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    1. ‘Maybe we could go for a ramble sometime once you’ve moved in


    2. Alfred wished Alan would just let her ramble about that


    3. continued to ramble in that thick-tongued French accent


    4. "So how did humans get here?" she asked him, hoping he was in the mood to ramble


    5. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the stool; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries


    6. That was just one ramble she went on while telling him about castle life while the streetcar rumbled back up the Southeast Khume


    7. Are you both going to ramble on about your inappropriate and inconsiderate greeting or are we going to introduce ourselves as it should be done and have a little chat


    8. As soon as the bombardment finished the whistles went and we set off on our country ramble with our rifles and bayonets held at high port


    9. He had been prepared for a bit of a ramble about old times with Mother Imelda and then a casual question about the improbable possibility of his parents


    10. After listening to me ramble on for ages about the baby and Dena and Egan, Patty finally had the chance to tell me her news

    11. Paul realized he had allowed himself to ramble


    12. I mean sometimes I’ll call it break dancing out of habit but that is really a term the media came up with for B-boying or breakin’ but it doesn’t really matter to me as long as someone can rock the floor,” I said as I started to ramble out of nerves


    13. He began to ramble, his head throbbing


    14. "In that case, I'll ramble on a little more, Monica


    15. I couldn't hear her ramble on again with her usual sex talk


    16. All I remember her saying as she continued to ramble on is that Avery recognized me


    17. She starts to ramble, “Watson worked here for a while as mistress


    18. I let him ramble till he'd run out of worries, nodded seriously, told him I was keener than him to maintain a low profile, was grateful for his honesty, and considered his suggestions very wise


    19. Eventually, Drew started to ramble on about anything just to break the embarrassing silence


    20. He was waiting and she had spent an hour listening to him ramble about how she should have been there when he had something to tell her

    21. I didn’t want to interrupt Luke’s chattering about the football game last night, that would be rude and ‘unladylike’ as my gramma Stokes used to say, so I let him ramble and within about a half a minute, the thing was gone


    22. Unsure of the exact nature of the comment and the edge in her tone, Wickland remained silent in anticipation of further details that were apparently forthcoming as the widow’s mind continued to wander and ramble aimlessly


    23. " It's good to know that there is a bloody good reason to plough through all this otherwise this would be the longest self-indulgent ramble on record


    24. What else should I ramble on about? There is so much going on in this story that even I am still at a lost to fully understand the ramifications and where this can go


    25. about whatever it is that you ramble on about when I’m not listening


    26. could ramble on and on about how stupid that they were, about how they


    27. ” She began to ramble, making apologises to the absent Flower and Candy, questioning again why it had happened


    28. The actress’s ramble was becoming hysterical, the conflicting emotions in her head and the confusion of the unanswered why


    29. guy would ramble off some cave gibberish but since he stood out he


    30. I sometimes ramble on and on about everything biology-related, so just stop me if I get boring

    31. “Yeah,” I said, recalling those times when he was so willing to listen to me ramble on and on for hours and hours about everything under the sun


    32. ” I was prepared to ramble, but he stopped me


    33. He can only make out bits and pieces of the sobbing ramble against his chest


    34. Forever about these, to others, he’d ramble


    35. Then he started to ramble on hysterically again


    36. AND I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE COS IT'S A BIT OF A RAMBLE


    37. She heard the Captain murmur something else and the Ensign ramble into a long spiel that Fern could make no sense of, no matter how acutely she tried to attune her ears


    38. Denver sat across from him watching the face before him contort and ramble


    39. fill his evening with this senseless ramble about what


    40. Our minds ramble from the past, to the present, to the future

    41. My feet were very used to this trail; I could easily ramble in any part of the school without taking the trouble of focusing on the way


    42. To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,


    43. The governor, the majordomo, and the carver went aside with him, and, unheard by his sister, asked him how he came to be in that dress, and he with no less shame and embarrassment told exactly the same story as his sister, to the great delight of the enamoured carver; the governor, however, said to them, "In truth, young lady and gentleman, this has been a very childish affair, and to explain your folly and rashness there was no necessity for all this delay and all these tears and sighs; for if you had said we are so-and-so, and we escaped from our father's house in this way in order to ramble about, out of mere curiosity and with no other object, there would have been an end of the matter, and none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest of it


