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  • Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale.

    Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011

  • Hitchens forgot to close his rambler's door, the one he opened at Muriel's entrance.

    Isn't there a problem, though? Frank Wilson 2008

  • I said, 'Couldn't it have been a rambler's Land-Rover?'

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • I said, 'Couldn't it have been a rambler's Land-Rover?'

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • This rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds, and flowers, is made attractive to young children by the unusual quality of the many illustrations.

    A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

  • They are the thistledown of literature, creatures of a contemplative idleness as pure as childhood's own, the sun's impartial photography on the film of a rambler's eye; yet in these few pages are condensed some thousands, probably, of Hawthorne's days.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

  • Two years later -- that is, in 1901 -- the rambler's good angel again smiled upon him and made possible another tour among the Colorado mountains.

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • They are the thistledown of literature, creatures of a contemplative idleness as pure as childhood's own, the sun's impartial photography on the film of a rambler's eye; yet in these few pages are condensed some thousands, probably, of

    Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

  • You see, I was brought up on the chess reporting of the late and incomparably great Harry Golombek, the rambler par excellence, the rambler's rambler.

    ChessBase News 2009

  • 'But from the rambler's perspective, the overriding issue is that the footpath may be overgrown and lost for good.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

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