perambulating

Unaware of this idiosyncrasy, I used to carry a stick on my way through the streets into the surroundings, but left it at home on learning that I was regarded as a kind of perambulating earthquake.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

a friend to Jingle; a kind of perambulating hydraulic.

Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Next, after this perambulating skeleton, came the weirdest creature I have ever beheld.

CHAPTER V 2010

He was a perambulating skeleton, and could just drag along; but he got there.

That Spot 2010

They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms.

The Mexican 2010

We've been perambulating its creaky wooden aisles since we were in diapers, and walking through its front door feels like coming home for us in the same way as seeing the tall blue Olympics on the horizon or catching the salt breeze off the Sound.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

And, while it is not nice that these men should die, it is ordained that they must die, and we should not quarrel with them if they cumber our highways and kitchen stoops with their perambulating carcasses.

THE TRAMP 2010

We've been perambulating its creaky wooden aisles since we were in diapers, and walking through its front door feels like coming home for us in the same way as seeing the tall blue Olympics on the horizon or catching the salt breeze off the Sound.

We Love You, Elliott Bay 2009

In the far distance were disappearing two huge balls of color, orange and yellow, for all the world like perambulating poppies of cyclopean breed.

The Golden Poppy 2010