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12 total sentences available.
But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare.
Source: tatoeba (6786806)
Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet.
Source: tatoeba (9776680)
Now as I allowed my glance to rove along the dim-lighted hall in the direction of the two bed-chambers, it was at once arrested by some small—and at the distance, indistinguishable—object lying in the centre of the floor a few feet beyond the two doors.
Source: tatoeba (12156532)
Karl Rove says he is a very competitive guy. Admirers and detractors alike say the 55-year-old Texan is a skilled tactician in sizing-up and tearing-down political opponents.
Source: tatoeba (12209691)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Closest matches include ramble, roam, wander, afoot and lighthearted, bat.
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