Sir Ozana's saddle was hung about with leather hat boxes, and every time he overcame a wandering knight he swore him into my service and fitted him with a plug and made him wear it. [5]
- Of course I was fond of wandering about the workshops, and there they kept a magpie, a quaint little bird, which my mother had fed out of compassion. [10]
- The others are wandering, we hardly know where. [5]
- Now they are wandering, forlorn, hopeless, and homeless, the victims of a great disaster. [5]
- It is like wandering up the Nile to stray among the shelves of his monumental folios. [6]
- They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]
- That would be wandering too far, from his subject, which, it will be recalled, was civic duties. [9]
- She took to wandering to that part of the palace-grounds where she could see the windows of the tower her lover inhabited. [11]
- Later they were wandering through the picture-gallery together. [4]
- I thought some wandering soul was calling me that had not yet returned to the nether world, for it is not till the sun rises that spirits are scared away. [10]
- His imagination was wandering over it too often when his pen was travelling almost of itself along the weary parallels of the page before him. [6]
- During her changeful, wandering life, she had had no fixed religious principles. [10]
- But I am wandering from the trial. [5]
- But I am wandering from my tale! [10]
- But we are wandering from Hunter's Pass. [4]
- How many years wandering does that make? [10]
- In his early wandering days, when tramping over New England, he used unexpectedly to turn up at Dr. Ledyard's, the principal's, remain for several weeks and disappear again. [9]
- A young lad, wandering along the deserted street, heard it, began to tremble, and sat down on a block of stone beside the doorway of a baker's shop. [11]
- While I was wandering abroad he was deposed from his office, and would probably have died in prison, if a worthy man had not assisted him to save his honor and his liberty. [10]
- When they were wandering about, she seldom thought of this, but now she could not help considering what would become of them if he fell sick, or her own strength were to fail her. [12]
- To Austen Vane, wandering about the grounds, Mr. Crewe's party presented a sociological problem of no small interest. [9]
- Mr. King was wandering about among the buckboards to find an eligible seat. [4]
- One afternoon when Virginia was sitting in the summer house alone, her thoughts wandering back, as they sometimes did, to another afternoon she had spent there,--it seemed so long ago,--when she saw Mammy Easter coming toward her. [9]
- It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. [5]
- It was not until afterwards, in wandering through the lower rooms of this house, become so dear to her, that agitation seized her, and a desire to weep. [9]
- The woman seemed uneasy until I explained that we were travelers and had lost our way and been wandering in the woods all night. [5]
- It seemed like treason, like a rejection of his pure and pious purposes, that Heaven itself barred the path along which he was wearily wandering to win it a soul. [10]
- But he came too late, the spirit of the poor lady was quite clouded, and she listened to him without any interest while he strove to restore her to courage and to recall her wandering mind. [10]
- Caesar's mind and tongue still seemed paralyzed; but at that moment something occurred which recalled him to himself and brought firmness to his wandering gaze. [10]
- I only meant to write about the churches, but I keep wandering from the subject. [5]
- Then she remarked to the magistrate that the incident had occurred in the imperial forest where, as she understood, the unrestricted wandering of strange hunting dogs was prohibited. [10]
- But I intended to speak only of the signorina, and am wandering too far from my subject. [10]
- Sometimes it seems to me almost of the nature of a misdemeanor to be wandering about in the preserve which the fleshless gamekeeper guards so jealously. [6]
- I have stuck to it as well as my wandering, Bohemian nature will permit, and while I do not expect you necessarily to feel any pride in such progress as I have made, I have hoped--that you might feel an interest. [9]
- It was necessary to close the doors to keep out the wandering cows and pigs, and I am bound to say that, notwithstanding the voices of the night, we slept there the sleep of peace. [4]
- I supposed it to be true, but it is not allowable to endorse wandering maxims upon supposition--except when one is trying to make out a case. [5]
- Eyes wandering, apt to be downcast. [6]
- Therefore, the next time little Jacob woke, Kit set himself to attract his wandering attention, and this not being a very difficult task (one sneeze effected it), he signed to him to rouse his mother. [12]
- We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. [5]
- But, ere carrying this plan into execution, Moses, accompanied by a few trusty men, desired to examine the new route and ascertain whether it would be passable for the great wandering people. [10]
- And one reads there these inscriptions: "Whatever their mode of faith, or creed, who feed the wandering birds, will themselves be fed. [4]
- The snow-bound in their Arctic hulk are glad to see even a wandering Esquimau. [4]
- The truth is the Young Doctor was somewhat of an expert in human nature, and he deeply wanted to know the history of this wandering habitant, because he had a great compassionate liking for him. [11]
- This was in the time when Charles was yet devoted to his Princess of Portugal, and while she was yet happy and undisturbed by rumours--or assurances--of her Lord's wandering affections. [11]
- And think of the simple ways of this court: this wandering wench hadn't any more trouble to get access to the king in his palace than she would have had to get into the poorhouse in my day and country. [5]
