It is a great art to saunter. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American philosopher and naturalist.]
He walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1] Reference
(He had gotten 'saunter' from listening to Daddy's character, the "cool guy," No Way Jose.) 1 comment | Leave a comment. From Wordnik.com. [How do you saunter?] Reference
So the word 'saunter' with its modern significance comes from the old days of the Crusades. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Constantinople] Reference
I saw Mac saunter up the steps and disappear from view. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
I saunter round the corner onto Third Avenue and stop short. From Wordnik.com. [It’s like this, cat] Reference
When you re-emerge freshly eager, while I to leisure, saunter. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
He would saunter up and down the kitchen for half-an-hour at a time. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Never interrupting his leisurely saunter, Percy passed out of hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
You're supposed to be able to saunter in and out of it without consequence. From Wordnik.com. [‘Blood’, Money and Death] Reference
He pulled up; looked over the cut-under and the horse, and began to saunter about. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Her wiggly hand sprouts into view and I saunter over to the table she is waiting at. From Wordnik.com. [Agitated Birds] Reference
His gait was a swift, uncertain shuffle, a compromise between a saunter and a dog-trot. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Today's Bluetoothed businessmen saunter, lost in colloquies with invisible interlocutors. From Wordnik.com. [The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter] Reference
In a delightful way, the hermit of Walden tells us how to take walks, how to truly saunter. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
He saw her enter the cottage, and waited until she left the house to saunter down the avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference
Laura imagined her favorite aunt walking as she did in that slow saunter. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
Next day, when Handy called on him, he found his irrepressible friend preparing to saunter forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
That very same afternoon, wandering about the station, I chanced to saunter into the ticket-office. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
The friars and priests saunter along, some in long white many-overlapping capes, and some in gowns. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
I watch the larger tiger cat drop from the drain board and saunter out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Key West with Poo and Company] Reference
Clive, as Davis is universally referred to in the business, isn't one to quietly saunter out to pasture. From Wordnik.com. [The Day The Music Stopped] Reference
Bunny, Minnie and Wimpy saunter into the arena wearing nothing but their red headdresses and red anklets. From Wordnik.com. [HIP HOP BIG TOP] Reference
He sauntered out leisurely; he did not saunter out of the main door, or, if he did, the fixer failed to meet him. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Maurice is now 66 years old, but you wouldn't know it as you watch him slide and saunter and tap across the stage. From Wordnik.com. [With Manzari Brothers, Hines Taps A New Generation] Reference
He saw him crawl a considerable distance from the hut, then rise to his feet and saunter carelessly towards the fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
She'd go outside and call out the calico's name, and before long, Cami would saunter up, meow, and wait to be picked up. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Most Feline] Reference
In my Virginia hometown, people perambulated when they could not drive at a pace somewhere between a saunter and a stroll. From Wordnik.com. [The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter] Reference
Don't scurry, I tell myself, don't saunter, and whatever you do, don't look back, there won't be a chance to edit the take. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
Two prefects were to make it their business to saunter past the box whenever they could and keep an eye on pigeon-hole "S.". From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Above, a line of camels saunter across a stretch of land dotted with yellow-flowered tumble thistle and tiny pink sun roses. From Wordnik.com. [Mine Land] Reference
Still, he sees the girl who used to saunter down the hallways in school, eyelids heavy and voice loud and bouncing off the lockers. From Wordnik.com. [Nightswimming] Reference
The distance was but one day's walk; which one day's walk, however, the humor of the wanderer stretched into a saunter of three days. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
A waitress with a bustling saunter hurried from behind the counter with a heavy plate of food balanced on each hand. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
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