78 examples of maundering in sentences

The revolt against the ancien régime in letters made possible the Ode that is the high-tide mark of modern English inspiration, but it was parodied in page on page of maundering rusticity.

"If he weren't an A No. 1 dreamer, he'd be too serious to live, but be goes dreaming and maundering alongdreaming that things are about as he would like to have them.

[Fr.], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize^. Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent^, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome^, long-winded, longspun^, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious^, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

As a heron when she fishes, still prying on all sides; or as a cat doth a mouse, his eye is never off hers; he gloats on him, on her, accurately observing on whom she looks, who looks at her, what she saith, doth, at dinner, at supper, sitting, walking, at home, abroad, he is the same, still inquiring, maundering, gazing, listening, affrighted with every small object; why did she smile, why did she pity him, commend him?

In spite of all his faults and there are few poetic faults in which he does not indulge, to their very highest powerin spite of his "interfluous" and "innumerous," and the rest of his bad Englishin spite of bombast, horrors, maundering, sheer stuff and nonsense of all kinds, there is a plaintive natural melody about this man, such as no other English poet has ever uttered, except Shakespeare in some few immortal songs.

" "Oh, go to bed, Sylvia; don't sit there maundering over the concert," said her mother, with a good-natured asperity.

So maundering, I fell forward upon my face, and for twenty-three hours, the living undistinguished from the dead, I slept there.

Meanwhile, he had gone maundering on, in a halting sort of way, and presently let slip a sentence that struck me like a blow between the eyes.

We'll have no saints, I say; far better for you, And no doubt pleasanterYou know your place At least you know your place,to take to cloisters, And there sit carding wool, and mumbling Latin, With sour old maids, and maundering Magdalens, Proud of your frost-kibed feet, and dirty serge.

MAUNDER, SAMUEL; Grammar prefixed to Dict.; 12mo, pp. 20: 1st Ed., London, 1830.

The foregoing opinion from Crombie, is quoted and seconded by Maunder, who adds the following examples: "Thus, Dr. Watts: 'May there not be Sir Isaac Newtons in every science?''You must not suppose that the world is made up of Lady Aurora Granvilles.

'"Maunder's Gram., p. 2

" Maunder, "A nail with a sharp head driven into the horses' shoes in frosty weather."

Maunder's rule is, "Transitive verbs and participles govern either the objective case or the infinitive mode.

"Maunder's Gram., p. 11.

"Maunder's Gram., p. 12.

"Maunder's Gram., p. 5.

Say if you like that women have no sense, No self-control, no power of concentration; Say that hysterics is our one defence Our virtue but an absence of temptation; These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles To hear you maundering on about our ankles.

So he sat for a while, maundering dismally, then stood up and made for the door.

Yet, wreck as he is, when he gets up at the Petty Sessions to defend some labourer, the bench of magistrates listen to his maundering argument as deferentially as if he were a Q.C.

He fully understood the philosophy of the matter, as the following shows (412): "Notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary by false friends and weak maundering philanthropists, the California Indians are a grossly licentious race.

He went sometimes to read the papers to old Tim Poole, who was bed-ridden, and did not pish or pshaw once at his maundering about secession or the misery in his back.

I feel that if I go maundering on much longer about my children, some one will exclaim with a witty and delightful author when he saw "Peter Pan" for the seventh time: "Oh, for an hour of Herod!"

By the time I had got through Sharpin's maundering report of his own folly, I saw my way clear enough to the end of the Rutherford-Street case, just as you thought I should.

He sat continuously looking down with a green shade over his eyes even though it was twilight; and his mode of speech and delivery suggested to me the epithet "maundering," though I was ashamed of myself for the thought with reference to such a man.

78 examples of  maundering  in sentences