sauntering

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I, for one, feel rather as though I had seen a calm milch cow sauntering--at first slowly--along a path, gradually evolve into a tiger--a genie with a hundred heads containing all the marvels of the world--a flying dragon with a thousand eyes!

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  1. Venturing; audacity (?). Thoo sawes schall rewe hym sore For all his saunteryng sone. York Plays, p. 351. Nowe all his gaudis no thyng hym gaynes, His sauntering schall with bale be bought. York Plays, p. 354.
  2. The act of strolling idly, dawdling, or loitering.

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  • There was nothing sick-sounding about them, nothing at all There should have been SHORTLY another man came to the pipe-truck, coming idly, sauntering, pretending he was out for a walk. —  141 - Satan Black
  • The ghostly Diane disappeared in the act of sauntering, slim and assured, toward the bathroom don't even really look at me, not when we make love or Eyes shut, I groped for the bedroom door. —  Omni: Winter 1995
  • As I watched them impatiently—but carefully—dodge sauntering, leisure-class shoppers, I thought of Brownian motion and wondered whether there might exist some algebraic function capable of mapping trajectories from the microscopic domain onto the pedestrian. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
  • John Hawkins wrote that he was "in his person a large and portly man", adding: "His gait which was ever sauntering, was rather ungraceful as it had in it somewhat of that rocking motion which distinguishes those whose legs are bowed." —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The sauntering, slyly smiling curtain call was even more confounding. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
 

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  1. from Middle English saunteryng; verbal noun of saunter, v.
 

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