All 16 Uses
saunter
in
Of Human Bondage
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- It gave him a peculiar satisfaction to saunter round the precincts.†
Chpt 17-18saunter = walk leisurely
- Sometimes he sauntered through the streets of the old town.†
Chpt 23-24 *sauntered = walked leisurely
- Miss Wilkinson accepted, and they sauntered side by side.†
Chpt 33-34
- D'you know, Mrs. Carey has been scolding me on your account?' said Miss Wilkinson, when they were sauntering through the kitchen garden.†
Chpt 33-34sauntering = walking leisurely
- He got his hat and sauntered off.†
Chpt 35-36sauntered = walked leisurely
- The streets were almost empty, and the people who went along had a preoccupied look; they did not saunter but walked with some definite goal in view, and hardly anyone was alone.†
Chpt 37-38saunter = walk leisurely
- He sauntered along, staring at the people; there seemed an elegance about the most ordinary, workmen with their broad red sashes and their wide trousers, little soldiers in dingy, charming uniforms.†
Chpt 41-42sauntered = walked leisurely
- of course it was indicated, and so, sauntering towards the station, he seated himself outside a cafe and ordered it.†
Chpt 41-42sauntering = walking leisurely
- He took off his hat and sauntered away.†
Chpt 75-76sauntered = walked leisurely
- The man stared at her for a moment, turned away his head, and sauntered on.†
Chpt 89-90
- He walked on mechanically, not noticing where he went, and realised suddenly, with a movement of irritation, that instead of turning down the Haymarket he had sauntered along Shaftesbury Avenue.†
Chpt 105-106
- He longed to be a boy again, like those he saw sauntering through the quadrangle, so that, avoiding his mistakes, he might start fresh and make something more out of life.†
Chpt 111-112sauntering = walking leisurely
- And in a few minutes, Harold and Jane with pieces of bread and butter in their hands, they sauntered through the meadow into the hop-field.†
Chpt 117-118sauntered = walked leisurely
- He sauntered up to Mrs. Athelny, who had been busy for half an hour and had already emptied a basket into the bin, and with his cigarette between his lips began to pick.†
Chpt 117-118
- As each company had its bin measured it gathered up its things and, chatting again now that work was over, sauntered out of the garden.†
Chpt 119-120
- In due course one by one the idlers got up and sauntered back to the meadow where supper was cooking.†
Chpt 119-120
Definitions:
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(1)
(saunter) to walk leisurely
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)