Wandered Sentence Examples

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  • For a long time he wandered in fear from place to place.

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  • They hadn't wandered that far today.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face, coming back to her eyes.

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  • She sighed and wandered through the spotless kitchen.

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  • Jackson wandered around the studio while waiting for Elisabeth to pack.

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  • The bay wandered up and nibbled at the hay.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face.

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  • Destiny wandered off to her room to play.

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  • Her gaze wandered to the path to the building.

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  • I wandered around their living room.

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  • As a girl, she had wandered the woods with friends.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face in contemplation.

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  • After the dishes were done and the beds made, she usually wandered around the house or sat in the yard, soaking up sun.

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  • His eyes wandered over her face, but he gave no indication that he understood her, much less that he wanted to respond.

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  • The Quincys wandered into the crowded parlor.

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  • For a moment his gaze wandered over her face reflectively.

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  • Dean wandered up the penstock trail, the path he and Cynthia followed earlier, where Donald Ryland had climbed.

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  • When she didn't respond, his gaze wandered over her face.

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  • Cade wandered across the room and stared out the patio doors, sipping from the coffee mug.

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  • His bloodshot gaze wandered over her figure in a way that made her regret leaving her beach robe in the house.

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  • Cynthia was peeling potatoes when Claudette wandered into the kitchen.

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  • Her thoughts turned dark as her mind wandered to Brady.

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  • Fred wandered into the kitchen as Dean was reading the label of a Campbell's soup can in hopes of creating an exotic sauce for his broiling fish.

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  • Dean wandered to the kitchen for pie and coffee for the guests while the others chattered in the parlor.

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  • Petreius, he wandered about as a fugitive.

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  • The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another.

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  • She wandered through the house, peering out the window until she spotted a small shed.

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  • Alex and Bill had wandered off with Jonathan and the twins, as usual, which left Carmen with Katie and Destiny.

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  • She wandered down stairs and into the kitchen.

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  • For many days he wandered through rough and dangerous places.

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  • When she was not occupied, she wandered restlessly about the house, making strange though rarely unpleasant sounds.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face in that familiar way.

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  • Later, as she was straining the water from the potatoes, Cade wandered in.

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  • Now and then his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in imagination a new plan of life.

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  • It was very bitter, but they wandered about the fields seeking it and dug it out with their sabers and ate it, though they were ordered not to do so, as it was a noxious plant.

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  • Brandon Westlake wandered in and was overjoyed at the news of the upcoming sale.

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  • She ate her dinner on the back porch then wandered out onto the beach barefooted.

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  • He wandered back to his office, listening to only silence as he passed Ryland's door.

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  • I had never crossed it until one day Mildred, Miss Sullivan and I were lost in the woods, and wandered for hours without finding a path.

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  • With nothing more to do, she wandered in to watch him shave.

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  • Only this time his lips left hers and wandered to her neck, sending her heartbeat into frenzy.

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  • She wandered the mansion as she often did, restless and starving.

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  • Dean asked as Donnie wandered out of the room and up the stairs.

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  • He wasn't quite ready for sleep so he wandered back to the parlor, sat in the back corner and picked up a biking magazine.

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  • In his civilian clothes and a round hat, he wandered about the town, staring at the French and their uniforms and at the streets and houses where the Russian and French Emperors were staying.

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  • A man who wandered out into the wasteland.

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  • His gaze wandered away in reflective thought.

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  • She sighed and wandered absently into the kitchen.

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  • It was on one of these occasions that she wandered farther than she realized.

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  • Dean wandered back to the kitchen, where his wife was fixing supper.

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  • His thoughts wandered to Billy Langstrom's love-widow Melissa, now absent even those precious two commodities with which to face the world.

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  • Megan wandered, looking through piles of sweaters and pants.

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  • She wandered the courtyard, looking for any sign of Ully or anyone she recognized.

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  • It was toward the end of her first week in the sprawling mansion that was her new home that she wandered down a hall previously unexplored.

