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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wanton .
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Examples
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Strive as I would, ever my fancy eluded my will and wantoned in day-dreaming of the good things I had eaten and of the good things I would eat if ever I were rescued from my lonely situation.
Chapter 19 2010
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Strive as I would, ever my fancy eluded my will and wantoned in day-dreaming of the good things I had eaten and of the good things I would eat if ever I were rescued from my lonely situation.
Chapter 19 2010
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And as the wolf-dogs mourned at her feet and the aurora wantoned overhead, she felt herself drawn against him closely.
CHAPTER 18 2010
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In the evening a walk was proposed; the path they took led to a rustic arbour, enclosed by bold rocky scenery, whose entrance was almost impeded by the profusion of woodbine which carelessly wantoned around it.
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She was like the full moon shining in the nightly shade; her eyes wantoned, her eyebrows were like a bow arched and her lips of coral moulded.
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Yet there was something meritorious in her appearance, as it denoted her an indefatigable minister to the pleasure of mankind, and as it formed an agreeable contrast with the beauty and youth of the fair damsels that wantoned in her train.
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But, whilst they were advancing in solemn procession and with measured steps, the horses, camels, and guards wantoned over their tulips and other flowers, and made a terrible havoc amongst them.
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Their cheeks were rosy red and their necks and shapes gracefully swayed and their eyes wantoned like the gazelle's.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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They bound his hands and he wantoned among them, while they died of laughing at him and the Caliph swooned away for excess of laughter.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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And do I think the less of Goldsmith, because he wantoned with the literalism of the country, and laid on his prismatic colors of romance where only white light lay?
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