Literary notes about Itinerant (AI summary)
The word "itinerant" in literature vividly captures the essence of mobility and transience. It is frequently used to describe characters and professions on the move—be it musicians and singers who wander from town to town, such as the traveling violinists or the wandering fiddler ([1], [2]), or tradesmen and vendors who ply their crafts in different locales ([3], [4], [5]). The term also extends to professionals like preachers, justices, and even educators who perform their duties while traveling, thereby emphasizing a life outside the confines of a fixed locale ([6], [7], [8]). In this way, "itinerant" conveys a dynamic quality that is integral to the portrayal of various transient figures across literary works ([9], [10]).
- A small band of violinists attend, and accompany the singing: they reminded me of our itinerant musicians, that serenade us of an evening in London.
— from A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, During the years 1820 to 1825 Containing Remarks on the Country and Inhabitants; and a Visit to Colonia Del Sacramento by George Thomas Love - He was born about 1725 or 1726, at Clewer, near Windsor, and was the son of an itinerant fiddler.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs - The itinerant mender of slippers was hard at work with three young lads, and I never saw any one of the party idle.
— from Morocco by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan - The itinerant coffee-vendor is a characteristic feature of the Musulman quarters of Bombay.
— from By-Ways of Bombay by S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - The thorough-*fares are crowded by itinerant peddlers of all sorts of merchandise.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou - An itinerant musician, going in the same direction, agreed to act as guide.
— from Mungo Park and the Niger by Joseph Thomson - In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, [79] who had made himself remarkable there as an itinerant preacher.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin - The circuits of the Justices Itinerant were restored, and appeals to the king in Council were established.
— from The Influence and Development of English GildsAs Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert - Than this obscure Itinerant (an obscure, But a high-souled and tender-hearted Man) Had skill to draw from many a ramble, far 1814.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth - Ansel Bourne was an itinerant preacher living at Greene, Rhode Island.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