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  • She wandered back to the safety of her room, wanting paper and pencils, her favorite jeans … anything familiar to comfort her.

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  • She wandered until she found an exit and stepped into a beautiful midmorning.

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  • Afterward, she was writing some information down in her dairy journal when Alex wandered by.

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  • Flipping on the radio, she wandered into the barn.

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  • Brutus wandered upstream, pausing to lap at the cool water.

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  • As she was putting it in a saucer, he wandered into the living room, looking at something in his hand.

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  • She wandered down stream to the place where they had drug huge slabs of stone to make a walkway across the creek.

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  • Believing she had wandered off into the tenement stairwell, Colleen went in search of the errant animal.

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  • Anyway, this lot got to the end of the street, shouted a few incomprehensible taunts at me, then wandered off.

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  • At the end of the service, some had wandered into the south transept.

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  • My eyes wandered to the fruit tress on the left of the brook.

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  • Fan-tailed warblers sung, as did a very secretive Reed Warbler, and a few Little and Cattle Egrets wandered over.

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  • As a youth he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, whence he was expelled on account of his severe strictures on the laxity of others, and thence wandered to Bagdad, where he attached himself to the school of the orthodox doctor al Ashari.

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  • But the pay was small, and Avicenna wandered from place to place through the districts of Nishapur and Mer y to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents.

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  • He wandered from village to village and town to town, preaching to enormous audiences, always in the open air; the earnestness and straightforward eloquence with which he insisted that true repentance came from the heart, that pious pilgrimages and the absolution of the Church were mere outward symbols, appealed to all classes.

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  • For three years he wandered about trying in vain to recover his lost possessions; at last, in 5504, he gathered some troops, and crossing the snowy Hindu Kush besieged and captured the strong city of Kabul.

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  • In consequence of his views on transubstantiation and the immaculate conception he was accused of impiety, and after enduring persecution for some years, he fled from Rome about 1576, and wandered through various cities, reaching Geneva in 1579.

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  • We sailed on the Hudson River and wandered about on its green banks, of which Bryant loved to sing.

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  • Natasha had no desire to go out anywhere and wandered from room to room like a shadow, idle and listless.

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  • Fan-tailed Warblers sung, as did a very secretive Reed Warbler, and a few Little and Cattle Egrets wandered over.

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  • Beguiled by the lights and noises, Lilly's toddler wandered off and got lost in the mall.

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  • We've all wandered into a pet store and found our way into the small animal section, only to be surrounded by all those adorable rodents.

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  • The Sinai excursion offered by Sonesta Moon Goddess takes you into the same historical setting where Moses and the Jews wandered for 40 years in the "wilderness," and where he received the Ten Commandments on St. Catharine Mountain.

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  • A break came in 2009, when she wandered into a recording session for fellow Dr. Luke artist Flo Rida.

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  • Elvis wandered into Memphis' famed Sun Studios and dropped this track, which just happened to have the right recipe for what we now call rock and roll.

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  • She has wandered into dangerous places while not paying any attention to what's going on around her, since her attention is focused on finding more rocks.

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  • Was he going to say something about the fact that she wandered too far from the house?

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  • Dean rose and wandered out to the front porch but in spite of his sterling speech, and overwhelming wish that he could forget the Shiptons and all the grief they had brought him, he couldn't quite chase the unfinished business from his churning mind.

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  • Everyone was exceptionally friendly as hundreds of bicyclists wandered about, chatting and smiling, with a hint of nervous excitement in their voices.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face, resting on her lips.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face again, this time stopping at her eyes.

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  • She followed the plan, had the picture in-hand and was locking the door to the house when Brutus wandered up with a bloody muzzle.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face and then his brows lifted.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face - casting around for clues, no doubt.

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  • That dark chocolate gaze wandered over her face and then came back to her eyes.

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  • The next morning when she was feeding the horses, Brutus wandered up with something in his mouth.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face absently and then finally returned to his food.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face, his expression still sober.

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  • She wandered over to watch him brush Ed.

