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Meanings of rove about in English

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Usage of rove about in English
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In Westphalia the Hessians and Swedes rove about, rendering the roads unsafe.
The Youth of the Great Elector
2
Briskow allowed his eyes to rove about the spacious Governor's suite.
Flowing Gold
3
Pure and spotless they live and rove about (in great happiness).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
4
He has plenty of room to rove about in.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
5
You know, so many freebooters rove about everywhere, and Westphalia especially is swarming with Swedes and Hessians.
The Youth of the Great Elector
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He let his eye rove about the place as one who regards, big-eyed, hogs in the potato patch.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
7
No lady would rove about the heath at all hours of the day and night as she does.
The Return of the Native
8
They rove about, mental and moral Ishmaelites, pitching their tents amid the fixed and ornamented homes of men.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
9
He can rove about with Duhan among the gorse and heath, and their wild summer tenantry winged and wingless.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04
10
I have chosen only half a dozen species to tell you of, from the half-hundred that rove about the United States.
Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
11
As she grew older she would rove about with the larger hens, but was very tame, and always liked the house.
Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories
12
Jane advised Agnes not to argue with Hugh, and then perhaps his wish to rove about the world might go off.
The Crofton Boys
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She appeared to me to rove about from one bramble to the next, utilizing galleries which she has not dug herself.
Bramble-Bees and Others
14
Though the Golden-crowned Kinglets rove about in flocks a great part of the year, they are extremely private in the nesting season.
Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
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Then the little manikins would dive down into the sea, and rove about in the coral groves, making love to the mermaids.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
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Terrence O'Connor continued to rove about the world in the capacity of a ship's cook till near the end of his days.
The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double R...
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