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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 206 It were to large a roming place, to runne ouer the port that the churchmen haue kept.

1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Gen. iv. 15) 8/1 I..will not suffer thy solitary, and roming life, to give any one occasion to hurt thee.

1757 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. (ed. 6) 197 Partition off their [sc. ducks'] Nests,..and always feed them there; it will make them love Home, being of a roaming Nature.

1861 W. White Month in Yorks. (ed. 4) 272 Any one who could be content with homely head-quarters at Muker or Thwaite might enjoy a roaming holiday for a week or two.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 48/2 The south or steppe portion of Mesopotamia was from early times the roaming-ground of Arabic tribes.

1905 Nonconformist Musical Jrnl. Sept. 132 I am taking a roaming tour in the Highlands of Scotland.

1939 S. L. Cross (title of song) My roaming days are over.

1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 20 June The ‘roaming’ agreement is believed to be the first of its kind in the cellular industry to be entered into by a wireline and non-wireline company.

1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. iv. 2 a/1 Subscribers can now use their cellular phones outside of a typical coverage area, thanks to ‘roaming agreements’ in which competing cellular carriers have agreed to accept and broadcast calls made from subscribers who don't belong to their networks.

1995 What Mobile & Cellphone Mag. Feb. 4/2 This rate includes..roaming charges, which can cost around $3 a day in many parts of the US.

2008 Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Features section) 27 Most pheasants tend to have a roaming existence.