Wandering
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Then she remembered that this youth,
wandering
about at night without a sou, perhaps had not a bit of bread.
Wandering
lights moved over the soil, and hot vapours, the poisons from the devil's ordure and his dirty kitchen, were constantly smoking.
Information also reached him of the bewilderment of the police and the troops,
wandering
along the roads, and always with their backs to the pit attacked.
But she smiled with the
wandering
smile of the dying, and her eyes were very large; while her poor hands contracted over her hollow breast.
She had had enough of it, beaten and driven away by her man,
wandering
about like a lost dog in the mud of the roads, without being able to ask a crust from her father, who was starving like herself.
Can't you see we're just
wandering
around at random?
And, according to what she was saying, her voice was clear, sharp, or, on a sudden all languor, drawn out in modulations that ended almost in murmurs as she spoke to herself, now joyous, opening big naive eyes, then with her eyelids half closed, her look full of boredom, her thoughts
wandering.
Through the bars of the arbour and away beyond, the river seen in the fields, meandering through the grass in
wandering
curves.
One day when,
wandering
aimlessly about the house, he had gone up to the attic, he felt a pellet of fine paper under his slipper.
CHAPTER 16 The Day AfterHe turn'd his lips to hers, and with his handCall'd back the tangles of her
wandering
hair.
I am
wandering
...Well, you understand what you must do; be gentle, polite, never contemptuous with these vulgar personages, I implore you on my knees: they are to be the arbiters of our destiny.
After a long course of
wandering
between drawing-room and garden, he found himself horribly tired; this was an initial success which pleased him greatly.
I have a vague recollection of having been woke up at least a dozen times during the night by Harris
wandering
about the boat with the lantern, looking for his clothes.
I am sure 'twill be much convenienter to them, and more agreeable to me - because, as I said before, Harvey is away; I wish he'd take advice, and leave off wandering; he's well to do in the world by this time; and he ought to leave off his uncertain courses, and settle himself, handsomely, in life, like other men of his years and property.
The uneasiness of the peddler increased in a manner for which nothing apparent could account; his eye was constantly
wandering
towards the lower end of the vale as if in expectation of some interruption from that quarter.
Captain Lawton was too much engrossed with the foregoing conversation to suffer his eyes to indulge in their usual wandering; and the peddler, perceiving by the voices that the enemy he most feared had passed, yielded to his impatience, and stood erect, in order to make greater progress.
At one blow competence and kindred had been swept from them, and from that day to the present hour, persecution and distress had followed their
wandering
steps.
"'Tis probably a
wandering
of the reasoning powers, created by the frequency of intoxicating drafts," observed the surgeon, as he deliberately threw his left leg over the pommel of the saddle, and slid down on the right side of his horse.
Birch received the volume with habitual reverence; but there was an abstracted air about him, and a
wandering
of the eye, that induced his companion to think that alarm was getting the mastery of the peddler's feelings; accordingly, he proceeded in what he conceived to be the offices of consolation.
"Fool, you are fitter for your pallet than for
wandering
among those rocks; a fall from one of them would break your bones; besides, the Skinners have fled to those heights, and should you fall in with them, they would revenge on you a sound flogging they have just received from me.
"A gala suit of the good maiden, Jeanette Peyton,
wandering
around its birthplace, or searching in vain for its discomfited mistress?"
The Cowboys rode steadily on their route, as if nothing had occurred; and the body was left swinging in the wind, until chance directed the
wandering
footsteps of some lonely straggler to the place.
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.
There was a Barbary rover that had been at Eyemouth, and he was coming back in five years in a ship full of gold to make her his wife; and then there was a
wandering
knight who had been there also, and he had given her a ring which he said he would redeem when the time came.
All forenoon I was
wandering
over the links, and you may imagine that my mind was turning all the time upon this strange man whom chance had drifted to our doors.
Wandering
thus about, I knew not whither, I passed by an apothecary's shop in Leadenhall Street, when I saw lie on a stool just before the counter a little bundle wrapped in a white cloth; beyond it stood a maid-servant with her back to it, looking towards the top of the shop, where the apothecary's apprentice, as I suppose, was standing upon the counter, with his back also to the door, and a candle in his hand, looking and reaching up to the upper shelf for something he wanted, so that both were engaged mighty earnestly, and nobody else in the shop.
She cast a vague
wandering
look upon this wall, and, without a word she, in her turn, went to bed in disdainful indifference.
She preferred to remain idle, with her eyes fixed, and her thoughts
wandering
and lost.
At other times Therese seemed quite mad,
wandering
in her mind.
She rapidly ascended the staircase of the hotel, and on reaching the sixth floor, out of breath, and with
wandering
eyes, she perceived Laurent, who was leaning over the banister awaiting her.
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