perambulating nursemaids with their charges. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A friend to Jingle; a kind of perambulating hydraulic. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
They are pre-eminently locomotive and perambulating. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He and the sack of beans became a perambulating tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [THE TASTE OF THE MEAT] Reference
Samm's axe was useless against such a perambulating colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
It also includes perambulating the shrines of departed saints. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Branches leaned in the direction of the perambulating sycamore. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
"Ah, I see; she's to be a kind of a perambulating figure-piece.". From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"Sounds like a perambulating bigamist," said Killigrew, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
A perambulating Circus has pitched its tent on the Village Green!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892] Reference
Spaniel, poor Brother Bob stands in need of, perambulating the Gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
His sister nodded slowly, her eyes focused on the perambulating player. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
A glance back showed that the perambulating tributary was closing on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
All of the food was perambulating; in different ways, by different means. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
What struck me on the ride up through the city was the perambulating bath. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
Vaughn Greanelle is for all the world like a perambulating manikin to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
He was a perambulating skeleton, and could just drag along; but he got there. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
And such, as everyone knows, is fit accompaniment for a perambulating Forsyte. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Property] Reference
You are a perambulating dry plate upon which outside objects produce their images. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
“As a literary people,” you wrote, “we are one vast perambulating humbug.”. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
His last view was of her perambulating form drifting suggestively toward the stairway. From Wordnik.com. [The End of The Matter]
Kinda like a perambulating prime, I know I'll get there but I don't know how to get there. From Wordnik.com. [seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #29: Outlines.] Reference
Each group that moved west was a perambulating arsenal with guns bristling from every angle. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
"Ah," said Gaggii softly, regarding the sergeant as casually as he might a perambulating bee. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEXICAN] Reference
Looking down at the sand he put out a foot to impede the progress of a perambulating hermit crab. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
They joined the conventional, perambulating couples, their shadows, lengthened before them, apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
I do like perambulating London streets by gaslight -- of course with a gentleman to take care of one. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Soon they were back in the perambulating crowd, chattering, laughing, listening to the band upon the river. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Those people, with their vast memory, are like perambulating libraries; they instruct, they amuse, they edify. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
After perambulating the principal thoroughfares, the people bring the standard back to its own 'Áshúr Khána. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
The man was a perambulating disaster wherever he went; he couldn't touch something without destroying or fouling it. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
"Why, it is enough to raise the dead," exclaimed a solitary traveler, a stranger in town, perambulating a neighboring bluff. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
She summarizes the scene as "a perambulating picture-gallery, illustrative of national variety in form and feature" (Letter Fourteenth). From Wordnik.com. [Louise A. K. S. Clappe, "Dame Shirley"] Reference
Eyeing the perambulating carnival of alien grotesqueries, Walker wondered how to go about approaching even the least off-putting of them. From Wordnik.com. [Lost And Found]
The three satellites were also rising, their perambulating orbits bringing them into alignment in this manner only once every three years. From Wordnik.com. [Surfeit]
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