Maunders

But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the center of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We may all disagree, the tone troll maunders, but surely we can all agree to be polite and show each other respect. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

But it hapned once that the good man, went to the Market, and having bought a delicate Capon, meets with a friend, whom he invited to be his guest; and going home with it, his wife powts, maunders and mutters and looks so sowr that the guest saw well enough how welcome he should be. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)

WEBB maunders on all the same, and Vote postponed. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then he maunders off into the scenery, trusting to high heaven that he is going to blunder against Brownie as ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Then he maunders off into the scenery, trusting to high heaven that he is going to blunder against Brownie as a prominent feature of the landscape. ❋ Unknown (1904)

But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the centre of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality. ❋ Jack London (1896)

Rambler_; still maunders vaguely of the "strange old book, with the queer name, poor Captain Brown was killed for reading-that book by Mr. Boz, you know -- _Old Poz_; when I was a girl -- but that's a long time ago -- I acted Lucy in _Old Poz_." ❋ Austin Dobson (1880)

So the mawkish creature maunders on until one's gorge rises; but the stolid carters, the idle labourers, the shoemaker from the shop round the corner, admire his eloquence, and enjoy the luxury of pitying a parson and an aristocrat. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

A never finds out that it is rubbish, but maunders on to the end, trying to believe he's enjoying himself. ❋ Lewis Carroll (1865)

So much lower than the company he keeps, for his maudlin assumption of being higher, this pitiless rascal blights the summer roads as he maunders on between the luxuriant hedges: where (to my thinking) even the wild convolvulus and rose and sweetbrier are the worse for his going by, and need time to recover from the taint of him in the air. ❋ Unknown (1861)

The _alms-basket_ was also called a _maund_, and those who partook of its contents _maunders_. ❋ Various (1852)

So much lower than the company he keeps, for his maudlin assumption of being higher, this pitiless rascal blights the summer road as he maunders on between the luxuriant hedges; where (to my thinking) even the wild convolvulus and rose and sweet-briar, are the worse for his going by, and need time to recover from the taint of him in the air. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Nature maunders on about the fundamental science being agreed among all parties. ❋ Christopher Monckton (2010)

"My load's greater than the masses can carry," he silently maunders, knowing it would be fatal if heard outside the hard castle of EIB: ❋ Unknown (2009)