"Perambulating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has not reached the Islands, while the flag has, it may in time reach them. Meantime no mocking of that perambulating and capricious instrument! It contains the power to acquire islands, or the whole of China, by conquest or treaty; and the power to govern them as we choose, limited only by our ideas of Justice. It would not do to let them have popular sovereignty, any more than ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters
... enough to raise the dead," exclaimed a solitary traveler, a stranger in town, perambulating ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... others, strange, weird faces and forms and twisted monstrosities that shouldered me on every side, inconceivable types of sodden ugliness, the wrecks of society, the perambulating carcasses, the living deaths—women, blasted by disease and drink till their shame brought not tuppence in the open mart; and men, in fantastic rags, wrenched by hardship and exposure out of all semblance of men, their faces in a perpetual writhe of pain, grinning idiotically, ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London |
