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dandering .
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Examples
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His home, if home he had, was at Galashiels; but he went "daundering" about the country, along the green shaws and beside the burns, and was a kind of walking chronicle throughout the valleys of the Tweed, the Ettrick, and the Yarrow; carrying the gossip from house to house, commenting on the inhabitants and their concerns, and never hesitating to give them a dry rub as to any of their faults or follies.
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Washington Irving 1821
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Macleod in his Journal, 'after daundering in a green field with a path through it which led to the high-road, and while sitting on a block of granite, full of quiet thoughts, mentally reposing in the midst of the beautiful scenery, I was aroused from my reverie by some one asking me if
Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous
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Oh, sirs, imagine yoursell daundering out to Canaan, to take your kail wi 'our frien' James, and as ye're passing the Links, out jumps a lion, and at you!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Various
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Shortly thereafter she was daundering on the craigs wi 'twa-three sodgers, and it was a blawy day.
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It would have touched you to the heart to see poor Jess Donaldson daundering about, opening drawers and presses to find something to give me.
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"Step out!" she cried, "here is Jamie Logan with a pocket full of great news; and the fish is frying itself black, while you two are daundering, as if it was your very business and duty to keep hungry folk waiting their dinner for you."
A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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If that poor Hepzibah had helped herself when she was a gal, she wouldn't be such a daundering creetur now, and
White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873
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Shortly thereafter she was daundering on the craigs wi 'twa-three sodgers, and it was a blawy day.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Shortly thereafter she was daundering on the craigs wi 'twa-three sodgers, and it was a blawy day.
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What garred ye come daundering to these weary flats of France? '
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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