Lexicographical Neighbors of Dandering
Literary usage of Dandering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous: With General Glossary by Walter Scott (1879)
"Danders, cinders; refuse of a smith's fire. dandering, sauntering; roaming idly
from place to place, Dang, dung, struck; subdued; knocked over. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"An old man getting into his dotage is sometimes said to be a dandering old fellow.
DANDY, s. a bantam. The sexes are specified as dandy-cock and dandy-ben. ..."
3. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"For the rest: London is quiet enough for the most retired taste at present, and
I like it best so ; there are always some ' dandering individuals ' dropping ..."
4. Methodist Magazine (1900)
"... the bellman, lived, following " their favourite dissipation, all dressed in
rusty blacks, dandering about among the grave-stones. ..."
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