She liked to perambulate the room with the duster in her hand. From LearnThat.org.
Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
While healthy elephants can trudge long distances in search of water, "weak and sick" animals are unable to "perambulate" and succumb, says forest veterinarian Dr N.S. Manoharan. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
He this evening recommended to me to perambulate Spain. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
We may have to perambulate about the park an extra time or too. From Wordnik.com. [12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006] Reference
Caliph and his Vizier used to perambulate the streets of Baghdad. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
But never a salary day that the "white specter" did not perambulate. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Unlike the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg is where Parisians go to perambulate. From Wordnik.com. [What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Wife and I took a jaunt out to the city forest this morning, hoping to perambulate the bog boardwalk, but it was closed. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday roadkill report] Reference
You'll love it, I know cause you love novels about pigs that fly and live on Park Avenue and perambulate through the park. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-29] Reference
Let him perambulate the bounds of imagination's provinces, the realms of faery, and not the insignificant boundaries of towns. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
In the centre of the grassy quadrangle about which the cloisters perambulate is a small, mean, brick building, with a locked door. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Harmodius which putteth down one tyrant, and not like Hercules who did perambulate the world to suppress tyrants and giants and monsters in every part. From Wordnik.com. [Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature] Reference
Happy fathers, too, with their wives and children in Sunday best, perambulate the grounds or rest on the seats amongst the trees and listen to the 'Bosch-muziek.'. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
She liked to perambulate the room with a duster in her hand, with which she stopped to polish the backs of already lustrous books, musing and romancing as she did so. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
He twice recommended Boswell to perambulate Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
Patrols began to be formed, and to perambulate the streets. From Wordnik.com. [History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814] Reference
BEIRUT: Temperatures and humidity levels routinely perambulate to. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Actress, Model and Designer Molly Sims Partners With Plastics Make it Possible(SM) and Gen Art for 'New Garde' Fashion Show] Reference
George Emerson continued to perambulate and Aline continued to watch him. From Wordnik.com. [Something New] Reference
As I thus perambulate, with my book generally open, the villagers treat me as Sir Roger De. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
"If the gentleman wishes to perambulate America, it is probable he will get there with a little patience.". From Wordnik.com. [Homeward Bound or, the Chase] Reference
At the termination of the mass, troops of women perambulate the streets, during the remainder of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
"Come, poor fellow," she said then in a gentle tone, and Annie and the dog began to perambulate round the tents. From Wordnik.com. [A World of Girls The Story of a School] Reference
Giuliano was up early and at 7.30 a brass band began to perambulate the town to announce that the festa had begun. From Wordnik.com. [Diversions in Sicily] Reference
In one of the cable tramway cars which, at a reverential pace, perambulate the city of Edinburgh, two citizens conversed. From Wordnik.com. [The Prodigal Father] Reference
The manager did not often perambulate the office, but he did occasionally, and the interview which ensued upon his finding. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
Since Laveuve was dead, of what use was it for him to kill time and perambulate the pavements pending the arrival of six o'clock?. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1] Reference
Sangster used to perambulate here, a telescope in hand, watching for the annual Hudson's Bay Company's ship, the signal being two guns. From Wordnik.com. [Some Reminiscences of old Victoria] Reference
On that evening parties of young people perambulate the parishes in which the custom is retained, exclaiming as they throw the sherds. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
We can walk to the park and downtown, and perambulate around our neighborhoods mostly without the fears and apprehensions associated with urban milieus. From Wordnik.com. [TrishAndHalli.com] Reference
Nightly did the hereditary prince of the land perambulate the streets of his capital, disguised, well armed, alone, or with a single confidential attendant. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Heemskirk would land on the point and perambulate silently every part of the plantation as if the whole place belonged to him, before her went to the house. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
Southport just as we left it, with its regular streets of little and big lodging-houses, where the visitors perambulate to and fro without any imaginable object. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
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