"Rambling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which was very long, very rambling and absurd from beginning to end, was in the same strain. It was not the first time that I had written to Edmee, though I lived under the same roof, and never left her except during the hours of rest. My passion possessed me to such a degree that ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... doing no good,' whispered the schoolmaster, 'she is rambling, she may go to sleep when you ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... the hills of northern New Jersey stood the old DeBost mansion, a rambling frame structure of many wings and gables that was well-nigh hidden from the road by the half-mile or more of second-growth timber which intervened. High on the hill it stood, and it was only by virtue of its altitude that an occasional ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... a good-sized, rambling house, with verandas for dining, and bedrooms for sleep. We found him on his largest table, lying flat on his back, and contemplating, in the eternal and perplexing way of the Polynesians. The Daibutsu, the great Buddha of Kamakura, had no more ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... perused some of these rambling papers has long since seen (if to see has been worth his trouble) that the writer belongs to the old-fashioned classes of this world, loves to remember very much more than to prophesy, and though he can't help being carried onward, and downward, perhaps, on the hill of life, the swift milestones ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
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