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Saunter

verb

(past & past part. sauntered; pres. part. sauntering)

Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim. Synonym: stroll.

noun

A careless leisurely gait.

A leisurely walk (usually in some public place). Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, stroll.

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"Saunter" Quotes from Famous Books

... was doing right to let Larry saunter forth. Even after he had handed the Marlin over, he shook ...

— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne

... him hear when he is found, and of most time for him to find the key when he hears. But time is not money to the merchant just now, and he watches the western sky patiently, and is made sleepy by the breeze. When at last they saunter under the shadow of the gray church tower, his eye is caught by the mass of color, out of which springs a high cross of white marble, whose top is just flushed by the setting sun. It is of fine design and ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... of a happier fate than that which befell him. For on his first ride out his horse came to grief, as we have said, over a hedge, and left the gallant major somewhat knocked about himself, with nothing to do for half a day but to saunter disconsolately up and down the country lanes and pay afternoon calls on some of ...

— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... from their perpetual chatter to gaze at the heavens in what you imagine to be the approved style, to the accompaniment of correct gasps, after which, finding you have left your cigarettes behind, you look at your wrist watch and wait another five minutes, until you can with decency saunter back to your camel-driver with the feeling of something quite well done, and the unuttered hope in your mind that everyone would not have gone ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... was leaving the hospital, when I saw the large gate open, and in walked Rab, with that great and easy saunter of his. He looked as if taking general possession of the place; like the Duke of Wellington entering a subdued city, satiated with victory and peace. After him came Jess, now white from age, with her cart; and in ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

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