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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The big girl from the ugly red cabin was sauntering toward us.†   (source)
  • As he sauntered away he smiled and said, "You look a bit red in the face."†   (source)
  • People sauntered in, sidled in, or stumbled in, and their condition was duly noted over the tops of newspapers.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, there was Gavril, sauntering onto the set in his crisp blue suit.†   (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)
  • A boy dashed wildly into the darkness; he sauntered back, his blue jacket over his shoulder, laughing.†   (source)
  • Caroline sauntered over and surveyed them.†   (source)
  • Hanna sauntered coolly out of the restaurant, but once she got to the parking lot, she broke into a run.†   (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)
  • To my surprise, she smiles and saunters toward the arena, her long red hair swaying with the movement.†   (source)
  • Moira begins to saunter off, not glancing around.†   (source)
  • Then it swings shut again, and she saunters over to me with a smile.†   (source)
  • In a second I have two bottles of lemonade up under my jersey and I saunter away trying to look innocent.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We played with Boche, had a good time, chatted a bit and finally sauntered through the long warehouse to the door.†   (source)
  • She walks in by herself, saunters up to us with a look of confusion and sits in the seat beside me.†   (source)
  • At a signal from Ruth we all sauntered out, moving straight for her, but like we were all in a dream.†   (source)
  • The dismissal had stung her, I could tell, because she made no eye contact as she left, just turned and sauntered off.†   (source)
  • The cat yawned, then stretched and sauntered across the floor, weaving its way between objects.†   (source)
  • But Rano and I were ecstatic whenever Pancho sauntered through the door.†   (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)
  • The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me.†   (source)
  • Savannah Snow sauntered up, most likely to burst Link's bubble.†   (source)
  • And then, feeling perhaps that he had underlined his victory sufficiently, sauntered out into the empty streets.†   (source)
  • The usual bypasser is a woman sauntering slowly down the road with bundles upon bundles balanced on her head.†   (source)
  • We sauntered through all the big department stores, touching expensive things without the white clerks giving us a second look.†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to her, his skin prickling with her nearness.†   (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)
  • Second MetaCop comes out, saunters to the car, suddenly whips open the back door.†   (source)
  • She sauntered along the central reserve reading the numbers on the buildings.†   (source)
  • A man wearing a sombrero wider than he was tall sauntered over.†   (source)
  • Ahead of me, the three of them saunter across the lobby, shrieking .†   (source)
  • She sauntered off, winking at Bryn.†   (source)
  • "Bye, ladies," Rob says, and saunters off with his hat just tilted on an angle.†   (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)
  • Instead, he looked over the entries as Rachel came sauntering toward the table.†   (source)
  • We sauntered down the flight line in tight jeans and tiny tank tops, turning more than a few heads.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They visited another jewelry store, Goldman's, and sauntered out of there with a man's gold wristwatch.†   (source)
  • Mr. Taylor saunters around the desk, his dusty black wing tips squeaking.†   (source)
  • He moved across the courtyard at a studied saunter.†   (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)
  • 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 saunters over and picks it up.†   (source)
  • Nick walked over with a self-conscious saunter like he was about to meet his future father-in-law.†   (source)
  • Then he sauntered out boldly in full view of the enemy.†   (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)
  • He affected an air of jaunty familiarity as he sauntered to the court and prayed silently that he would not be recognized.†   (source)
  • A minute later, Nigel sauntered up the steps, shaking his head and scowling at the two of them.†   (source)
  • She saunters over to the two of us and slips her arm through Ann's.†   (source)
  • Any expert who saunters into this courtroom and says otherwise will be laughed at by the jury and scorned by the court.†   (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)
  • Jem sauntered from the livingroom, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake.†   (source)
  • Because he did want very much to impress the stunning woman sauntering up the hill toward him.†   (source)
  • He sauntered to the counter.†   (source)
  • He sauntered toward the door, paused, and turned.†   (source)
  • rrhe Mask saunters through the gate, big hands loose at his sides.†   (source)
  • She moved deliberately, forcing her guard to shorten his stride as she sauntered down the ramp.†   (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 wasn't hoping it when Grandpa sauntered through the front door of his house.†   (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)
  • Detective Davey Sikes sauntered out to his car at a little past eleven on the fourth night.†   (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)
  • He sauntered over to the wagon.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He put his stool back and sauntered offstage.†   (source)
  • Charlie Donahue saunters behind.†   (source)
  • Youths sauntered by insolent of eye and manner, speaking loudly and with exaggerated clearness to each other that I might hear.†   (source)
  • They got out and sauntered into the store, all the time staring at us with unobvious eyes.†   (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)
  • A third was sauntering around the car.†   (source)
  • The wolves were sauntering across the valley as if they had no more interest in the deer than in the rocks.†   (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 left the office and sauntered across the lobby.†   (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)
