"Ramble" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will. We shall deserve a rest, and we will retire into obscurity for a season and recuperate. Another ramble in the Ardennes ...
— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill
... remarkable degree the lovely feminine gift of home-making. She was a true decorative artist. Her room when she was boarding, and her home after it was completed, were bowers of beauty. Every walk over hill and dale, every ramble by brookside or through wildwood, gave to her some fresh home-adornment. Some shy wildflower or fern, or brilliant-tinted leaf, a bit of moss, a curious lichen, a deserted bird's-nest, a strange fragment ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... been for a long ramble by a mighty river, and the sun had sunk to the westward on its journey; but she turned not to the place she called her home. Tired and worn out with her play, she lay on a rock ...
— The Strange Little Girl - A Story for Children • V. M.
... together, there to lounge away the time as they could with sofas, and chit-chat, and Quarterly Reviews, till the return of the others, and the arrival of dinner. It was late before the Miss Bertrams and the two gentlemen came in, and their ramble did not appear to have been more than partially agreeable, or at all productive of anything useful with regard to the object of the day. By their own accounts they had been all walking after each other, and the junction which had taken place at ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... "Robbers" is said to have propagated the breed of highwaymen in Germany. To ramble through the country, stop travellers on the highway, make huts in the forest, sing Bedlamite songs, and rail at priests and kings, was the fashion in Germany during the reign of that popular play. It was said, a banditti of students from one of the colleges ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
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