stravaiging

• Then he began to chuckle: "I wad hae liked dooms weel to hae seen you stravaiging —  A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
• "I met him stravaiging the vacant street last night; that was all." —  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
• a very queer contrivance to be stravaiging with on a summer day. " —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• They were aye, for a time, driving their cattle through the town on the Lord's day or stravaiging about the roads and woods, or drinking and listening to pipers piping in the change-houses at time of sermon, fond, as all our people are by nature, of the hearty open air, and the smell of woods, and lusty sounds like the swing of the seas and pipers playing old tunes. —  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
• "Ay, where have _you_ been stravaiging to?" he would drawl; and if she answered meekly, "I was taking a dander to the linn owre-bye," "The —  The House with the Green Shutters

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