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Example sentences for "wandered about"

  • I wandered about in woods and solitary places, for the sight of my fellow creatures was horrible to me.

  • The islands already visited by the adventurers of the period, were said to be scenes of enchantment--a sort of demi-paradise, where the most lovely Indian females wandered about in all the innocence of the golden age.

  • There he wandered about in the night and reached a certain house inhabited by a young woman, and asked the woman for a lodging there.

  • And as he wandered about there in a waterless and savage wood, [19] full of tigers and apes, he beheld a lofty Nyagrodha tree.

  • I wandered about for an hour--for an hour and a half.

  • I wandered about in the alleys--the warm night had come on--smoking cigar after cigar and looking at the light in Miss Bordereau's windows.

  • And he wandered about in the palace, and it seemed as if the night had three hundred hours.

  • There the king lost his way, and as he wandered about wearily, he saw a great lake.

  • Some among them, who wished to pass for genuine Cynics, violated all the laws of decency, wandered about naked in the public streets, attended to the wants of nature in the presence of others, and so on.

  • In this way we wandered about in a district of a few miles for nearly half a year.

  • We wandered about therefore in the country, like the Israelites in the wilderness of Arabia, without knowing where or when we should find a place of rest.

  • For several weeks after this we wandered about in the woods searching for gorillas.

  • I remember that I wandered about in a state of dreamy uncertainty, endeavouring to retrace my steps to our encampment.

  • We wandered about perseveringly, nevertheless, and were rewarded by again discovering them about quarter of a mile farther on, leading down to the banks of the river on another part of which I had had such a narrow escape.

  • I wandered about as if I were exercising some supernatural faculty in a dream.

  • For three days he wandered about like a madman, asking everyone what had become of his palace, but they only laughed and pitied him.

  • I wandered about for a whole month without knowing where I was going, till at length I found myself on the outskirts of a beautiful city, watered by winding streams, which enjoyed an eternal spring.

  • As I wandered about, seeking anxiously for some means of escaping from this trap, I observed that the ground was strewed with diamonds, some of them of an astonishing size.

  • Then he wandered about on the shore, and lost his way in the island; he lay down and fell fast asleep.

  • He wandered about for a long while, without seeing anyone; at length he heard a man running after him, dressed all in white.

  • We wandered about, following our rheumatic old guide, who pointed out the different apartments to us and, in Scotch so broad that we had to follow him very closely, told us the story of the fortress.

  • It indeed brought us near to the spirit and customs of feudal times as we wandered about in the gloom of the deserted apartments.

  • We had reached the ruin so late that it was quite deserted, and we felt the spirit of the place all the more as we wandered about in the evening silence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute sense; another minute; clear conscience; considerable value; fairly good; hour afterwards; infinitely more; lead glass; light breeze from the; mail service; make shift; medical knowledge; molecular weight; much damage; oblong square; railway travelling; still think; substitute for; unclean seven; wandered about; wandered lonely; whether they will forbear; yellowish green