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- noun Plural form of
saunterer .
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Examples
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They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.
July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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By God, there was I, on the brink of another war, slaving my innards into knots, while she was tripping about in a Mayfair ball-room, laughing and darting chase-me glances at party-saunterers and young gallants, having a fine time for hours on end, and she hadn't been able to spare me five minutes for a tumble!
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.
henry david thoreau | happy birthday, henry! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Being kind of an aggressive person myself, I love to close on these saunterers at a rate that gets their attention.
About town in London | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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When they had taken two or three turns up and down the room, the saunterers were called upon to give place to the dancers.
Camilla 2008
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The chest-out saunterers, the timid flitterers, the greedy ones.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The chest-out saunterers, the timid flitterers, the greedy ones.
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They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.
Walking 1969
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Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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I take _basilica_ to mean the saunterers in a basilica, as we might say "the park" for the company in it, "the exchange" for the brokers in it.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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