    44. "In our walk along the moor: you told me to ramble where I pleased, while you sauntered on with Mr


    45. The moors, where you ramble with him, are much nicer; and Thrushcross Park is the finest place in the world


    46. This 20th of March was a beautiful spring day, and when her father had retired, my young lady came down dressed for going out, and said she asked to have a ramble on the edge of the moor with me: Mr


    47. On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November---a fresh watery afternoon, when the turf and paths were rustling with moist, withered leaves, and the cold, blue sky was half hidden by clouds---dark grey streamers, rapidly mounting from the west, and boding abundant rain---I requested my young lady to forego her ramble, because I was certain of showers


    48. "There you are beginning again to ramble, to talk again and again of the past! But what is


    49. Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl; as if the child, in her lonely ramble through the forest, had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together, and was now vainly seeking to return to it


    50. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries
















    1. “You’re a little late, aren’t you? Isn’t this supposed to be delivered first thing in the morning? While it is morning, it most certainly is not first thing,” Ackers rambled, trying to get some sort of information out of the paper boy while confusing him at the same time


    2. “We thought of Tdeshi as her mother,” Jorma rambled, “we were going to investigate her together


    3. “I used to see him around when I went up top,” Kemberra rambled


    4. wandered as she rambled


    5. He’d rambled on about his dead wife Daphne, claiming how no man ever loved a


    6. She opened her mouth and rambled on about a corpse she had found


    7. rambled on as he got more frustrated and built up the adrenaline


    8. I rambled on, asking one rhetorical question after the other


    9. “Figure drawing is extremely challenging,” I rambled on


    10. He rambled on about the travels of Hudson, Frobisher, Franklin, and Rae, and he mixed it with the great debate over the first to reach the North Pole

    11. ” she rambled on before I interrupted her


    12. My thoughts rambled while I rode the underground


    13. The man rambled in the background moving dirt to and fro with a broom as sparse of


    14. -There is a very important matter that I want to discuss with you! A matter so crucial that it will change the destiny of this family - on having said this, rose and rambled up to the window which was opposite to her, provoking a hollow sound whenever the cane was hitting the creaking wooden floor


    15. Over the next few hours we were completely under the influence of the weed and rambled incoherently


    16. I rambled further away from the noise, away from the devastation, and slumped against a tree


    17. Beth was behind the wheel when the Customs guy rambled through


    18. yes, he has hurt you very badly, and for that you have no idea how sorry I am, truly sorry,” she rambled


    19. Joey stopped his rambled thinking and got to work


    20. Meanwhile, multiple thoughts and scenarios rambled within

    21. Pam rambled on as she abruptly got up, tossed the coffee in


    22. As he rambled on, her frustration blocked him out


    23. or a painting,” he rambled, “and you’re more beautiful than any


    24. So as we continued walking we rambled about James’ love for the Father and our love for James; and of course the Father also


    25. Shoop’s patience was running out, but stil the man rambled on


    26. specs as McCoy rambled about the machine


    27. mind that, how long are you here, do have time to visit, where are you headed?” Arlene rambled in a breathless fashion


    28. Emma tried to ignore the cat as he rambled on but he just kept on talking right over Lucy


    29. that rambled on as he waited for the turbo lift


    30. us Ben… He rambled on and on about a customer who came into the shop asking for a book he had

    31. Guaranteed she would have rambled just like the specialist


    32. As we traveled to Fredericksburg, Marcus rambled on and on about his rules and regulations


    33. Nurse rambled on


    34. She rambled richly


    35. that's not what I meant,” I rambled and Salem gripped my hand underneath the table


    36. They rambled on in Polish laughing intermittently


    37. "Ooook," he says, trying not to get his hopes up because it's entirely possible that he hadn't heard her right and she just rambled something about Maximus instead of what he thinks she said, but what he thinks she said suddenly makes him feel lighter, fresher, buoyant


