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Wandering Ahasuerus German name for the Wandering Jew. [Ger. Lit.: Benét, 1071] Coleridge’s wandering sailor. [Br. Lit.: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” in Norton, 597–610] spaceship condemned to perpetual earth orbit. [Swed. Opera: Blomdahl, Aniara, Westerman, 562] sailed with Jason in search of Golden Fleece. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 36] a nomadic desert Arab. [Br. Folklore: Espy, 98] Jewish advertising salesman whose wanderings around Dublin are ironic parallels of Ulysses’ voyages. [Irish Lit.: James Joyce Ulysses] punished by God to life of vagrancy. [O.T.: Genesis 4:12] a wanderer in search of best of all possible worlds. [Fr. Lit.: Candide] Hadean river where unburied were doomed to roam for 100 years. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 210] roams Low Countries as soldier and deliverer. [Ger. Folklore: Benét, 325–326] spectral ship doomed to eternal wandering. [Marine Folklore: Benét, 355] accompanies Eulenspiegel on his circumambulations. [Ger. Folklore: Benét, 325–326] wandering scholar-poets of 12th-century Europe. [Medieval Hist.: NCE, 1105] visits fabulous lands. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver’s Travels] Norwegian farmer drifts around without purpose. [Nor. Lit.: Peer Gynt, Magill I, 722–724] member of nomadic people who usually travel in small caravans. [Eur. Hist.: NCE, 1168] seeking an end to disappointment in love, he wanders about Europe. [Br. Poetry: Byron Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in Magill IV, 127]
condemned to wander the world for centuries for her part in the execution of John the Baptist. [Fr. Lit.: Eugene Sue The Wandering Jew] “the wanderer” aboard Ahab’s ship. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] Shaolin priest wanders throughout America. [TV: “Kung Fu” in Terrace I, 449] itinerant holy beggar. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 64] condemned to vagabondage, Cain settles here. [O.T.: Genesis 4:16] dreamer with a lifelong fondness for wandering into romantic adventures. [Fr. Lit.: The Wanderer in Magill I, 1081] to win souls, he is cursed to roam earth after death. [Br. Lit.: Melmoth the Wanderer] led his people through the wilderness for forty years. [O.T.: Pentateuch] shrewd old woman who makes her living by following the armies of the Thirty Years’ War selling her wares to the soldiers. [Ger. Drama: Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children in Benét, 690] transferred from ship to ship; never lands. [Am. Lit.: “The Man Without a Country” in Benét, 632] (Ulysses) hero of the Trojan War wanders for seven years before returning home. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] Polynesian word for an island rover. [Am. Lit.: Omoo] a legendary, wandering Irish bard. [Irish Lit.: Harvey, 603] adventure series of two young men wandering along highway Route 66. [TV: Terrace, II, 259] wanders on horseback for fifty years, trying to find his way home. [Am. Lit.: Austin “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” in Hart, 48] character who wanders in search of “inner truth.” [Ger. Lit.: Hesse, Siddhartha] accompanied by his poodle, Steinbeck drives 10,000 miles through 40 states to discover America. [Am. Lit.: Steinbeck Travels with Charley in Benét, 961] R. L. Stevenson’s wanderings through the mountains of southern France, accompanied by a donkey. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 1014]
condemned to eternal wandering for mocking Christ. [Christian Legend: NCE, 2926; Fr. Lit.: Wandering Jew] in a leisurely trip through 18th-century France, he meets a variety of people and enjoys the company of the fair sex. [Br. Lit.: Sterne A Sentimental Journey in Benét, 914] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? To prevent my wandering away I don't know where--for I begin to be sensible that I have just come back, and that I shall lose myself again--do so, dear boy It seemed as if hardly any of the preceding stories had thrown such an interest around Grandfather's chair as did the fact that the poor, persecuted, wandering Quaker woman had rested in it for a moment. |
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