"Perambulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Egyptians; and well does she merit it, for she is in fact the patroness of the place. The same scrupulous cleanliness, however, which pervades everything else, is manifested in the treatment of this venerated animal. She is not permitted to perambulate the place, but in winter, when she forsakes the rich pasture, a well-built house is provided for her, well painted, and maintained in the most perfect order. Her stall is of ample dimensions; the ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... 'tis even so: We'll shake hands over that at any rate, Let me refer to our friend Rochefoucauld, He knows a lot concerning Love and Hate. But still we wont these paths perambulate, What others say I merely here repeat So as my story I can illustrate, And hand you my authority complete; To give my own ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott
... whites of thine eyes that were yellow, By the folds of thy duplicate chin, By thy voice that was husky but mellow With gin, with the richness of gin, By thy scorn of the boy that was Bragian, By thy wealth of perambulate swoons, O matchless and mystical Magian, ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)
... parish priest is still to be seen in almost primitive quaintness. The people of each parish—nobles, citizens, and plebeians alike—formerly elected their own priest, and, till the year 1576, they used to perambulate the city to the sound of drums, with banners flying, after an election, and proclaim the name of their favorite. On the day of the parroco's induction his portrait was placed over the church door and after the celebration of the morning mass, a breakfast was given, which ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... nominated as has already been explained. To invest him at the huarachico the Inca ordered a new way of giving the order of chivalry. For this he built round the city four other houses for prayer to the Sun, with much apparatus of gold idols, huacas and service, for his son to perambulate these stations after he had been armed as ...
— History of the Incas • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa |
