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  • At the appointed "curtain hour", the Stage Manager saunters from Right, a script in his hand, a pipe in his mouth, hat on head.   (source)
    saunters = walks leisurely
  • At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets.   (source)
    sauntered = walked leisurely
  • I ran the stand sometimes as Baba sauntered down the aisle, hands respectfully pressed to his chest, greeting people he knew from Kabul: mechanics and tailors selling hand-me-down wool coats and scraped bicycle helmets, alongside former ambassadors, out-of-work surgeons, and university professors.†   (source)
  • Connor drops his wrench and runs toward him, but gains control before he gets there, burying his mixed flood of feelings beneath a calm saunter.†   (source)
  • The only break in the gloom came in the form of a smiling guard who liked to saunter down the barracks aisle, pause before each cell, raise one leg, and vent a surly fart at the captive within.†   (source)
  • I took Lillian Jean's books, and as we sauntered down the road, I only half listened to her; I was sweeping the road, looking for the deep wooded trail I had selected earlier in the week.†   (source)
  • He slapped his thigh and Almondine sauntered over and he held out his two cards, facedown.†   (source)
  • He slings his backpack over his shoulder and takes his time sauntering over.†   (source)
  • Paul spotted two youths sauntering over from the other side of the street.†   (source)
  • As he sauntered away he smiled and said, "You look a bit red in the face."†   (source)
  • Sure enough, there was Gavril, sauntering onto the set in his crisp blue suit.†   (source)
  • A boy dashed wildly into the darkness; he sauntered back, his blue jacket over his shoulder, laughing.†   (source)
  • People sauntered in, sidled in, or stumbled in, and their condition was duly noted over the tops of newspapers.†   (source)
  • The big girl from the ugly red cabin was sauntering toward us.†   (source)
  • Caroline sauntered over and surveyed them.†   (source)
  • Then it swings shut again, and she saunters over to me with a smile.†   (source)
  • We all watched as Cheddar sauntered across the desktop, rubbing his freakishly big body against the three shelves of the in-and-out box (where Dell Duke had piled official-looking paperwork that I suddenly felt certain he later simply dumped unread in the large storage closet that was behind his desk).†   (source)
  • To my surprise, she smiles and saunters toward the arena, her long red hair swaying with the movement.†   (source)
  • Hanna sauntered coolly out of the restaurant, but once she got to the parking lot, she broke into a run.†   (source)
  • Rameck and the others put their hands in their pockets and sauntered down the sidewalks of Plainfield, looking for trouble, looking for somebody to beat up.†   (source)
  • Moira begins to saunter off, not glancing around.†   (source)
  • Ahead of me, the three of them saunter across the lobby, shrieking . with laughter, one of Richard's arms around Lil's shoulder and the other cinching Em's waist.†   (source)
  • I sauntered into the house and up the stairs like I had business there and didn't care who knew it.†   (source)
  • And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune.†   (source)
  • He tosses another sugar cube in his mouth and saunters off.†   (source)
  • Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass.†   (source)
  • We played with Boche, had a good time, chatted a bit and finally sauntered through the long warehouse to the door.†   (source)
  • In Spanish (he sauntered in well after class started, missing the awkward scene where everyone crowded somberly around my desk to say they were sorry) he didn't sit by me as usual but up front, slouched down with his legs thrown out to the side.†   (source)
  • In a second I have two bottles of lemonade up under my jersey and I saunter away trying to look innocent.†   (source)
  • He sauntered to the counter.†   (source)
  • We sauntered through all the big department stores, touching expensive things without the white clerks giving us a second look.†   (source)
  • The cat yawned, then stretched and sauntered across the floor, weaving its way between objects.†   (source)
  • The usual bypasser is a woman sauntering slowly down the road with bundles upon bundles balanced on her head.†   (source)
  • She walks in by herself, saunters up to us with a look of confusion and sits in the seat beside me.†   (source)
  • The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me.†   (source)
  • And then, feeling perhaps that he had underlined his victory sufficiently, sauntered out into the empty streets.†   (source)
  • Second MetaCop comes out, saunters to the car, suddenly whips open the back door.†   (source)
  • But Rano and I were ecstatic whenever Pancho sauntered through the door.†   (source)
  • Day after day, month after month, while his brother was away and his father went to work, Kuttappen lay flat on his back and watched his youth saunter past without stopping to say hello.†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to her, his skin prickling with her nearness.†   (source)
  • The dismissal had stung her, I could tell, because she made no eye contact as she left, just turned and sauntered off.†   (source)
  • She moved deliberately, forcing her guard to shorten his stride as she sauntered down the ramp.†   (source)
  • At a signal from Ruth we all sauntered out, moving straight for her, but like we were all in a dream.†   (source)
  • A few seconds later, Marley popped his head around the corner and came sauntering into the room.†   (source)
  • A little later the woman came sauntering from her house, her hair just combed out from rollers and too much of something on her face.†   (source)
  • He'd saunter out of the health centers, then drive as fast as he could to the Socios office in Carabayllo, a concrete building that belonged to Father Jack's church, now named the Father Jack Roussin Center.†   (source)
  • Jem sauntered from the livingroom, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake.†   (source)
  • She sauntered along the central reserve reading the numbers on the buildings.†   (source)
  • He dropped his magazine and sauntered over, thumbs hooked into his side-hitched garrison belt, fingers dangling limply toward the stuffed crotch of his pegged levis.†   (source)
  • The last thing she needed was for him to saunter up, feigning surprise at finding her.†   (source)
  • A man wearing a sombrero wider than he was tall sauntered over.†   (source)
  • They visited another jewelry store, Goldman's, and sauntered out of there with a man's gold wristwatch.†   (source)
  • The big bull stopped many times, almost as if he were playing a game with Sa', and just when she almost caught up, he would saunter far ahead once more.†   (source)
  • Immensely patient, that soft voice, ever the warmest friend to chilly creatures burrowed away, nested amongst dry books; so he scuttered, crept, scurried, stalked, tiptoed, wafted, stood immensely still among the primates, the Egyptian monuments to bestial gods, brushed black histories of dead Africa, stayed awhile in Asia, then sauntered on to newer lands.†   (source)
  • He saunters over and picks it up.†   (source)
  • We sauntered down the flight line in tight jeans and tiny tank tops, turning more than a few heads.†   (source)
  • rrhe Mask saunters through the gate, big hands loose at his sides.†   (source)
  • "Bye, ladies," Rob says, and saunters off with his hat just tilted on an angle.†   (source)
  • The others lingered, too, a moment, till they saw it was a girl following; then they turned and sauntered slowly on, still singing: "Ef I was a little bird, I'd nest in the tallest tree, That leans over the waters of the beautiful Tennessee.†   (source)
  • He moved across the courtyard at a studied saunter.†   (source)
  • Foxfire had just taught Colin how to skin a raccoon and cure it into a hide when Hassan burst into his room, laughing loudly, with the slow-moving gray furball known as Princess sauntering after him.†   (source)
  • But I allow it's true, because it explains why you could lope in with a boy and an idiot and saunter off with his remuda.†   (source)
  • Nick walked over with a self-conscious saunter like he was about to meet his future father-in-law.†   (source)
  • She saunters over to the two of us and slips her arm through Ann's.†   (source)
  • "After losing Mike, Mark, Nate, Louis, and Tommy," she says, "seeing him walking toward us in the distance, that unmistakable saunter, I took a moment, thinking, Okay, we got through another one."†   (source)
  • All the town lights were out and there was no sign of life anywhere except for a neighbor's cat that sauntered out of the ditch beside the road and followed us.†   (source)
  • He affected an air of jaunty familiarity as he sauntered to the court and prayed silently that he would not be recognized.†   (source)
  • Savannah Snow sauntered up, most likely to burst Link's bubble.†   (source)
  • Detective Davey Sikes sauntered out to his car at a little past eleven on the fourth night.†   (source)
  • Mr. Taylor saunters around the desk, his dusty black wing tips squeaking.†   (source)
  • No, what I'll do is just saunter down casually later on—perhaps at eleven or midday—pick up the paper and flip through it in mild interest and then saunter home again.†   (source)
  • She sauntered off, winking at Bryn.†   (source)
  • Because he did want very much to impress the stunning woman sauntering up the hill toward him.†   (source)
  • Any expert who saunters into this courtroom and says otherwise will be laughed at by the jury and scorned by the court.†   (source)
  • Then he sauntered out boldly in full view of the enemy.†   (source)
  • She'd been extra careful not to make too much eye contact lest he misinterpret it as an invitation, but he sauntered over to her table and introduced himself anyway.†   (source)
  • A minute later, Nigel sauntered up the steps, shaking his head and scowling at the two of them.†   (source)
  • At 5:30 P.M. the two agents see Oswald sauntering down the street, on his way home from his new job as a welder at the Leslie Machine Shop.†   (source)
  • I'm about to get Raffe when a honey-haired woman saunters over to him on her long legs.†   (source)
  • But I wasn't hoping it when Grandpa sauntered through the front door of his house.†   (source)
  • She saw how he dropped his cigarette, how he ground it beneath his heel, how he picked up his axe and sauntered over to a branch.†   (source)
  • Charlie Donahue saunters behind.†   (source)
  • He sauntered toward the door, paused, and turned.†   (source)
  • He sauntered over to the wagon.†   (source)
  • The wolves were sauntering across the valley as if they had no more interest in the deer than in the rocks.†   (source)
  • He put his stool back and sauntered offstage.†   (source)
  • Too bright, too warm, and too stuffy, but the street garbage did not seem to be emanating gases the way it sometimes did, and most people were wearing clothes; only a few men sauntered around in their potbellies.†   (source)
  • They got out and sauntered into the store, all the time staring at us with unobvious eyes.†   (source)
  • He left the office and sauntered across the lobby.†   (source)
  • I think I merely said nothing, only watched the small man wheel about on his small feet and saunter off out of my existence.†   (source)
  • He sauntered to a weed, collaborated with a sapling, went to the stream and drank, then looked about for new things to do.†   (source)
  • They showed up for evening parade, sauntering over at the last moment and doing nothing that would work up a sweat; they inspected once a week, making private comments to sergeants, comments that invariably meant grief for somebody else, not them; and they decided each week what company had won the honor of guarding the regimental colors.†   (source)
  • A third was sauntering around the car.†   (source)
  • Youths sauntered by insolent of eye and manner, speaking loudly and with exaggerated clearness to each other that I might hear.†   (source)
  • He began sauntering around the shop, tailed by a retinue of anxious clerks.†   (source)
  • After a while the boy sauntered down the hill again.   (source)
  • Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden.   (source)
  • His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.   (source)
    sauntered = wandered
  • Every once in a while, Tariq sauntered in.†   (source)
  • She took a few more puffs, crushed the cigarette against the wall, and sauntered back inside.†   (source)
  • Still grinning, he put his bowl in the sink and sauntered out of the room.†   (source)
  • The two boys sauntered over to the porch.†   (source)
  • With books in hand, I sauntered toward the counter.†   (source)
  • I hunger for a Mogadorian to saunter into the backyard so that I may finally seek revenge.†   (source)
  • Charlie sauntered out to the car, muttering about impatience.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game.†   (source)
  • She sauntered drowsily over and scented Edgar's legs and hands, then leaned against his knee.†   (source)
  • Her ankle was healing quickly; her limp was starting to look like a saunter.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger sauntered over to the table, wrenched the knife from the wood.†   (source)
  • A few minutes after Angela left with the hikers, Jacob sauntered over to take her place by my side.†   (source)
  • Hiro turns away, saunters around the big circular bar in a slow orbit.†   (source)
  • Isaiah sauntered to the other side of the hallway and leaned against the wall.†   (source)
  • But before he had time to respond, Graham sauntered over.†   (source)
  • Lord Petyr sauntered into the solar as if nothing had gone amiss that morning.†   (source)
  • He saunters over, plops down next to me, leg touching mine.†   (source)
  • He sauntered to the table and placed the tightly rolled parchment between them.†   (source)
  • The Dornishman flung away his ruined shield, grasped the spear in both hands, and sauntered away.†   (source)
  • Justin sauntered over totally defining the word "saunter."†   (source)
  • As her crew made her fast to the pilings and lowered a gangplank, her captain sauntered up to Davos.†   (source)
  • Resting Brisingr on his shoulder, he sauntered over and motioned toward her sword.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later, she sauntered over and took a seat on the stool that Todd had been occupying.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit came out after him, sauntering in, wrote a reporter, "like he owned the place."†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to the door and rang the bell.†   (source)
  • Instead, he looked over the entries as Rachel came sauntering toward the table.†   (source)
  • She saunters off and I let the cool night air wash over me.†   (source)
  • 72 He walked into the room—sauntered, really, as if he knew something she didn't.†   (source)
  • Stephanie sauntered by Gabby, obviously pleased with her social engineering.†   (source)
  • Totally guilt free, I saunter up the stage steps.†   (source)
  • People sauntered past, moving faster than he was.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, Pollard sauntered out of the jocks' room, smiling.†   (source)
  • I saunter toward her like a vampire with a hungry expression on my face.†   (source)
  • Not to mention that someone saunters into Sahlgrenska and blows Zalachenko's head off.†   (source)
  • A shy brown mare saunters out from the cover of the trees.†   (source)
  • Rachelle sauntered beside him, hands clasped behind her back, lost in thought.†   (source)
  • Slowly, Felicity releases him, saunters back to join us.†   (source)
  • My feet are glued to the same spot so it's a good thing he saunters toward me.†   (source)
  • It's the name of the nightclub," said Sebastian, sauntering forward.†   (source)
  • "Close the door, Peabody," Eve ordered when Casto sauntered out.†   (source)
  • David slipped the camera back into his pocket and sauntered after, whistling "Daisy Bell."†   (source)
  • A guard came sauntering over to shut them up.†   (source)
  • Forty minutes later, he saunters into Ballou's cafeteria, doing a sort of hitch-stepped "pimp roll.†   (source)
  • Justin sauntered over totally defining the word "saunter."†   (source)
  • Omar glanced at Sarah's expression and sidestepped away just as Connor sauntered over.†   (source)
  • She waited patiently until Holm sauntered into the glass cage with the reporter Frisk in tow.†   (source)
  • On Saturday night, he saunters into his neighbor's room and chats the guy up.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, he saunters into the computer science classroom of Mr. Dorosti.†   (source)
  • Samuel stood up and sauntered down the hill.†   (source)
  • He looked coldly at me and forgave me and sauntered away to a hazelnut bush.†   (source)
  • He winked at Reich and sauntered out of the room.†   (source)
  • MRS. KREBS saunters across the square STOREKEEPER Warm enough for you, Mrs. Krebs?†   (source)
  • "I guess I did--I guess I did," said Samuel and sauntered on.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Sauntering away) This is going to be a barren source of amusement!†   (source)
  • (Saunters over to DUN' LAP) How are you?†   (source)
  • But HORNBECK saunters toward the picnic table) HORNBECK I disagree.†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to me, his eyes dead.†   (source)
  • Let the Capitol and the districts run one another into the ground and then sauntered in to take power.†   (source)
  • John McNab sauntered forward.†   (source)
  • Outwardly, little seemed to have changed since William Makepeace Thackeray visited Savannah in 1848 and described it as a tranquil old city with wide, tree-planted streets and "a few happy Negroes sauntering here and there."†   (source)
  • But when he walked out the door, and I stood at the window and watched him duck the drips from the awning and saunter away —his gait loosening and lightening as soon as he thought he was out of my view—I felt there was a pretty good chance it was the last I'd see of him.†   (source)
  • I walked the halls facing straight ahead, a saunter in my step, only slightly and consciously glancing to the sides.†   (source)
  • I would saunter over under the pretense of some task or other and there I was, leaning against a shovel, or tending to a cup of green tea, speaking to her.†   (source)
  • Solembum guided him back to the dragonhold, then dismissed him with a twitch of his tail before sauntering away.†   (source)
  • One has to wait until they saunter to their balconies, so to speak, before one can clean their rooms, and then one has to wait until they tire of the view and return to their rooms before one can clean their balconies; and there is much cleaning to do, for the guests are as unhygienic as alcoholics.†   (source)
  • On one occasion Armansky was sitting at a café on Stortorget in Gamla Stan when Salander came sauntering up and sat at a table a short distance away.†   (source)
  • Whenever a woman leaves her wide-open-to-the-world yard to work her field or saunter off on an errand, first she must make herself decent.†   (source)
  • Calmly, they walked to the store, bought three candy bars, then sauntered back to the parking lot of the school.†   (source)
  • She comes sauntering up the aisle.†   (source)
  • Adel played alone behind the compound, over by the old tree stump in the clearing, each day hoping to see Gholam sauntering up.†   (source)
  • Before I could collapse with fear, Seth grumbled slightly, deep in his chest, and then turned away from his watch and sauntered back toward his resting place.†   (source)
  • Claude sauntered into the living room and paged through a magazine, then climbed the stairs, and all the while a silence occupied the house so profound that when the lead snapped in his father's pencil, Edgar heard him swear under his breath and throw it across the room.†   (source)
  • From everywhere within walking distance, every fifth day, people with hands full or empty appeared in our village to saunter and haggle their way up and down the long rows where women laid out produce on mats on the ground.†   (source)
  • They would climb steep mountains, swim vast seas and destroy armies for you, deity of sauntering, Goddess of aura and bloom.†   (source)
  • Even that most doleful of Christian laments—"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"—sounded snappy and upbeat through these women's windpipes as they sauntered along: "Nani oze mpasi zazo!†   (source)
  • He kissed the black woman's hand, whispered some joke that made her laugh aloud, and sauntered over to Ned.†   (source)
  • The women's long cloth skirts are printed so gaily with the oddest things: there is no telling when a raft of yellow umbrellas, or the calico cat and gingham dog, or an upside-down image of the Catholic Pope might just go sauntering across our yard.†   (source)
  • Theon Greyjoy sauntered closer.†   (source)
  • He sauntered after the man tailing Blomkvist even though he had not been instructed to do so, but he lost sight of him on Langholmsgatan.†   (source)
  • Beaming smiles, Morse sauntered over.†   (source)
  • So I sauntered over to the armchair next to the one Rosalie had and settled in, sprawling out so that my head was tilted toward Bella and my left foot was near Rosalie's face.†   (source)
  • They sauntered on down route 6, stopping frequently to examine the cars, gesticulating, bantering each other about the best way to burglarize a shack that, as Guitar said, "didn't have a door or window with a lock."†   (source)
  • They jump up from the table, saunter into the kitchen for more butter, or the salt, which has been forgotten.†   (source)
  • Later, he would see the same young woman coming out from among the trees, head bowed, face averted, and then three or four men would come sauntering out of the woods behind her, smiling and laughing.†   (source)
  • Bemused by the coincidence, Eragon sauntered over to the bronze sculpture and gazed up at the bear's gleaming fangs, wondering what had drawn him back.†   (source)
  • Spotting their prey, the boys sauntered forward as though there were nothing in the world on their minds but the gray sky.†   (source)
  • The line was at least six or seven deep, and as she reached the end of it, Marcus sauntered toward Ronnie and took a seat beside her.†   (source)
  • He was about to say "Excuse me" when one of them, the taller and darker-haired of the two, broke away and sauntered over to Jace, wobbling a little on her platform heels.†   (source)
  • It's late, said Saphira as Eragon sauntered toward his tent, beside which she lay coiled, sparkling like a mound of azure coals in the dim light of the torches.†   (source)
  • Lute in hand, he sauntered to the dais, hopping nimbly over a corpse or two, and seated himself cross-legged on the high table.†   (source)
  • "Let me guess what you're thinking," said Jules, rising to his feet and sauntering to the front of the room.†   (source)
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