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Example sentences for "itinerant"

Lexicographically close words:
ithin; ithout; itidem; itineraire; itinerancy; itinerants; itineraries; itinerary; itinerated; itinerating
  1. He was very regular in his attendance at church exercises and his piety was undoubtedly genuine, as will appear from the following: Once, a large crowd had assembled in a log schoolhouse to listen to an itinerant preacher.

  2. I saw one of the itinerant lacquer collectors, his hands wrapped in cotton, operating on a tree.

  3. A familiar sight on a country road is the itinerant medicine vendor.

  4. An itinerant agricultural instructor in sericulture who joined in our conversation was not much concerned by the plight of the priests.

  5. The period of the circus, the political speech, and the itinerant show had not yet come.

  6. Hence, we are inclined to think that this eminent artist came from Clonmacnoise, if he were not one of the itinerant craftsmen who at this period migrated from place to place, as they do still, for a job.

  7. There are no kiosks; the papers are sold by children or by old women in the streets, and the Madrid night is rent by the appalling cries of these itinerant vendors of literature.

  8. At any rate, I was determined to pass for an itinerant Dutch music-grinder with her no longer.

  9. Indeed, a wave of passionate inquiry had swept the whole country, and unnumbered congregations were listening with wonder to the testimonies eloquently and fearlessly related by the Báb’s itinerant messengers.

  10. After they had been exhibited in my Museum, they were sold to itinerant showmen, and some of them were afterwards on exhibition in various parts of the United States.

  11. I dreaded resuming the life of an itinerant showman, but funds were low, I had a family to care for, and as nothing better presented I made up my mind to endure the vexations and uncertainties of a tour in the West and South.

  12. The itinerant amusement business is at the bottom of the ladder.

  13. And with the old, recurring pain, he remembered how avidly another sixteen-year-old boy had devoured a collection of paper-backed novels left at the Swamp Farm by an itinerant hired man.

  14. An itinerant gasoline engine made its rounds every winter to cut the year's wood, but no one had ventured to adapt even gasoline to any farm work.

  15. He was embarrassed by the situation; evidently itinerant selling was new to him, and not congenial.

  16. He became an itinerant Methodist preacher, with the pitiable salary of $300 a year.

  17. If it had not been for this home, which was a refuge and asylum for the itinerant preacher, grandfather Pickering would have starved.

  18. He chose the calling of an itinerant Methodist preacher, when to do so meant tremendous financial sacrifice and the loss of social rank.

  19. Finally there came one day a letter from my grandmother, the wife of the old Methodist itinerant preacher of Waltham: "Send on some one of the family, before they are all dead.

  20. When enduring severe mental conflicts, and while he maintained his family by the work of his hands, he was an acceptable pastor, and extensively useful in itinerant labours of love in the villages round Bedford.

  21. From this fatal sleep of ignorance and error, they were aroused by itinerant preachers; many of whom were men of education, of irreproachable morals, and most benevolent habits.

  22. Much of the business in the interior is done by itinerant peddlers, who carry their wares on their backs, and tramp over the whole continent from the Isthmus to Patagonia.

  23. Of course, all this has limited the traffic of itinerant vendors, and prevented any great increase in their number.

  24. In 1872 a costermonger named Darby, plying his itinerant trade in the densely packed and comfortless region immediately eastward of the City of London, was one day driving his donkey-cart, laden with cheap fish from Billingsgate.

  25. Without churches the friars were only itinerant preachers, and their purpose could not but be perfectly disinterested; they were, as Francis had wished, the friendly auxiliaries of the clergy.

  26. Kenite means "smith," and the tribe furnished those itinerant smiths who provided Canaan with its tools and arms.

  27. The Israelites were forbidden the use of arms, and no itinerant smith was permitted to enter their territory.

  28. Similar itinerant ironsmiths wandered through Europe in the Middle Ages, handing down from father to son the secrets of their craft.

  29. Mr. Lucas of Plymouth, said (as far as we could hear him) that the difficulty in the Marshpee tribe had been caused by an itinerant preacher, who went there and urged them to declare their independence.

  30. The petition originated no doubt, from the itinerant preacher, who had been pouring into their ears discontent until they had a riot, and the rioters were prosecuted with the preacher among them, and he was convicted and imprisoned.

  31. At a later period, however, he lived for some time at the court of Lucca, but soon found it more pleasant and profitable to resume his itinerant habits.

  32. To them, it was plain that they must have sprung from a life of a much more settled and secluded cast than that of an itinerant Italian musical professor.

  33. On Saturday nights, when there is a greater stir than usual outside, and when itinerant vendors of miscellaneous wares even take their stations and light up their smoky lamps before the iron railings, Titbull's becomes flurried.

  34. A change in persons must of course take place, for their present pastor had exhausted the three-year maximum of the itinerant system, but there was needed much more than that.

  35. I am carrying big projects in my mind--big, ambitious thoughts and plans upon which great things depend.

  36. He followed her and her candle down the magnificent stairway again.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "itinerant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.