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"Maunder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get your letter of July 24th. Now that I can do nothing, I maunder over old subjects, and your approbation of my climbing paper gives me VERY great satisfaction. I made my observations when I could do nothing else and much enjoyed it, but always doubted whether they were worth publishing. I demur to its not being necessary to explain in detail about ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... himself in sorry plight when he came to take up his patrimony and enter upon his inheritance. Those were not the days when the weak man and the beaten man excited much pity in England. No! they were not, whatever sentimental people may say who maunder about the ages of faith and refresh themselves with other such lackadaisical phrases. So, poor Richard being down in his luck, John Bonington, acting for Henry, Earl of Lancaster, [Footnote: His son and heir, Henry, Earl of Derby, was created Duke ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp |
Words linked to "Maunder" : mussitate, speak, tattle, cast, mouth, blab, prate, mumble, range, tramp, clack, blither, vagabond, babble, roam, ramble, swan, verbalize, blether, palaver, smatter, piffle, prattle, verbalise, utter, drift, rove, blabber, mutter, twaddle, gabble, roll, gibber, talk, stray, chatter, tittle-tattle |
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