Amble

So he and his wife mounted their beasts and Abd al-Kaddus whistled, when, behold, a mighty big elephant trotted up with fore hand and feet on amble from the heart of the desert and he took it and mounted it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In our flight over the de - fert I laboured under one great and pecu - liar difadvantage, I mean my inability to keep the camel to his proper pace; for thofe who are ufed to travel on this ani - mal feldom go at a trot, but almoft always at a kind of amble, which is equally expe - ditious, and much lefs fevere to the rider. ❋ Unknown (1791)

The "amble" to Country Kitchen after Formal was cold, but fun. ❋ Ana-ng (2009)

Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz, and, scanning his kingdom — that is to say, a few couples who had started dancing — he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculiar, easy amble which is confined to directors of balls. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He had only just left the Countess Banin, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz, and scanning his kingdom—that is to say, a few couples who had started dancing—he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculiar, easy amble which is confined to directors of balls. ❋ Unknown (1917)

In the hands, moreover, of the poets of this particular time, whether they were printed at length or cut up into eights and sixes, they had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble which is inexpressibly monotonous. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

But this quiet pace did not last, for, the road becoming level, the pony took to a kind of amble which seemed its natural pace, and was soon urged from that into a gallop by its driver. ❋ Amy Walton (1873)

Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz, and, scanning his kingdom -- that is to say, a few couples who had started dancing -- he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculiar, easy amble which is confined to directors of balls. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

Their pace is a kind of amble, and they are able to sustain a journey of about twenty leagues a day. ❋ George Vasey (1857)

"They have to wait for me to kind of amble over there." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Deer standing about in the bracken; deer asleep in thick fern under great oaks; deer feeding slowly up wind on a distant slope of green; deer leaping shadows of tree-stems one after another as if the shadows were water, which is one of the deer's prettiest games in the sun: deer trotting off as you try to come nearer to them, with that curious quivering, shaking amble which is born of lissom daintiness and muscles like steel; deer with hot sunlight on their coats -- it is the ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

There is something about cricket that lends itself to long, in-depth coversations that can amble around a subject while also dissecting it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I was drawn to William Fiennes's The Music Room Picador, as I often amble round the vast grounds of its setting, Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For me, the "carrier battle group" is the military equivalent of asking someone to stand still while you amble across the room to hit them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tawny and immense, he ignored the truck completely, rising to amble down the road that led back to our camp as we followed, breathless, a dozen yards behind. ❋ Sara Clemence (2011)

Lyndhurst, making his face almost as long as his legs, seems merely to amble through the lines and across the stage, but he makes the clown scenes look part of the play's shape-shiftings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I would just amble up there and pretend I was taking a long walk around the valley. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

As a few visitors amble in the side galleries, workers repaint the museum's white walls, which are conspicuously bare. ❋ Kimberly Chou (2011)

To give today's poky pedestrians enough time to amble diagonally across an intersection, he would have to keep cars idling at least three seconds longer at red lights. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2011)