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  • noun Plural form of wanderer.

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Examples

  • We have become what they call wanderers, and should be safe enough among the Russian peasants, most of whom have been convicts in their time, in the villages north, for they are always willing enough to help men who have taken to the woods.

    Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Walter Paget 1867

  • The Nowhere ManThe transcontinental tribe of wanderers is growing, global souls for whom home is everywhere and nowhere.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • These it is that liken girls to boys, of their exceeding profligacy and ungraciousness and inclination to follow the fiend and own lusts, so that they say, ‘She is apt for two tricks, ’245 and these are all wanderers from the way of right and the righteous.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The planets are often called wanderers in the sky because of their ever changing position.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • The planets - the "wanderers" - required a bit of explaining, which is why the story starts with them.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • I believe we are much better off today than were back when Planets were known as wanderers in the sky.

    ideonexus.com » 2006 » August 2006

  • I believe we are much better off today than were back when Planets were known as wanderers in the sky.

    Pluto is a Planet 2006

  • The association of the wanderers was a very intimate one.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The son of the bondmaid had attained, during the life of Abraham, a distinction beyond that of the son of the wife; and his immediate descendant rose to wealth and honour, while, if one branch of Isaac's family tasted prosperity, those recognised as the heirs of that mysterious blessing were long known as wanderers, and then despised as slaves.

    Notable Women of Olden Time Anonymous

  • To these categories canonists have added one which the Roman origo, being permanent, could not recognize, namely the wanderers (vagi), who have no fixed residence or who, having definitely abandoned one domicile, have not as yet acquired another.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

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