  • Charlie sauntered out to the car, muttering about impatience.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger sauntered over to the table, wrenched the knife from the wood.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game.†   (source)
  • He slapped his thigh and Almondine sauntered over and he held out his two cards, facedown.†   (source)
  • A few minutes after Angela left with the hikers, Jacob sauntered over to take her place by my side.†   (source)
  • I hunger for a Mogadorian to saunter into the backyard so that I may finally seek revenge.†   (source)
  • Hiro turns away, saunters around the big circular bar in a slow orbit.†   (source)
  • She sauntered drowsily over and scented Edgar's legs and hands, then leaned against his knee.†   (source)
  • Lord Petyr sauntered into the solar as if nothing had gone amiss that morning.†   (source)
  • Justin sauntered over totally defining the word "saunter."†   (source)
  • Resting Brisingr on his shoulder, he sauntered over and motioned toward her sword.†   (source)
  • He sauntered to the table and placed the tightly rolled parchment between them.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit came out after him, sauntering in, wrote a reporter, "like he owned the place."†   (source)
  • The Dornishman flung away his ruined shield, grasped the spear in both hands, and sauntered away.†   (source)
  • As her crew made her fast to the pilings and lowered a gangplank, her captain sauntered up to Davos.†   (source)
  • She saunters off and I let the cool night air wash over me.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later, she sauntered over and took a seat on the stool that Todd had been occupying.†   (source)
  • The last thing she needed was for him to saunter up, feigning surprise at finding her.†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to the door and rang the bell.†   (source)
  • Totally guilt free, I saunter up the stage steps.†   (source)
  • The two boys sauntered over to the porch.†   (source)
  • Stephanie sauntered by Gabby, obviously pleased with her social engineering.†   (source)
  • He saunters over, plops down next to me, leg touching mine.†   (source)
  • I ....72 He walked into the room—sauntered, really, as if he knew something she didn't.†   (source)
  • A guard came sauntering over to shut them up.†   (source)
  • Not to mention that someone saunters into Sahlgrenska and blows Zalachenko's head off.†   (source)
  • With books in hand, I sauntered toward the counter.†   (source)
  • I saunter toward her like a vampire with a hungry expression on my face.†   (source)
  • Justin sauntered over totally defining the word "saunter."†   (source)
  • David slipped the camera back into his pocket and sauntered after, whistling "Daisy Bell."†   (source)
  • My feet are glued to the same spot so it's a good thing he saunters toward me.†   (source)
  • Slowly, Felicity releases him, saunters back to join us.†   (source)
  • Her ankle was healing quickly; her limp was starting to look like a saunter.†   (source)
  • People sauntered past, moving faster than he was.†   (source)
  • Rachelle sauntered beside him, hands clasped behind her back, lost in thought.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, Pollard sauntered out of the jocks' room, smiling.†   (source)
  • Forty minutes later, he saunters into Ballou's cafeteria, doing a sort of hitch-stepped "pimp roll.†   (source)
  • "Close the door, Peabody," Eve ordered when Casto sauntered out.†   (source)
  • A shy brown mare saunters out from the cover of the trees.†   (source)
  • It's the name of the nightclub," said Sebastian, sauntering forward.†   (source)
  • Isaiah sauntered to the other side of the hallway and leaned against the wall.†   (source)
  • She waited patiently until Holm sauntered into the glass cage with the reporter Frisk in tow.†   (source)
  • But before he had time to respond, Graham sauntered over.†   (source)
  • Omar glanced at Sarah's expression and sidestepped away just as Connor sauntered over.†   (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)
  • "I guess I did—I guess I did," said Samuel and sauntered on.†   (source)
  • He winked at Reich and sauntered out of the room.†   (source)
  • He looked coldly at me and forgave me and sauntered away to a hazelnut bush.†   (source)
  • MRS. KREBS saunters across the square STOREKEEPER Warm enough for you, Mrs. Krebs?†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Sauntering away) This is going to be a barren source of amusement!†   (source)
  • But HORNBECK saunters toward the picnic table) HORNBECK I disagree.†   (source)
  • He sauntered up to me, his eyes dead.†   (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)
  • John McNab sauntered forward.†   (source)
  • Let the Capitol and the districts run one another into the ground and then sauntered in to take power.†   (source)
  • "Let me guess what you're thinking," said Jules, rising to his feet and sauntering to the front of the room.†   (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)
  • Solembum guided him back to the dragonhold, then dismissed him with a twitch of his tail before sauntering 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)
  • Before we could even take a step, Ridley sauntered by us, back through the open balcony doors, those ten-mile legs stepping across the threshold.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She comes sauntering up the aisle.†   (source)
  • They would climb steep mountains, swim vast seas and destroy armies for you, deity of sauntering, Goddess of aura and bloom.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Spotting their prey, the boys sauntered forward as though there were nothing in the world on their minds but the gray sky.†   (source)
  • Beaming smiles, Morse sauntered over.†   (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)
  • They jump up from the table, saunter into the kitchen for more butter, or the salt, which has been forgotten.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The next morning after a breakfast big enough for six, the three of us sauntered over to the U.S. Forest Office.†   (source)
  • When he espied Jon Snow, Axell Florent tossed a bone aside, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and sauntered over.†   (source)
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