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You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.
Source: wiktionary
1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417982810&id=xgoCsmI375EC&pg=PA765&lpg=PA765&dq=peregrinate&sig=pi0MJ50aG19SYuBfTLHF6TSE4nI He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.
Source: wiktionary
2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0618057005&id=uEdgwQQscQ4C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=peregrinated&sig=sIIHoIBH24WcEvOT2azATLbmoAE As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.
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1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417920904&id=LCyGcTb-Af8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=peregrinates&sig=JqFzQzvC5TOwqRCgiL9-NKEoQxI History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.
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