All 4 Uses of
amble
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- Your house" ' He looked around the front hall, took in all the signs of cleaning, ambled over and peered into the parlor, and put on an exaggerated mock expression of being impressed.†
- We both laughed, ambling on towards the house.
*ambling = walking leisurely
- The Pierce bounced onto the curb of the monument, grazing the marble where it says OUR NOBLE DEAD, then ambled across the street and bumped to a stop against the sycamore tree near the cast-iron watering trough in front of Grandpa's store.†
- One morning before school I was stacking big sacks of cow feed and guano outside against the brick wall of the store when Grandpa ambled out, spat brown tobacco juice through a crack in the board sidewalk, and said, "Will Tweedy, you know the mill boy thet come in here a while back wantin' a job?†
Definition:
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(amble) to walk leisurely or slowly