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  • For a moment his gaze wandered over her face in that disturbing way that increased her pulse.

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  • The dark eyes wandered over her face in reflective silence.

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  • She wandered into the living room and stared out the bay window.

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  • She left the house and wandered across the field, taking in the beauty of the country.

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  • He armed himself and stopped to pet one of the cats that had wandered into his room to sleep on his bed.

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  • They wandered the hallways on the main floor until finding one that led to a side door of the large, stone building.

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  • The city changed as she wandered the zigzag roads toward its center until she came upon an inner wall - -now open - -leading to stone structures gleaming with gold and silver artwork.

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  • Down here it was as if the ghosts of soldiers wandered.

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  • For a moment his gaze wandered over her face.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face for a moment and then her attire.

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  • His gaze wandered over her face and came back to her eyes.

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  • She wandered toward the verandah, considering everything necessary to prepare for the trip.

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  • After a shower and breakfast, she tidied the cabin and wandered around.

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  • There is evidence that about three centuries ago elephants wandered in the forests of Malwa and Nimar, while they survived to a later date in the Chanda district of the Central Provinces.

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  • When Roland heard of his wife's condemnation, he wandered some miles from his refuge in Rouen; maddened by despair and grief, he wrote a few words expressive of his horror at those massacres which could only be inspired by the enemies of France, protesting that "from the moment when I learned that they had murdered my wife I would no longer remain in a world stained with enemies."

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  • Burke, Wills and King, when they found themselves so fearfully left alone and unprovided in the wilderness, wandered about in that district till near the end of June.

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  • The legislature wandered about from town to town until 1808, when the capital was permanently located at Montpelier.

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  • Journeys were also made by land, and, among others, the entertaining author of the Crudities, Thomas Coryate, of Odcombe in Somersetshire, wandered on foot from France to India, and died (1617) in the company's factory at Surat.

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  • After this they are said to have wandered through regions which cannot now be identified, apparently between the Elbe and the Oder, under legendary kings, the first of whom was Agilmund, the son of Aio.

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  • Semitic tribes wandered northwards from their home in Arabia to seek sustenance in its more fertile fields, to plunder, or to escape the pressure of tribes in the rear.

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  • Mark Bell crossed the continent in 1887 and illustrated its ancient trade routes, following the steps of Archibald Colquhoun, who wandered from Peking to Talifu in 1881.

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  • The Carnivora are likewise numerous; and this region may be considered as the true home of the tiger, though this animal has wandered far north into the Palaearctic division of Asia.

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  • For 23 years he wandered far and wide, bringing comfort and succour to his co-religionists, and often very narrowly escaping capture.

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  • It has been suggested that their separation did not take place until after the continent which once existed in the north Pacific had become submerged, and that the Malays wandered northward, while the Polynesian race spread itself over the islands of the southern archipelago.

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  • In the north part of the east coast, in the region of Scoresby Fjord and Franz Josef Fjord, numerous ruins of Eskimo settlements are found, and in 1823 Clavering met Eskimo there, but now they have either completely died out or have wandered south.

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  • From this place he again fled and wandered about for some time in a wretched fashion, still writing the Confessions, constantly receiving generous help, and always quarrelling with, or at least suspecting, the helpers.

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  • He wandered far and wide, and engaged in much philosophical and theological debate.

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  • It has been suggested that they were the work of Arabs who had wandered thus far from the south.

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  • A long succession of nomad Turkish tribes, pressing forward from central Asia, wandered over the rich country in search of fresh pastures for their flocks and herds.

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  • For thirteen years of his life Confucius wandered about from state to state, seeking rest and patrons; but his journeyings were confined within the modern provinces of Ho-nan and Shantung, and the borders of Chih-li and Hu-peh.

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  • Roscellinus, the famous canon of Compiegne, is mentioned by himself as his teacher; but whether he heard this champion of extreme Nominalism in early youth, when he wandered about from school to school for instruction and exercise, or some years later, after he had already begun to teach for himself, remains uncertain.