    38. For twenty more minutes, the four rambled on


    39. The old master rambled on excitedly for the rest of the day and most of the evening


    40. drudgery of sainthood?” Euther rambled on in this fashion for some

    41. “He rambled about the


    42. And you have us so if there's anyone there that doesn't like you- not that anyone wouldn't like you! I mean your great!" he rambled on like that while Sammi stared at him blankly


    43. was revealing a bit of the game plan it would seem and bitterly I listened on as he rambled, “…… But once we have a base, well then, anything’s possible


    44. I rambled on about cotton and blow dryers to distract myself from his state of clothing, and he laughed as I proceeded to furiously rub the water out of his hair with the Mickey Mouse tee I had picked up


    45. I carefully kept my face flat and nodded some more as Kestrel rambled on


    46. cell as he rambled about bunnies, he'd gone insane


    47. And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him reenter directly!


    48. Petrified shrubs rambled here and there in sprawling zigzags


    49. He was very old and seemed in poor health and rambled on for forty-five minutes


    50. While her tongue rambled on Gabriel tried to banish from his mind all memory of the unpleasant incident with Miss Ivors

















    1. Stephen rambles on mentioning lots of other people and telling me a little about them until we arrive at the venue by which time I have forgotten most of what he has said


    2. Joris grins at me as the incomprehensible conversation between the man and Berndt rambles on


    3. My mind was off on unguarded scary rambles and I had to reel it in before the boulders started glowing or whispering to each other - or to me


    4. He rambles on about his day while I eat my curry, telling me about his piano pupils and how they vary from the keen and able to the keen and totally useless


    5. I hoped during our rambles together in the following


    6. that rambles and confuses because it’s really


    7. "He's a kid, he rambles


    8. will …’ A mind in turmoil, negotiating with God, rambles from one thought


    9. "Tiring! But Kristen has gotten really good and-" Massie listened to Alicia's rambles but her mind was somewhere else


    10. “One more thing Doctor, was she supervised during her nocturnal rambles?”

    11. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles


    12. In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles


    13. Grief, and that together, transformed him into a complete hermit: he threw up his office of magistrate, ceased even to attend church, avoided the village on all occasions, and spent a life of entire seclusion within the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early morning before other wanderers were abroad


    14. And you will have such nice rambles on the moors


    15. "No---I have to scold them every evening for their late rambles: but they don't care for me


    16. We had been out for one of our evening rambles, Holmes and I, and had returned about six o'clock on a cold, frosty winter's evening


    17. rambles took him downtown—and that he realized the two New Yorks had flipped


    18. ‘No—I have to scold them every evening for their late rambles: but they don’t


    19. " And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass


    20. It was after my return from one of these rambles that my father, calling me aside, thus addressed me,

    21. He and Anne had delightful rambles to wood and field and shore


    22. Yet, whenever these rambles led me near peasants engaged at their work, all my ignoring of the existence of the “common people” did not prevent me from experiencing an involuntary, overpowering sensation of awkwardness; so that I always tried to avoid their seeing me


    23. In many happy morning walks and peaceful twilight rambles, I had made the acquaintance of every winding lane, every shaded avenue, every bosky dell and sunny glade for miles around


    1. Before she could open her mouth with a good excuse, the old man began rambling again


    2. The building was a rambling old hangleaf with a good second floor


    3. When I was rambling on about Emma as a child … Molly commented on how lucky I was to have a grandson


    4. On a clear and otherwise still night, Menachem held his hand up during one of my long and rambling recollections about home


    5. The object of her unsubtle surveillance is unshaven and rambling, singing to himself


    6. He is rambling and we both know it


    7. The only thing she was hearing right then was Jim; rambling on about finding the Will and how it would solve their problems


    8. From a distance the grown structure rambling across the mountaintop can’t be distinguished from the forest


    9. Knume goes out for a hunt once or twice a year, after nyobba or lenta, not theirops,” was what Desa answered but Alan kept rambling over it


    10. Alec was flailing about, rambling while the little red imp hovered over him, an inquisitive look on its face

    11. Wouldn’t you agree that the time has come to stop this nonsense of ‘more of the same’ that has taken you nowhere but in endless circles and dead ends on your journey? Haven’t you tired of being the rambling vagabond who always arrives, but never really gets there?”


