What is "maundering"

Usage examples of "maundering".

While thus she was maundering and afflicting her self, Lampis the Herdsman coming upon her with a band of rusticks, ravisht her away, presuming Daphnis had cast off all thoughts of Chloe, and Dryas too to gape on Daphnis.

Such vaporish maunderings were dangerous to bring to a working circle.

Not because of what the Blackshirts had done to him, but because of those sinister black birds maundering around the castle grounds.

She sat down on the bed and began to talk of Daniel Dabbs, as she had often done already, in a maundering way.

We will try to regard the Indian's pernicious maunderings merely as evidence that during his lifetime the Adversary arranged many sorts of temptations and trials for him, God permitting it for the stoutening of the Aztec's soul.

He repeated names which I recognized from bygone browsings in forbidden volumes, and at times made me shudder with a certain thread of mythological consistency - or convincing coherence - which ran through his maundering.

To be harried and bullied and exposed to awful danger--and then just cut adrift with hardly a thank-you-damn-your-eyes from a man who, but for me, would have been feeding the fishes--God, I found myself hating that shilly-shally Carl Gustaf, and that sour-faced old turd Sapten-- aye, and that mealy Grundvig, with his pious maundering.

And when a man like him starts in writing to me of wondrous miracles, old prophecies, and fanciful maunderings, I begin to really worry.

If my maunderings are as all-fired important to you as you claim, then you'll show up and listen.

You still have to show up and listen to my maunderings until I'm so rejuvenated that I'm cured of such childish behavior and you still have to go on with that research.

If my maunderings are as all-fired important to you as you claim, then you’ll show up and listen.

You still have to show up and listen to my maunderings until I’m so rejuvenated that I’m cured of such childish behavior— and you still have to go on with that research.

Here let me remark that there is nothing ambiguous or vague about Cabell's style -- there is nothing of the rambling, incoherent maunderings of most of the modern school of writers, who seek to conceal their own ignorance by making the reader feel confused and bewildered.

When, however, we come to the groveling Middle Ages with their superstitions and ecstasies and monasticisms and maunderings over saints and their relics, we find the cool and impersonal loveliness of the felidae in very low esteem.

Instead he said, “I hope I did not annoy the royse with my maunderings, my lady.