All 6 Uses of
saunter
in
Bleak House
- CHAPTER XX A New Lodger The long vacation saunters on towards term-time like an idle river very leisurely strolling down a flat country to the sea.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Guppy saunters along with it congenially.†
Chpt 19-21
- His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- He was only sauntering by and stopped to prose.†
Chpt 31-33
- Yet the time is so short since his depreciation began that as he saunters away, reluctant to leave the spot for some long months together, though he hates it, Richard himself may feel his own case as if it were a startling one.†
Chpt 37-39
- Like a dingy London bird among the birds at roost in these pleasant fields, where the sheep are all made into parchment, the goats into wigs, and the pasture into chaff, the lawyer, smoke-dried and faded, dwelling among mankind but not consorting with them, aged without experience of genial youth, and so long used to make his cramped nest in holes and corners of human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
-
(saunter) to walk leisurely