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  • Soon after, if not on the very day when his followers had left him, he wandered out towards the banks of the Neranjara, receiving his morning meal from the hands of Sujata, the daughter of a neighbouring villager, and set himself down to eat it under the shade of a large tree (a Ficus religiosa), to be known from that time as the sacred Bo tree or tree of wisdom.

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  • Into the space between the walls of the coelom and the outer body-wall, originally filled with jelly, definite cells now wandered, chiefly derived from the coelomic walls.

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  • Droves of swine under the charge of swineherds wandered through the forests; some belonged to the ri, others to lords (flaith) and others again to village communities.

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  • With her remaining child she wandered, under the name of duchesse de Saint-Leu, from Geneva to Aix, Carlsruhe and Augsburg.

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  • He left home, and with only one attendant crossed the Alps, and wandered through Burgundy and France.

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  • After the failure of the Kuo Min-tang's " war to punish Yuan," Sun wandered again in a wilderness of conspiracies.

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  • Osiris introduced civilization into Egypt, and then wandered over the world, making men acquainted with agriculture and the arts, as Pund-jel in his humbler way did in Australia.

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  • Isis wandered, mourning, in search of the body, as Demeter sought Persephone, and perhaps in Plutarch's late version some incidents may be borrowed from the Eleusinian legend.

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  • Part wandered eastward to found a Mahommedan state in Crete.

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  • As she approached, Yancey was no where in sight, so she nonchalantly wandered over to the pool.

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  • She wandered back to the safety of her room, wanting paper and pencils, her favorite jeans … anything familiar to comfort her.

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  • He was quiet, and her thoughts wandered to Anshan and her alleged, vague duty to the people.

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  • Together they had hurried to Janet O'Brien's trailer in hopes of catching Donnie before he wandered unexpectedly into the macabre turmoil his mother had caused in her violent exit from life.

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  • Actually, Alex did look into her eyes a lot – and his gaze wandered over her face sometimes in a way that left her wondering what was on his mind.

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  • A few years ago a three year old boy called Benny wandered off alone onto an electric railroad line.

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  • The people who had been slaves in Egypt have wandered for 40 years in a very circuitous route.

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  • I wandered the snaking stone streets up to the castle and into palace courtyards, including that of Francisco de Orellana.

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  • It was a walk which never faltered, stumbled, or wandered.

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  • One day, while I was out chasing gophers, I wandered off too far.

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  • I wandered around the ponds, up hills and down grassy knolls.

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  • You do not even have to have been bitten by a lycanthrope in a misty forest where you have stupidly wandered.

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  • They wandered far South to the Arabian peninsular to dwell among the desert nomads; there Ishmael founded the Arabic people.

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  • A giant robot ship has wandered into the galaxy and is destroying planets in its path, digesting the debris for fuel.

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  • As the buffalo wandered the prairies, they stirred up insects that the = cowbirds ate.

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  • From here I wandered down the valley and into some steep and astonishingly beautiful woods that contained more primroses than I have ever seen.

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  • The path wandered a while in the open, and then passed under a trellis like a bower indefinitely prolonged.

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  • Had a picnic in a park there then wandered round the town for awhile!

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  • He wandered around with a very sad frown on his face.

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  • He now wandered from country to country, occupied in ceaseless intrigues with Louis XVIII., or for setting up an Orleanist monarchy, until in 1804 he settled in England, where the government conferred on him a pension of £1200 a year.

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  • Had a picnic in a park there then wandered round the town for awhile !

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  • Then we wandered round various bars where jazz & folk groups were entertaining the thronging masses.

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  • At the end of the service, some had wandered into the South transept.

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  • Kate wandered blindly back to pick up the post and close the vestibule door.

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  • It was a tent, really, for pilgrims who wandered through the wilderness going from Egypt to the promised Canaan land.

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  • We wandered across to the main stage and caught the end of Marilyn Manson.

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  • So, he wandered into Christmas Land and loved what he saw, so much so, he wanted to bring this holiday to those in Halloween Land.

