How To Use Maunder In A Sentence
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innumerous," and the rest of his bad English -- in spite of bombast, horrors, maundering, sheer stuff and nonsense of all kinds, there is
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
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The four who lived there -- "Bat and Zilpic, Maunder and Insie, of the Gill" -- had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor.
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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Staggering and maundering to himself, with bloodshot eyes, and a raw and bleeding slash down one side of his bewhiskered face, he was altogether the most nauseating specimen of degradation and filth I had ever encountered.
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A good editor would have ensured that these characters did not have as much time to maunder on endlessly and indulge in the most banal conversation.
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You lot thought I was maundering in Philadelphia, didn't you?
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And if I've devoted too much time to maundering about this, it's from a sort of frustration.
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He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it.
CHAPTER 2
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The drunk sat there maundering about his troubles.
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An example is the so-called Maunder Minimum in the 1600s and 1700s when the Thames River routinely froze, something that never happens today.
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Get on board or maunder out to the retirement home, Fred!
25 Random Tips for the Busy Facebook User - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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I don't recall ever coming across the word "maundering".
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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And old men, on cool and balmy lanais, toothlessly maundered to her about
THE KANAKA SURF
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This real England, your unreal home, turns us all into maundering John of Gaunts, sighing over sceptred isles, demi-paradises, other Edens.
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I've maundered and pondered and arm-waved about something like this for ages.
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Whether [the current downturn] is an omen of long-term sunspot decline, analogous to the Maunder Minimum, remains to be seen," Livingston and Penn caution in a recent issue of EOS.
GREENIE WATCH
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To be fair, NPR dutifully followed up with a climate change weekend segment a few days later that maundered semi-articulately around the connection of climate change to extreme weather.
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Hilarity, a Hurricane, a Pipeline and a Time to Lead
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And thanks to the rest of you, too, both those who pitched in to help make it a real book, and those who have listened to me maunder about it since early 2003.
Fans jumped up and the Finn jumped too
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'maunder' on with objections long since disposed of.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
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They were overnumerous as I maundered up from where at last the road leaves the valley and makes over a little pass for a place called Schangnau.
The Path to Rome
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He looked at them like a drunken man and maundered in strange, sleepy speech.
The Hunger Cry
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In a bleary voice he seems to be maundering about Christ, Armageddon, calendars, and China.
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Why would someone use the word maundering when they meant meandering?
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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They both maunder on for what feels like several hours about this wonderful patriarchal peasant society where the men spend all their time talking about food, and the women spend all their time preparing it.
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If Peggy had used "maundering", I would have assumed that "meandering" had gotten mistyped.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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I don't recall ever seeing the word "maundering" before, and I consider myself to be pretty well read.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you.
Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
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More to the point, for all his maundering about the estate tax, it hasn't done anything to break up the great fortunes of our era.
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Nam-Bok was ever clumsy at the paddle," she maundered reminiscently, shading the sun from her eyes and staring across the silver-spilled water.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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He was instead maundering about his room, thinking about silly things and wishing he knew what was going on.
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Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins.
Chapter 15
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I looked up "maunder" and I think it would make an excellent stage name: -) 9: 28 PM skookumchick said ...
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All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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Every issue has a cluster of stories that vary wildly in style and tone, from maundering musings to cold silence, from freehand swirls to suffocating realism.
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
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He had seen convicts, after the guards had manhandled them, crippled in body for life, or left to maunder in mind to the end of their days.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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We must give the old maunderer _bos in linguam_ -- something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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His columns frequently wander and maunder, heading this way and that, but never actually arriving anywhere.
The Panda's Thumb: Jeffrey Shallit Archives
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Now again an angel might interpose, between Abraham and his maundering delusion that he must slaughter his second son, Isaac.
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Maunder explained that flea eggs, the worm-like larvae, are born in autumn and survive in nests around the household over winter.
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I will try if by judicious treatment the 'maundering' may not be made into something worth the hearing.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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They don't say, like that poor old maunderer I read this morning, that there's no use preparing -- that a million phagocytes will spring to arms overnight if their country's invaded.
The Wrong Twin
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Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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But what good is bawdy when its purveyors, from low to high, seem unfailingly recruited for their unsightliness, and act like overwrought underachievers or maundering bystanders?
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And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
CHAPTER VIII
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We'd love to comment, but I'm afraid to say that none of us here at the Sacred Order of Libertines had the stamina to read all the way through his maundering moralism.
Outer Alliance Pride Day
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He maunders alone on the rocky beach.
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Mungo’s irreverence in chuckling over his own wit, and only farther alluded to it by saying — “We must give the old maunderer bos in linguam — something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba. —
The Fortunes of Nigel
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently.
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But if the Woman marks that this helps not, and that all things remain in the old posture, then she begins to mump and maunder at her husband; vaunting much of her own fitness, and not a little suspecting her husbands; oftentimes calling him a Fumbler, a dry-boots, and a good man Do-little, &c.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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Here's the American Heritage Dictionary on "maundering": 1. To talk incoherently or aimlessly.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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At any rate, I found it resonated a lot for me, especially regarding the struggles for balance that I go through with my writing life and how it fits into the rest of my life (something I maunder about here on occasion), and what writing and publishing (not the same thing) does or serves for me, and as ever with Matt it's well written and thus worth a look.
Breakfast in Bed
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Chiang Stumps Even Her Teacher, the reporter for The Christian Science Monitor listed indehiscence (a botanical term for the state of being closed at maturity), maunder (to move slowly and uncertainly), and cenote (a sinkhole) among a list of eight difficult words she had used, saying that even Wellesley professors had to consult their dictionaries.
The Last Empress
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Maunder and Insie, of the Gill” — had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor.
Mary Anerley
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Maunder, 'here John assumed his full historical key,' him wi 'the pot to his vittle-place; and Sir Richard Blewitt shaking over the zaddle, and
Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor