wayfaring mann.

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 138 Sum wegfarende man ferde wið þone feld.

OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxvii. 25 Hi gesawon twegen Ismahelitisce wegfarende men [L. viatores] cuman of Galaad, & læddon wyrtgemang on heora olfendon.., on Egypta land.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 259 Heo [sc. pilegrimes] ifindeð iwis seint Iulienes in. þet weifarinde men ȝeorne bisecheð.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 449 For refresshynge and socour of way farynge[c1400 Tiber. weyvaryng] men.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 3631 We ere..wayfarand men [a1450 Lamb. wey-farende men] þat wald haf grith.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 37 The waye beyng sumwhat trodden afore, by waye fayrynge men.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxviii. 241 The necessities of trauailers waifaring men and such like.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxxv. 8 The wayfaringmen, though fooles, shall not erre therein. View more context for this quotation

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 155 When the Shepherds perceived that they were way-fairing men, they also put questions to them,..as, Whence came you? View more context for this quotation

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. l. 86 As some way-faring Man, who wanders o'er In Thought, a Length of Lands he trod before.

1789 J. Wesley Let. 2 June (1931) VIII. 142 A poor wayfaring man, I lodge awhile in tents below, Or gladly wander to and fro, Till I my Canaan gain.

1820 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Nov. (1977) VII. 223 My friend Hobhouse—when we were wayfaring men used to complain grievously of hard beds and sharp insects.

1888 Sunday School Jrnl. May 173/1 Who stands bewildered in the street, homeless as the night comes on?.. It is the..wayfaring Man of grief.

1917 T. Veblen Inq. Nature of Peace ii. 70 The common man..has no dealings with aliens in foreign parts, as capitalist, trader, missionary or wayfaring man.

1985 Daily Tel. 12 June 6/5 Two gallons of beer and two loaves are left at the hospital gate to be distributed among genuine tramps and wayfaring men.

2004 E. S. Bakalian Aspects Love John Gower's ‘Confessio Amantis’ iii. 118 Ariadne gives up everything she has..for a wayfaring man she barely knows.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. cxv. 1305 The Wayfaring mans tree groweth vp to the height of an hedge tree, of a meane bignesse.

1900 A. E. P. R. Dowling Flora of Sacred Nativity 203 We have no right to include the Wayfaring Man's Tree (Viburnum lantana), another charming English designation, that seems to come to the mind as suitable in this place.

1940 V. Quinn Shrubs in Garden x. 252 A far happier explanation is that the sheer beauty of this shrub of the highway hedges—white with flower-clusters in spring, distinctive in its gray garb among summer's greenery, richly colorful with crimson leaves and purple-black fruit in fall—cheers the weary wayfarer. Nor is this so far-fetched, for its sixteenth-century name was ‘wayfaring man's tree’.