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Definition of Peripatetically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripatetically
Literary usage of Peripatetically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... looks peripatetically on this scene from under his umbrella, not without interest.
All which persons and things, hurled together as we see ; Pallas ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... the grievances, and the vanities of the provincial town of Florence—there is
no resource but that of treating the question peripatetically—that is, ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"The tall Marquis, emitted some ; ago from limbo, looks peripatetically on this
scene from er his umbrella, not without interest. All which persons things, ..."
4. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1918)
"... lies in the coincidence that the first was a gift from the man who taught the
writer German orally and peripatetically years before Cornell University ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"... peripatetically, expound his theories of life to the innocent assembly on the
ale-benches. " I'm not much of a man to look at," he would say in his ..."
6. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"The tall Marquis, emitted some days ago from limbo, looks peripatetically on this
scene, from under his umbrella, not without interest. ..."
7. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"Totting, bone-picking, cither peripatetically or at the dust-heaps. " TOT" is a
bone, but chiffoniers and cinder-hunters generally are called TOT-PICKERS ..."
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