Why dost thou complain if thou art taken in a snare, by wandering in a strange land, who oughtest to restrain thy affections from straying from home?
Boisil, not content continually to instruct and exhort his religious brethren by word and example, made frequent excursions into the villages to preach to the poor, and to bring strayingsouls into the paths of truth and of life.
So she swooped down from the welkin and alighted in a wide plain, a blooming champaign, wherein were gazelles straying and springs playing and rivers flowing and ripe fruits growing.
They sailed till he made an island, where Bulukiya landed with the crew, but straying away from the rest he sat down under a tree and sleep got the better of him.
Its range is along the South Atlantic coast to the West Indies, sometimes straying as far north as Cape Cod in the summer.
The natural habitat of the weakfish is along the Atlantic coast south of Cape Cod, occasionally straying to the Gulf of Mexico.
It is common on the coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific in the United States, and is especially abundant in Florida waters, occasionally straying in summer as far north as Long Island.
Its range extends along the Atlantic coast south of Buzzards Bay, occasionallystraying to the Gulf of Mexico.
What if some of the Indians given to nocturnal straying should chance to come that way, and see him up those stairs, desecrating the abode of the dead?
The life of a white man caught strayingin the territory of "El Gran Chaco" would not have been worth a withey.
The sun shone on her face and touched lovingly the small straying curls of her hair, as Kate stood at the outer door of the lodgings in Zaandpoort Street.
Maisie's hand passed lightly over the shapely head with its straying and enticing thatch of dark love-locks, and her voice crooned and cooed over her friend like a dove over its mate in the nest.
As he sat opposite to her, his eyes, in spite of himself, kept straying to her face.
But even while his lips were pressed on hers, she felt rather than saw his eyes straying to the garden, and thought, "He would like to be kissing that girl!
Bristoe, who had turned aside to examine the straying horse, came trotting up.
It was a long stretch of sand and water extending from bank to bank, but the latter was shallow, the only danger being that of straying off from the more solid bottom into quicksand.
The groves of wood converted to pasture were to be enclosed, so as to prevent the depredations made upon them by straying beasts, and, if necessary, the land was to be sown with acorns.
The gaunt sheep dogs raced to and fro, bringing the strayinggoats together.
For he recalled that stormy night in the sheepfold of Nathan ben Obed, and the shepherd who searched till dawn for the straying lamb.
The wall is intended for a protection against robbers, at the same time that it serves as a pen to keep their flocks from straying or trespassing on the cultivated fields during the night time.
The patient camel shared their silent retreat; though they had taken precautions against its straying from them, had it felt so inclined, by tying its shanks securely together.
Four miles was sufficient to screen the castaways from the observation of anyone who might be straying along the coast.
They only knew that they were facing shoreward by the inflow of the tide, but certain that this would prove a tolerably safe guide, they kept boldly on, without fear of straying from the track.
The man had seen one or two of the hoppled animals straying from the camp.
For a while Kemp maintained a sort of Roland-for-an-Oliver conversation with her; but with his eyes continually straying to the girl before him, it became rather difficult.
Her face flushed and whitened again; she put up her hand blindly to her straying hair, and for an instant seemed to sway in the saddle.
As a tourist strayingamong the Chiltern Hills--with me almost an annual habit--I could perceive no change in their aspect.
Then, his operations finished, he went and leaned his elbows on the beacon housing, his eyes straying over the surface of the ocean.
We walked by ourselves, genuine loiterers stopping or straying as our fancies dictated.
The illusion wants but the tinkle of cowbells: it would be pleasant to present bells to straying goats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
