This was a
wandering individual named Edward Rose, whom he had picked up somewhere on the Missouri - one of those anomalous beings found on the frontier, who seem to have neither kin nor country.
So when Zarathustra thus ascended the mountain, he thought on the way of his many solitary
wanderings from youth onwards, and how many mountains and ridges and summits he had already climbed.
She would regularly change the ice, or the cooling spirit, on his head, and would keep her ear at the pillow betweenwhiles, listening for any faint words that fell from him in his
wanderings. It was amazing through how many hours at a time she would remain beside him, in a crouching attitude, attentive to his slightest moan.
In all her
wanderings through the long corridors and the empty rooms, she had seen nothing alive; but in this room she saw something.
At any rate, it would not do for so small a number of men, with so numerous a cavalcade, to venture within sight of any wandering tribe.
This last mentioned place was first discovered by Colter, a hunter belonging to Lewis and Clarke's exploring party, who came upon it in the course of his lonely wanderings, and gave such an account of its gloomy terrors, its hidden fires, smoking pits, noxious streams, and the all-pervading "smell of brimstone," that it received, and has ever since retained among trappers, the name of "Colter's Hell!"
We shall hear further of Wyeth, and his wild voyage, in the course of our wanderings about the Far West.
And once the soul is set free, there is no need for painful aimless
wanderings, no need for Mahomet to go to the Mountain, for resting in the centre of all things the universe will be our home and our share in the secrets of the World-Builder will be made known.
All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide.
The old tourist is far away on his wanderings, now.
Long she looked and listened in vain; when one day, as she was wandering through a lonely dell, she heard a faint, low sound of music, and soon a distant voice mournfully singing,--
He came one day, while wandering through the garden, to the little rose he had once harmed so sadly.
At length, as he lay sleeping in a flower-bell, a little bee came wandering by, and knew him for the wicked Thistle; so he called his friends, and, as they flew murmuring around him, he awoke.
But he looked in vain; till, wandering through the forest where the Brownies took him captive, he stopped beside the quiet lake.
What will be the end, the end of her objectless
wandering, apart from all love, caring for human beings only through her pride, clinging to life only as the hunted wounded brute clings to it?
