At the proper season they visit the farms in the evening, and as the houses are far apart, so that only a few can be called at in the hours available after work, it takes them some time to perambulate the parish.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Christmas mummers still perambulate the villages, somewhat uncertainly, as their performance depends on the lads willing to undertake it, and the willingness of some woman to undertake the bedizening of them with strips of ribbon or coloured paper; and, moreover, political allusions are sometimes introduced which spoil the simplicity.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William