"Perambulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being the chief recreations, and getting as good a dinner as possible, perhaps practise at the Beacon, a barrel riddled with bullets, and standing on a long pole. This beacon was a mark for ships. Another stood near the water to the north. Captain Sangster used to perambulate here, a telescope in hand, watching for the annual Hudson's Bay Company's ship, ...
— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett
... what the human for perambulate is, but I'll walk plum to the hottest fire in your settlement, if that's all ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... which the boys were wont, At breaking-up for Christmas' lov'd recess, To meet the master, on the happy morn, At early hour; the custom, too, prevail'd, That he who first the seminary reach'd Should, instantly, perambulate the streets With sounding horn, to rouse his fellows up; And, as a compensation for his care, His flourish'd copies, and his chapter-task, Before the rest, he from the master had. For many days, ere breaking-up ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson
... whom they maie consorte in summer sheene, And dance the haidegaies on our toune-greene, As alas at Easter, or at Pentecost, Perambulate the ...
— The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo • Thomas Nash
... unbuttoned the coat and grimy waistcoat he would not have discovered much more in the shape of vestments. But he had Jack's great muddy boots on, and his disgracefully caved-in hat. In this guise he had to perambulate the village, and now, worst of all, he found himself face to face not only with a whole body of his schoolfellows, but with the doctor and ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
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