What is "rovings"

Usage examples of "rovings".

Quilp accompanied this admission with such an awful wink, indicative of old rovings and backslidings, that Mrs.

Often, as I try to explain what the place I come from is like, and about the war and my monitoring of the weather, or when she describes the myths and rovings and bickerings of her tribe, we meet halfway.

For the past twenty days his rovings had been upon planks, following with the automatic precision of a riding school the oval promenade on the deck of a ship.

His own low moans mingled with the sounds of her passion, and suddenly her nightrail was lifted up and over her head, leaving her completely naked to the rovings of his touch.