- The solitude of the Place Vendome was something oppressive; I felt, as I trod its lonely sidewalk, as if I were wandering through Tadmor in the Desert. [6]
- Several limes in the old garden had been cut down and a piebald mare and her foal were wandering in front of the house among the rosebushes. [2]
- He had passed the months in a various life; first as a crier to a wandering quack, and afterwards, inasmuch as he was a nimble and likely lad, he had waited on the guests at one of the best frequented inns at Wurzberg. [10]
- Indeed, the ruin, the lonely wandering which had been Jean Jacques' portion, had given him that dignity which often comes to those who defy destiny and the blows of angry fate. [11]
- Thou that are the Good Shepherd, have mercy on this wandering sheep! [10]
- The Honourable was the first to reach the point of vantage, and to look down upon the vast and wandering fissures, the frigid bulwarks, the great fortresses of ice, the ceaseless snows, the aisles of this mountain sanctuary through which Nature's splendid anthems rolled. [11]
- While wandering about the Continent he arrived at the spot on the Rhine which is now occupied by Sackingen, and proposed to settle there, but the people warned him off. [5]
- In wandering along the cliff path in the afternoon, Irene and Mr. King were separated from the others, and unconsciously extended their stroll, looking for a comfortable seat in the rocks. [4]
- For two years the clac-clac of Dormy Jamais's sabots had not been heard in the streets of St. Heliers--he had been wandering in France, a daft pilgrim. [11]
- She had taken the chanting train for the wandering souls of the dead and--how strange! [10]
- Certain it is that in his wandering among strangers he had come to be a mighty handy, wide-awake fellow, with much that was good in him, inasmuch as with all his subtlety he had kept his true Nuremberger's heart. [10]
- Because it was summer, when it is so beautiful out in the fields, the little town presented a particularly dismal appearance with its broken roofs and fences, its foul streets, tattered inhabitants, and the sick and drunken soldiers wandering about. [2]
- They liked better staying there than wandering about in the evening with their parents, whose excursions seemed to them somewhat aimless, and their pleasures insipid. [8]
- Instead of the spider, a slender, lank woman, with long, outstretched bare arms, and fingers spread wide apart, fluttering hair, and wandering eyes again stood before Ledscha. [10]
- I could see something devilish in the smile at Doltaire's lip's, but his look was wandering between Alixe and me, and he replied urbanely, "I have ambition yet--to connive at captivity"; and then he looked full and meaningly at her. [11]
- When it was soft, everything had a tendency to go on to it,--cows, and especially wandering hackmen. [4]
- Well, I've been so mad for two days I couldn't find my way to town--been wandering around in the brush in a starving condition--got anything here to drink, General? [5]
- It is feared she may have come to harm in some way, or be wandering at large in a state of temporary mental alienation. [6]
- The astronomical lessons she has been taking have become interesting enough to absorb too much of her thoughts, and she finds them wandering to the stars or elsewhere, when they should be working quietly in the editor's harness. [6]
- But when the shadows of night closed them in, they gradually ceased to talk, and sat gazing into the fire, with their minds evidently wandering elsewhere. [5]
- Since then they seemed to have been wandering in the desert between Pithom and the Red Sea. [10]
- He must need see every thing for himself, and he is always wandering restlessly through the provinces. [10]
- Did not some Roman armorer forge it for the wandering emperor? [10]
- Thus stripped, he roamed about Normandy in a forlorn condition, occasionally entertained by honorable persons who had heard of his misfortunes, and seeking always means of continuing his travels, wandering from port to port on the chance of embarking on a man-of-war. [4]
- They took the road by the sea leading from the Nekropolis to Eleusis, wandering on in the glowing moonlight. [10]
- Read it with reverence and gratitude and send it back to me; for Mark is impatient to see once more his wandering offspring. [5]
- While Marcus was restlessly wandering on the shore of Mareotis, dreaming of Dada's image and arranging speeches of persuasive eloquence by which to touch her heart and appeal to her soul, silence had fallen on the floating home of the singers. [10]
- And Lem Hallowell remembered when Mr. Worthington was a slim-cheated young man wandering up and down Coniston Water in search of health. [9]
- These reflections naturally recalled again more strongly than before his haggard face, his wandering manner, his restless anxious looks. [12]
- Nor was it quite dispelled when he lighted a pipe and they started to explore their Eden, wandering through chambers with, low ceilings in the old part of the house, and larger, higher apartments in the portion that was called new. [9]
- Call back thy poor wandering memory. [5]
- Then we saw poor old Father Peter wandering along back, with his head bent down, searching the ground. [5]
- Suppose she were poor and hungry, a woman wandering forlorn, how stony and pitiless these insolent mansions! [4]
- This was the period of the year when the Rockland people were most cautious of wandering in the leafier coverts which skirted the base of The Mountain, and the farmers liked to wear thick, long boots, whenever they went into the bushes. [6]
- Who were those people who went wandering about among the slain, turning first to this side and then to that, as if searching for something? [10]
- One memory predominates over all others, in walking through the halls, or still more in wandering through the grounds, of Wilton House. [6]
- We all glided out, silently, and stood on the bank, our horrified eyes wandering back and forth from each other's countenances to the water. [5]
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