Recall involves perambulating, mentally, through the familiar 'places' to discover the individual images deposited in them that, by their striking quality, remind of what is to be said.
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Those are the bookmakers who, when you come to look for them, have perambulated with such success that you cannot find them.
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There could be a significant saving on bureaucracy when one considers the army of external assessors who willperambulatearound the country second-guessing every decision.
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A good number of these vans, which appear to have only one casual occupant,perambulateabout.
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I may be allowed to protest against this system of perambulating pro-consuls.
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These perambulating chairmen are absolutely useless in the business of settling policy.
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That expresses perfectly the pious resignation of a perambulating mendicant.
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I am doubtful, certainly in peace-time, about having this system of perambulating proconsuls because you never quite know what the functions of such people are.
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If one can license a tramcar for this purpose, surely one can license one of these perambulating vans.
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I am sure that he willperambulatemerrily from place to place, although he has attacked all that we have done.
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It is true to say that the desire to walk is not universal among the majority of our citizenry—indeed, if theyperambulateat all.
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It is said that it may be a perambulating machine, a machine taken from one small course to another.
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I was hoping the same process could be used to make perambulating on the ground safe as well.
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He described how one could follow a boundary, along streams and by orchards, and how it was always possible to find the line merely by perambulating round the countryside.
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Is it not inflationary toperambulatefrom bookshop to bookshop signing copies of one's memoirs in the hope that when they are remaindered this will keep the price up?
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