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  • His gaze dropped to her face and wandered over it.

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  • I am His gaze wandered over her face again.

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  • His bittersweet chocolate gaze wandered over her face in search of something, or maybe he was digesting the information.

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  • She wandered around the house with a foreboding that this was the last time she would see it.

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  • One beautiful day followed another and she gradually wandered farther from the house exploring the ranch - sometimes on horseback, sometimes on foot.

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  • His expression was bland, but those delicious chocolate eyes wandered over her face in a disturbingly familiar way before he shut the door.

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  • She wandered into the house, uncertain what she sought.

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  • While Dean had wandered up to the area with Cynthia's son Randy on a few occasions, she had steadfastly stayed away.

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  • Anyway, she's just a stray that wandered up one day and attached herself to us.

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  • She wandered along the fence line examining every post for possible weakness.

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  • I was born, wandered the Immortal world for the first few years.

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  • Toby hunched his shoulders.  He'd wandered far enough away from camp that he'd hoped to get some food before running from Ully, who was still sleeping.

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  • DeLeo was all ears now and even Harrigan wandered over in Dean's direction.

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  • Dean rose to meet him and the two wandered to a quiet section of the park before Dean questioned him.

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  • Actually, Alex did look into her eyes a lot – and his gaze wandered over her face sometimes in a way that left her wondering what was on his mind.

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  • His gaze wandered over her and then came back to her eyes.

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  • Later, when Felipa was outside with the children and Carmen was cooking lunch, Alex wandered into the kitchen.

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  • All this excessive labour for the stage had undermined the great poet's health, and in 1725 he had determined to take the baths at Aix-la-Chapelle; but instead of going thither he wandered through Belgium to Paris, and spent the winter there.

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  • Then, in 1652, he was arrested and imprisoned, first at Vincennes, then at Nantes; he escaped, however, after two years' captivity, and for some time wandered about in various countries.

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  • Under the protection of a sheikh of the Fukara Bedouin he wandered over the whole of the borderland between Hejaz and Nejd.

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  • The teachers of these new opinions were men of high character and holy lives, who in spite of persecution wandered from place to place, and made many converts from those who were dissatisfied at the want of clerical discipline which followed upon the struggle for temporal supremacy into which the reforming projects of Gregory VII.

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  • He learned how to set type, and as a journeyman printer he wandered widely, going even as far east as New York.

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  • He wandered about in Turin for some time, and at last established himself as footman to a Madame de Vercellis.

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  • He wandered from place to place preaching, and finally went to Eisfeld (1553), where he died.

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  • The principal palace of Mexico consisted of hundreds of rooms ranged round three open squares, of such extent that one of the companions of Cortes records having four times wandered about till he was tired, without seeing the whole.

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  • Hunted hither and thither, he wandered on foot or cruised restlessly in open boats among the many barren isles of the Scottish shore,enduring the greatest hardships with marvellous courage and cheerfulness.

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  • He wandered over Europe in disguise, alienating the friends and crushing the hopes of his party; and in 1766, on returning to Rome at the death of his father, he was treated by Pope Clement XIII.

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  • When released he wandered first to Mercia, then to Wessex and finally to Sussex.

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  • Between the date of her death in 1758 and his own on the 10th of August 17 J9 he fell into a state of prostration in which he would not even dress, but wandered unshaven, unwashed and in a nightgown about his park.

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  • He left the Daltons, and wandered from place to place, resting when he found friends to provide for his wants.

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  • Many of these stories and fables have wandered to Europe, and are found in medieval homilies, poems and story-books.

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  • Under Judas Maccabeus the outlaws wandered up and down re-establishing by force their proscribed religion.

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  • Fritz, Royce and Davis wandered back to their wagons.

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  • No one now seemed to pay any attention to the strangers, so Dorothy and Zeb and the Wizard let the train pass on and then wandered by themselves into the vegetable gardens.

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  • What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?

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  • She wandered through the room, trailing her fingers across the tables.

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