We toyed with the idea of walking on: not yet, though – botanising at ground level, propped on one elbow, seemed a more rewarding way to while away a sultry afternoon. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They were sitting by the roadside botanising flowers. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
He flings out his lean botanising hands in an impotent gesture. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
In the afternoon Dr. Wetmore and I rode to the beautiful Puna woods on a botanising excursion. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Excellent fishing, botanising, and geologising in this neighbourhood. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
Rich botanising is to be had on the swampy ground at the mouth of the right ravine. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Arthur, taking Eiulo with him, proceeded upon a botanising tour about the neighbourhood, in the hope of making some discovery that might prove useful to us. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)
I shall therefore return towards Deeling, and devote a few days to botanising on Thuma-thaya. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
He himself was going to take charge of a botanising party on the Hersch-felsen, and a junior master was to superintend those who wished to fish in the lake; but ❋ Various (N/A)
The attendant who was responsible was one of the hands employed on ditching and fencing, and possibly was not much experienced at river fording, and he said the Doctor delayed so long botanising that darkness was upon them by the time they reached the fording place. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)
The following morning Anna Sergyevna went off botanising with Bazarov directly after lunch, and returned just before dinner; Arkady did not go off anywhere, and spent about an hour with Katya. ❋ Unknown (1917)
She had gone botanising where some bushes displayed great bunches of the crimson arita berries as if to show to the sun what Earth could do in the way of manufacturing poison. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Here I used to loaf in a state between botanising and reverie -- always very anxious to know what was up above in the sunlight -- and here it was I murdered a man. ❋ Unknown (1906)
He used to overwork himself periodically -- use up the grey matter at the base of his brain, as he described it; but he had a hundred things that he wanted to do besides writing -- fishing, entomologising, botanising. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
I usually occupied my class with botanising; and also as geographical master, I turned these occasions to profit by leading on my boys to think for themselves and to apprehend the relations of various parts of the earth's surface: on these and other perceptions gained in this way I based my instruction in physiography, making them my point of departure. ❋ Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 (1889)
After spending two or three hours botanising in the _cañada_, I returned to the house. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Yet I remembered that he had undoubtedly been botanising before he knew of my approach, and such a form of pastime seemed to prove him sincere. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Boulogne by eight o'clock, Jean Jacques set to work botanising. ❋ John Morley (1880)
He is allowed to attend meetings, but no dinners, and all botanising with girls is strictly forbidden. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)