    12. ’ Parmayan turned to look at her, perhaps she was rambling


    13. So we knelt beside the stretcher too take our leave of our friend Eli but by this time he was rambling and incoherent and could not recognise us so we left him and went back to the dugout


    14. I could hear him rambling on but it seemed to come from miles off as he said


    15. “Yes an evil war so evil and all my lodgers have gone yes gone now why have they gone?” She was rambling a bit by now and I wondered if seeing me had some how set her back


    16. We got into my room and I sat down on the bed and began a rambling apology but before I could say much Helen had taken my boots off and before long she was stripping me of the rest of my uniform


    17. Mother was rambling from the start of the obtuse conversation


    18. ” To me it sounded like I was rambling


    19. He went on rambling about why he had sold his car rather than drive it to Durban


    20. It is only an eight hour trip so I could not quite understand his reasoning and I did not want to really find out either so I let him carry on with his next bout of rambling, this time about the transfer he had taken to the office in Durban

    21. My story is rambling enough after all these years


    22. He suggested this not unkindly; and I could hear them rambling on as they moved away


    23. Another source of information was Tommy’s sister; Dorothy had been an actual classmate of Martha’s during her schooldays so they often had rambling telephone conversations about old teachers, boyfriends and the like


    24. Now Zoran found himself rambling on about the danger posed by not knowing the traditionally allowed behaviors of their hosts


    25. What was the use of all the thoughts if no one knew that I’d had them? But oral witnessing had never been a strength of mine, and how would anyone else be able to make the kind of sense out of such a rambling train of thoughts, that seemed so delightful to me, as they came, seemingly unbidden so many times, and in so many ways? But any attempt at purposeful recitation on my part never seemed as good or complete, or organized


    26. He was peering down at her with great excitement, rambling on about something


    27. Monica, rambling on about the flood whenever you have problems of your own


    28. casually at the new stocks of perfumes and cameras, but there was more direction to his rambling than mere window shopping


    29. “Pardon me for rambling on, but all that gives us a strategy for our great changes; the creation of universal happiness and the elimination of evil


    30. "These dungeons are about the most rambling spread-out maze of underground caves I've ever known!

    31. There came a confused silence after my convoluted rambling, but I kept up a confident


    32. lawnmower, and then stare blankly and just nod when she went off on an incoherent rambling,


    33. As expected, Sirhan’s rambling confessions and withdrawals only serve to confuse everyone, including the prosecution


    34. Demuesy and family in a large, rambling ranch house


    35. The priest was still hovering about the small hovel; he was still rambling, but now no words


    36. The Rambling Speech of an Old Man


    37. The result was a rambling, hard to follow mish-mash (as I can see from hindsight)


    38. Donald, in a rambling polemic, accused her of incompetence, bullying methods, having no control over her underlings and trying to ruin the local economy


    39. Lunch was a sandwich and after, long, rambling walks in the woods where she dug for ginseng, morels, fiddle heads and other herbs


    40. rambling pulp and logging operations, and the islands in the Strait were numerous but signs of habitation were rare

    41. white rambling old home, the kind that held centuries of secrets


    42. The building was a rambling two story, with huge playing fields


    43. His nervous rambling is interrupted when she puts her


    44. probably rambling on in that little head of yours, no that’s not it, after I nock your weak ass out


    45. This has nothing to do with you, and I have no time for rambling


    46. There were not many who paid attention to his apocalyptic talk, for the town was convinced that the priest was rambling be-cause of his age


    47. I just heard words and rambling


    48. “Of course,” Lady Jane said politely though the tone indicated her displeasure with her husband’s rambling


    49. Frustrated by this and by Cyril’s snide comments that they should have allowed him to do it his way, Feltus and Lowell both mentally determined that this would be the last assault necessary to secure passage into the suite, so that they could silence Cyril’s rambling and not delay the inevitable any longer


    50. rambling on and on about how hot it was and how your intentions












































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    Synonyms for "ramble"

    meander ramble cast drift range roam roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander jog ramble on chatter diverge maunder amble stroll saunter

    "ramble" definitions

    an aimless amble on a winding course


    continue talking or writing in a desultory manner


    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment