excursive

• He could not have made the satiated and meditative Harold so darkling and excursive, so lone, “aweary,” and misanthropical, had he treated him as the hero of a scholastic epic. —  The Life of Lord Byron
• To a writer, also, who could at once handle the pen of the biographer and of the poet, few names would offer a more ample field for the excursive range of historical romance than the life of Henry of Monmouth. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
• He was desperately excursive, and spoke almost for an hour, but the prospect of £4000 to my children made me a patient auditor. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
• If novelty is the parent of pleasure, here it may be found; for although the subject itself is the same, some new view of it, some fresh discovery of its wonders, is ever bursting upon the mind of the devout and attentive inquirer after truth How then can religion be otherwise than pleasant, when it is the exercise of the noble faculties of the mind, upon the sublimest topics of mental investigation; the voluntary, excursive, endless pursuits of the human understanding in the region of eternal truth. —  Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness
• He could not have made the satiated and meditative Harold so darkling and excursive, so lone, "aweary," and misanthropical, had he treated him as the hero of a scholastic epic. —  The Life of Lord Byron

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