perambulating


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per·am·bu·late

(pə-răm′byə-lāt′)
v. per·am·bu·lat·ed, per·am·bu·lat·ing, per·am·bu·lates
v.tr.
1. To walk through.
2. To inspect (an area) on foot.
v.intr.
To walk about; roam or stroll.
[Latin perambulāre, perambulāt- : per-, per- + ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]
per·am′bu·la′tion n.
per·am′bu·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.
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Adj. 1. perambulating - strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids with their charges"
mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
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Perambulating refutations are ye, of belief itself, and a dislocation of all thought.
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They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
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But do you suppose I was going to walk into church beside a perambulating haystack like that?"
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The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies, and what not.
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Once, when the command had first come to the field, some perambulating veterans, noting the length of their column, had accosted them thus: "Hey, fellers, what brigade is that?" And when the men had replied that they formed a regiment and not a brigade, the older soldiers had laughed, and said, "O Gawd!"
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His attitude towards a member of the peerage was that of the terrier to the perambulating cat.
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You are a chimney, a living volcano, a perambulating smoke-stack, and you are a perfect disgrace, Martin dear, you know you are."
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He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms.
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Stragglers arrived in groups continually; but once here those perambulating corpses separated; each begged for himself a place near a fire; repulsed repeatedly, they met again, to obtain by force the hospitality already refused to them.
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"Walking--riding--yachting--I suppose the most momentous conversations of my life took place while perambulating the great court at Trinity.
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Bishop, mentally perambulating among paths of peace, was altogether swallowed up in absence of mind.
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But having a keen ear for impish sentiment, your perambulating pensioner heard pleasure purr behind his message.
I wandered lonely as a Carthaginian general ... The Bard of Birkenhead

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