771 examples of roving in sentences

A hard-featured, swarthy spinster of forty, with a roving, inquisitive, yet not unkindly eye, she perambulatedor rather percycledthe district, taking stock of every incident.

His family took no notice of this roving up and down; it was a habit, and was tacitly accepted as meaning that he had, for the moment, had enough of the company, and even of his own sallies at its expense.

Mr. Naylor, for his part, stopped roving.

Therefore Beltane sought the deeper shade of the woods and, risking the chance of roving thief or lurking foot-pad, followed a devious course by reason of the underbrush.

Yet first, hear this: thou art perchance some roving knight seeking adventure to the glory and honour of some fair lady.

A plethoric, roving-eyed and kindly man, clutching vainly at the garments of a youth that had long slipped past him.

You saw him, too, in the Pompeian room at the Congress Hotel of a Saturday afternoon when doubtful and roving-eyed matrons in kolinsky capes are wont to congregate to sip pale amber drinks.

They cautioned us that the country further up the river and Rock Creek was frequently raided by roving bands of Snake Indians.

This was done to prevent any roving band of Snakes that might be in the country from discovering our camp and attacking us at disadvantage.

IN THE ALBUM OF ROTHA Q[UILLINAN] A passing glance was all I caught of thee, In my own Enfield haunts at random roving.

It is blowing hard to-day, with broken windy clouds and roving bodies of drift.

And yet the soul of Paris, the big thing in its soul, the spirit which leaps out to the truth and beauty of life, was there even in Olympia, among the women with the roving eyes, and amidst all those fooleries.

But Skinner, standing at the bar and drinking his hot gin and water, with one eye roving over the things at the back of the bar and the other fixed on the Absolute, missed the psychological moment.

Since passion may not fire thee, Shall nature cease to bow? Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving, Come back, and dwell with me.

"I married a man with a roving nature.

The roving eye.

"Thus, on deceitful Aetna's Flow'ry side Unfading verdure glads the roving eye, While secret flames with unextinguish'd rage Insatiate on her wafted entrails prey, And melt her treach'rous beauties into ruin.

We get at last to be like the roving play-actors, who have neither hearth nor home, and thus we pass through the world, playing our bloody tragedies, with the wailings of our subjects for chorus.

" [Illustration: #A WANDERER LOOKS INTO A LANDSCAPE# MORITZ VON SCHWIND] Sternbald, a pupil of Albrecht Dürer, makes a roving journey to the Low Countries, the Rhine, and Italy, in order to deepen his artistic nature.

After a roving existence of years, during which he lived in Vienna, Munich, Prague and London, he made a settled home in Dresden.

His roving eye lighted on the anxious figure, which as fully as the anxious face, of a short, stout, elderly man expressed a sort of distraction, as he stood loaded down with umbrellas, bags, bundles, and wraps, and seemed unable to arrest the movements of a tall young girl, with a travelling-shawl trailing from her arm, who had the effect of escaping from him towards a bench beside the door of the waiting-room.

It was not for want of employment, but from a roving, wild, and boisterous turn of mind.

THE ROVING FRAME X. SPINNING XI. TWISTING AND REELING.

ROVING FRAME 19.

FAIRBAIRN'S ROVING FRAME IN WORK 20.

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