"Travel" Quotes from Famous Books
... spirit by his own, and it would be rushing into the lion's den to proclaim himself here. I should recommend, if I might venture to do so, that his Majesty should assume a false name, and that we should travel in small parties so as to attract no attention, each making his way to Saxony ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty
... Khan, with a shoulder shrug of protest. The fellow had recovered his equanimity, and, knowing him as I did from our few days of travel in company, I reflected that in mortal combat he would be likely to give good account of himself. But there was no time to indulge in surmises. Mirza Shah still claimed ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Tales of Destiny • Edmund Mitchell
... a sick man, and the journey to the East proved to be a severe strain upon him. Cleary saw that it would be unwise to let him travel alone with his wife, and accordingly he accompanied him to Slowburgh, which was on the way to Homeville. They arrived in the afternoon, and Sam could hardly walk to the carriage which awaited him. He was put to bed as soon as he reached his uncle's house, and on the advice of his uncle's doctor they ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... books as you find them, and treat travel as travel. For you, when you go to a foreign country, see nothing but what you expect to see. But I am astonished at a thousand accidents, and always find things twenty-fold as great as I supposed they would be, and far ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... If a woman at my age has not learned to travel without an escort, it is time she did. I suppose that's what you're driving at. Well, what do you say? Go, or remain at home as you like. Only I shall regard it as a choice ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant
... that the soldiers at Alaminos were about to desert on November 30th, 1898; [308] that it was deemed necessary to restrict travel between Tarlac, Pampanga, Bataan and Zambales in order to prevent robberies; [309] and that on January 9, 1899, the governor of the province found it impossible to continue the inspection of a number of towns, as many of their officials had fled to escape the abuses of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... He eventually became an authority on the Southwest with many regional volumes to his credit: For God and Texas, America's Heartland, The Southwest, and San Antonio, City of the Sun. But he never lost his interest in space travel, assisting Hubertus Strughold on the writing of The Green and Red Planet, a scientific appraisal of the possibilities of life on the planet Mars published in 1953. He also served for a time as London ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Coming of the Ice • G. Peyton Wertenbaker
... was named the Clermont and was launched in 1807. She had paddle wheels and steamed against the wind and tide of the Hudson River. At first some people thought that she was bewitched. But when it was found that she ran safely and regularly, people began to travel on her. Before a great while steamboats appeared in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Short History of the United States • Edward Channing
... many learned theologians had proved by rigid logic that unbaptized babies are damned forever. He spent days of horror at the frightful possibility, and nights of infernal travel across gridirons where babies flung their blistered hands in vain appeal to far-off mothers. He could not get it from his mind until, one evening, his pipe persuaded him to erect a font in the temple of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... at sea great ships of voyagers Glide o'er the waves to billows white with spray, And to another world the hardy travellers convey; Just as bold savants travel through the sky To illustrate the world which they espy, Men without ceasing cry, 'How great is man!' But no! Great God! How infinitely little he! Has he a genius? 'Tis nothing without goodness! Without some grace, no grandeur do we rate. It is the tender-hearted who show charity in kindness. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... though with a first-rate reputation in his calling and supposed to be rich, the openings were numerous to a familiar intercourse with those middle-aged nameless gentlemen of easy circumstances who haunt clubs, and dine a great deal at each others' houses and chambers; men who travel regularly a little, and gossip regularly a great deal; who lead a sort of facile, slipshod existence, doing nothing, yet mightily interested in what others do; great critics of little things; profuse in minor luxuries and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... in a skillful physician, who, upon being told what their plans were, immediately and emphatically vetoed further travel for the present. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Virgie's Inheritance • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... I who rose cheerful in the morning and piloted a gloomy companion to breakfast and a barber, and so across Boston to the dingy station where dingy, dirty cars of ancient vintage awaited, and in one of which we rode, with innumerable stops, to a spot off the beaten tracks of travel, but which bore a name that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton
... people who would laugh at the idea of an active lad being lost in the mountains. To them it seems, as they travel comfortably along by rail or coach, impossible that any one could go perilously astray ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn
... is the path along which we can travel. It is the only road that corresponds to all our ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... not wait for the Doctor to finish, but cried in violent protest: "No, no, no—Doctor—no, I must not do that. I tell you, man, I must travel light and alone. I must go into life as naked as St. Francis. The world is stirring as with a great spirit of change. The last night I was at home, up stepped a little Belgian glassblower to me. I'd ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... beside it curiously. What did a Francophile-Arab read? Novels, probably, that would harmonise with the atmosphere that she dimly sensed in her surroundings. But it was not novels that filled the bookcase. They were books of sport and travel with several volumes on veterinary surgery. They were all in French, and had all been frequently handled, many of them had pencilled notes in the margins written in Arabic. One shelf was filled entirely with the works of one man, a certain Vicomte Raoul de Saint Hubert. With the exception of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... mission, and ought to make us understand more surely than ever how infinitely pitying and forbearing is the All-Loving One, that He should, as it were, with such extreme affection show us a way by which to travel through darkness unto light. To those who cannot see this perfection of goodness depicted in Christ's own words, I would say in the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli
... talk about others fibbing. From the evidence just put in, it's evident that you're the only one of the three who fibbed any. Won't you please walk on the ether side of the road? I never did like to travel with liars." ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... sharp watch on the brook, for the enemy would probably travel on it, as the snow ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ben Comee - A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 • M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
... kind of your Majesty to telephone me from Felgarde," the Chancellor exclaimed, as if on a sudden thought, while they shook hands, "merely to say whether you remain there; or whether you go further; or whether you return at once. I am too fatigued to travel back immediately to Schloss Breitstein, and shall rest for some hours at least, in my house at Kronburg, so a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson
... of them stared at her unreservedly. Such a sight of exquisite feminine beauty had not come to their eyes in many a long day. Even in the dim light of the smoky lanterns, and with the dust and weariness of travel upon her, Margaret Earle was a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... idle all heroic act By the least suffering of love! I could not read; so took my pen, And thus commenced, in form of notes, A Lecture for the Salisbury men, With due regard to Tory votes: 'A road's a road, though worn to ruts; They speed who travel straight therein; But he who tacks and tries short cuts Gets fools' praise and a broken shin—' And here I stopp'd in sheer despair; But, what to-day was thus begun, I vow'd, up starting from my chair, To-morrow should indeed be done; So loosed my chafing ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Angel in the House • Coventry Patmore
... wouldn't that drive anyone to drink! You'll know all about Miss Weir-Huntley, then. She's had me doing amateur detective work for nearly a week, running down a glorious hero by the name of Neil. I didn't know you had to travel incog. Come along here; you may be a questionable character, for all I know, but she thinks you're Neptune's own son. There she is, under the lamps, the goddess in pale green. Isn't she a stunner? Don't you wish you had let the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith
... and saved trouble; but mainly because India's women have no ostensible political power, and there is politics enough without bringing new millions more potential agitators into light. So word of her life among the women did not travel swiftly to official ears, as that of a male intriguer would certainly have done. Utirupa was busy all day long with polo, and the Powers that Be were sure of it, and pleased. What Gungadhura knew, or guessed, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... eased the tension by saying comfortably: "It's a great experience to travel alone. Your senses seem to be more ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... waved in the light wind. Harry and Dalton, as the youngest, took their modest places in the rear of the group of staff officers, just behind Lee, and looked expectantly over the plain. They saw at the far edge a long line of horsemen, so long, in fact, that the eye did not travel its full distance. Nearer by, all the guns of "Stuart's Horse Artillery" were posted upon ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Buckskin Mountain was an obstacle almost insurmountable. The journey was undertaken and found even more trying than had been expected. Buffalo after buffalo died on the way. Then Frank, Jones's right-hand man, put into execution a plan he had been thinking of—namely, to travel by night. It succeeded. The buffalo rested in the day and traveled by easy stages by night, with the result that the big herd was transported to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... those records say, travel in Space beyond the speed of light had not been accomplished; they believed such a feat an impossibility imposed by a condescending Nature that could be challenged too far. And they therefore knew no way of reaching beyond the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Women-Stealers of Thrayx • Fox B. Holden
... replied "I am still fatigued with the day's travel, and had rather not see company ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Hand But Not the Heart - or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring • T. S. Arthur
... no! he will not be a burden to anyone. Thanks to Jean's liberality, this child's mother will have left him enough to live comfortably, and, later, when he has become a man, he will travel, no doubt. He will do as I have done; as nine-tenths of the human ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant
... Jonathan says he exercises to keep his feet light. Wetzel would just as soon run as walk. Think of the magnificent condition of these men. When a dash of speed is called for, when to be fleet of foot is to elude vengeance-seeking Indians, they must travel as swiftly as the deer. The Zanes were all sprinters. I could do something of the kind; Betty was fast on her feet, as that old fort will testify until the logs rot; Isaac was fleet, too, and Jonathan can get over the ground like a scared buck. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... tramping about the country," he wrote me, "living most of the time in the parks. This life, where you 'travel by hand,' crowds out consecutive meditation, but I like it because I can go away at the first shadow of uneasiness betrayed on either side. My existence now is so responsive and irresponsible that it comes very close to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood
... white, still night, where the dead tree bends Over the track, like a waiting ghost, Travel the winding road that wends Down to the shore on an Eastern coast. Follow it down where the wake of the moon Kisses the ripples of silver sand; Follow it on where the night seas croon A traveller's tale ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Glugs of Gosh • C. J. Dennis
... their feet and ran outside the house, headed by Juanna. There, borne on the shoulders of six travel-worn men, and followed by a crowd of natives, they saw a litter, upon which lay the figure of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... first I saw the banished man, With Sita, in his hermit coat, At this sad heart compassion smote. My breast with tender pity swelled: I saw thee from thy home expelled, Reft of all princely state, forlorn, A hapless wanderer travel-worn, Firm in thy purpose to fulfil Thy duty and thy father's will. But boundless is my rapture now: Triumphant, girt with friends, art thou. Where'er thy wandering steps have been, Thy joy and woe mine eyes have seen. Thy glorious deeds to me art known, The Brahmans saved, the foes o'erthrown. Such ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... falshood; Remove me nearer to Eugenia's Body; My Spirits faint apace, and I must follow: One word, and then farewell; I have no time for to Reward thy care: Here, take this Ring, and give it to my Brother, He left it with me when he went to Travel; Tell him I still preserv'd it for his sake, A faithful pledge of our United Friendship. Bid him, that by this Token he believes Three words I left within my Cabinet Concerning thee this Evening: He will do it, And use thee as a Friend, as I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Fatal Jealousie (1673) • Henry Nevil Payne
... as the surface of a country, with its various roads connecting the different centers. The stations would then represent the experiences, and the roads the association tracks between them. If one should travel at random over these roads, he would in time pass through all kinds of towns and cities, but if he started in quest of a certain type, say mountain villages, he would arrive at his goal much more quickly than he would otherwise. The Freudians themselves acknowledge ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... them many. Too many for the safety of its owner, while he is in their revengeful hands. My son is not a woman, and he looks on the path he is about to travel with a steady eye. Has he nothing to whisper in the ears of his people, before he starts? These legs are old, but they may yet carry me to the forks of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... are my studies. I need no observatory high in air to aid my perceptions or enlarge my prospect. I do not want a costly apparatus to give pomp to my pursuit or to disguise its inutility. I do not desire to travel and see foreign lands and learn all knowledge and speak with all tongues, before I am prepared for my employment. I have merely to go out of my door; nay, I may stay at home at my chambers, and I shall have enough to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... coral insects, l. 90. The coral habitation of the Madrepora of Linneus consists of one or more star-like cells; a congeries of which form rocks beneath the sea; the animal which constructs it is termed Medusa; and as it adheres to its calcareous cavity, and thence cannot travel to its neighbours, is probably without sex. I observed great masses of the limestone in Shropshire, which is brought to Newport, to consist of the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin
... these cases is not empirical, but goes into every conceivable scientific aspect of the situation which may throw any light on the underground conditions—the source of the ores, the nature and source of the solutions which deposited them, their paths of travel, the structural and metamorphic conditions, the mineralogical and chemical character of the ores and rocks, and even broader questions of geologic age. The many volumes of testimony which have accumulated during famous apex trials cover almost every ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... enough," he said, "but for the sake of safety I had better tell you that these submarines nearly always travel in pairs. We are apt to meet ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... order a case of goods from Hong Kong on Monday, and be told that they are ready for shipping on Thursday. You can go to San Francisco in almost the same time that it took, only fifty years ago, to reach Washington from New York. When General Jackson went to the capital to be President, he could travel no faster than did the Jews, after the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle
... twice after that," he stated, hesitatingly, "but I didn't have much surplus cash for travel in those days, or—or clothes, either. I'm afraid I wasn't too prepossessing an object, on any of those visits, after I had tramped in overland. The house was closed both times I came. And then I did write once—that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans
... which is held to blame for the wrecking of our nervous systems, it was not unknown to an earlier generation. Madame Le Brun assures us that, in her youth, pleasure-loving people would leave Brussels early in the morning, travel all day to Paris, to hear the opera, and travel all night home. "That," she observes,—as well she may,—"was considered being fond of the opera." A paragraph in one of Horace Walpole's letters gives us ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier
... emperor, had learned from his spies that the earls purposed to start at daybreak on their road to Paris. Lucius prepared ten thousand riders on horses. He bade them travel the whole night through, outstripping the Britons, and devise such ambush as would rescue their comrades from these barons. He committed this company to Sertorius, lord of Libya, and Evander, the King of Syria. With these princes were Caritius and Catellus Vulteius, patricians of Rome. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut • Wace
... entertainment, a conversation, or visit, does not each desire to act his part decently, and agreeably to himself and others? If life is but a passage, let us strive to make it easy; which we cannot effect, if we fail in regard for those who travel with us. Religion, occupied with its gloomy reveries, considers man merely as a pilgrim upon earth; and therefore supposes that, in order to travel the more securely, he must forsake company, and deprive himself of pleasure and amusements, which might console him ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Good Sense - 1772 • Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach
... at this, and one of the young men said, "Antinous, you did ill in striking that poor wretch of a tramp: it will be worse for you if he should turn out to be some god—and we know the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Odyssey • Homer
... of the document was in the Appendix to the second volume of Mr. Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (New York, 1843). It included the original Maya text, with a not very accurate translation into English of Pio Perez's rendering of the Maya. From Mr. Stephen's volume, the document has been copied into various publications ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... whispered to the youth who sat nearest him, holding his hand to the side of his mouth so that the sound would not travel. Catching sight of Yates, he winked at him in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... of the clerks in the booking-office came forward at once with news. Mr. Bassett Oliver, whom he knew well enough, having seen him on and off the stage regularly for the past five years, had come there the previous morning, and had taken a first-class single ticket for Scarhaven. He would travel to Scarhaven by the 11.35 train, which arrived at Scarhaven at 12.10. Where was Scarhaven? On the coast, twenty miles off, on the way to Norcaster; you changed for it at Tilmouth Junction. Was there a train leaving soon for Scarhaven? ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... this I do not mean that a woman should be taught cooking, and not political economy; that she should be instructed in dressmaking and nursery-work, but not in chemistry and logic. I mean that the very fullest education that schools, colleges, universities, and foreign travel can give, should be given to the woman who is fortunate enough to have them at command, and that every woman, according to the degree of her possibilities of education and opportunity, should have the best. But always this education should be thought ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
... THE RADIO GIRLS ON STATION ISLAND or The Wireless from the Steam Yacht In this volume the girls travel to the seashore and put in a vacation on an island where is located a big radio sending station. The big brother of one of the girls owns a steam yacht and while out with a pleasure party those on the island receive word by radio that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... sobriety has to run the gauntlet of half-a-dozen spirit-shops in the space of a bow-shot. These are near at hand—open by day, and blazing by night, both on Sabbath and Saturday. Drunkenness finds immediate gratification; while economy has to travel a mile, it may be, for her savings bank; and that opens its door to thrift but once or ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Thrift • Samuel Smiles
... and distribution. For the giving and receiving of gold and silver we have substituted neither more nor less than faith in the honesty and industry and capacity of our fellow-men. There is hardly one of us who does not literally live by faith. We lay up fortunes, marry, eat, drink, travel, and bequeath, almost without ever handling a cent; and the best reason which ninety-nine out of every hundred of us can give for feeling secure against want, or having the means of enjoyment or of charity, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin
... of the palaces of Versailles and Marly, Louis XIV. continued to make an annual "voyage de Fontainebleau." He compelled his whole court to follow him; if any of his family were ill, and unable to travel by road, he made them come by water; for himself, he slept on the way, either at the house of the Duc d'Antin (son of Mme. de Montespan) or ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various
... We now travel parallel to the Gold Coast which looks hot and uninviting, for there are but few patches of green or trees until Cape Coast Castle is reached. Here is a fort which must have impressed natives and slave dealers greatly in the past, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman
... whence Mr. Forbes could travel to the city, but soon discovered that the daily train journey was not good for his health. After that, she insisted on adopting the self-denying ordinance of leaving Evelyn with her father in the town house from the middle of May till the end of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... and Jolly. All the knots and crankiness, which had gathered in his heart during that long and tragic business of June, Soames, Irene his wife, and poor young Bosinney, had been smoothed out. Even June had thrown off her melancholy at last—witness this travel in Spain she was taking now with her father and her stepmother. Curiously perfect peace was left by their departure; blissful, yet blank, because his son was not there. Jo was never anything but a comfort and a pleasure to him nowadays—an amiable chap; but women, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... undergrowth, jungle, ooze, where men could not see each other twenty yards off, and assaults had to be made by the compass. The fights there were not even as easy as night attacks in open country, for at night you can travel by the stars. Death came unseen; regiments stumbled on each other, and sent swift destruction into each other's ranks, guided by the crackling of the bushes. It was not war—military manoeuvring: science had ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke
... never been out of this country. I travel with a gazetteer and some guide-books. It is the cheapest way, and you can get the facts much better from them than by trusting your own observation. I have made the tour of Europe by the help of them and the newspapers. But of late I have taken to interviewing. I find that a very pleasant ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... came to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel. But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, 'Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.' So he sat down, and the fox began to run, and away they went over stock and stone so quick that their hair whistled in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Grimms' Fairy Tales • The Brothers Grimm
... may have another odd experience: a river ride in an ox-cart. Florida rivers are usually shallow, and when the water is high you can travel for miles across country behind oxen, with more or less river under you all the way. There are ancient jokes about Florida steamboats that travel on heavy dews, and use ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Southern Stories - Retold from St. Nicholas • Various
... you were to push the matter, where will the sheriff or the military find us? In a week and the judge will arrive, and the court will be in session. For that week we shall be out of the way. Nobody shall know—nobody can find us. This day's work will most probably give us all a great itch for travel." ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... others, had withdrawn from the tables, and were standing in the doorway of the pavilion, when Hamlet's glance fell upon the familiar form of a young man who stood with one foot on the lower step, holding his plumed bonnet in his hand. His hose and doublet were travel-worn, but his honest face was as fresh ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Midnight Fantasy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... his fair cheek pillowed on his arm; the soft, silky ringlets thrown from the delicate and unclouded brow; the natural bloom increased by warmth and travel; the lovely face so innocent and hushed; the breathing so gentle and regular, as if ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... made his way into the Arctic Ocean from the east, and was now commencing his long winter imprisonment at Bridport Inlet, Melville Island, in September 1852. The only time that exploring parties can travel is during daylight in the early autumn or in the spring. The spring is most fitted for crossing the Frozen Sea, before the ice breaks up and the cold has become less intense. In the autumn of 1852, Lieutenant Median, of the Resolute, was ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston
... farm where Bowser the Hound was flew Blacky the Crow. Every few minutes he would caw encouragement to Reddy Fox, who, as you know, was following, but who of course could not travel as fast as did Blacky. In between times Blacky would chuckle to himself. He was mightily ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Bowser The Hound • Thornton W. Burgess
... Violet. "Perhaps, however, it doesn't matter so much in your case. It is only women who travel and see the world who really need to be upon ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... two hundred and eighty pounds, and her extreme haste, added to her extreme corpulency, produced a most amazing result when Esmeralda elected to travel ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... cord, with a patch on his eye, and riding a powerful mare. He asked me the question of the day, and whither I was bound, and whether my mother was not afraid on account of the highwaymen to let one so young as myself to travel? But I said, pulling out one of them from a holster, that I had a pair of good pistols that had already done execution, and were ready to do it again; and here, a pock-marked man coming up, he put spurs into his bay mare and left me. She was a much more powerful ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... all. Whilst we lie waiting here as those sick men did at the Pool of [2086] Bethesda, till the Angel stirred the water, expecting a good hour, they step between, and beguile us of our preferment. I have not yet said, if after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last; our misery begins afresh, we are suddenly encountered with the flesh, world, and devil, with a new onset; we change a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... inquisitor gravely; a subtle melancholy darkened his agreeable countenance. "I travel ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
... safe journey by land to Paris, and so to Calais and Dover; or to go up to Madrid, and so all the way by laud through France. In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calas to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old captain brought an English gentleman, the son of a merchant in Lisbon, who was willing to travel ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1 • Daniel Defoe
... himself had set to it, shrinking from neither frost nor heat, and he tried to be as thoroughly acquainted with every portion of it as if the Empire were a small estate he had inherited. His duties as a sovereign forced him to travel, and his love of travel lightened the duty. He was possessed by a real passion to understand and learn everything. Even the Incomprehensible set no limits to his thirst for knowledge, but ever striving ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Uarda • Georg Ebers
... to his own showing they were alone together when he died. What was to prevent it? I want to know more about it, and I am going to, if I have to travel to the Gold Coast myself. I will tell you frankly, Mr. Cuthbert—I suspect Mr. Scarlett Trent. No, don't interrupt me. It may seem absurd to you now that he is Mr. Scarlett Trent, millionaire, with the odour of civilisation clinging to him, and the respectability of wealth. But I, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... be delightful to travel," gushed Bessie, seizing on the topic. She exacted a programme from him, punctuated by her "Delightful! Delightful!" of the places ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... to soften him." Then Silverbridge told all that he knew about himself. He was to be married in May, was to go to Matching for a week or two after his wedding, was then to see the Session to an end, and after that to travel with his wife in the United States. "I don't suppose we shall be allowed to run about the world together so soon as that," said Tregear, "but I am too well satisfied with my day's ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope
... After the Marechal's death, Casimir, the abdicated King of Poland, who was retired into France, fell in love with the Marechale, and privately married her. If the event ever happens, I shall certainly travel to Nancy, to hear her talk of ma belle fille la Reine de France. What pains my Lady Pomfret would take to prove that an abdicated King's wife did not take place of an English countess; and how the Princess herself would grow still fonder of the Pretender for ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole
... vassals, and surrounded by the pomps of royalty, a happy boy; for tomorrow was the day appointed for his solemn crowning as King of England. At that same hour, Edward, the true king, hungry and thirsty, soiled and draggled, worn with travel, and clothed in rags and shreds—his share of the results of the riot—was wedged in among a crowd of people who were watching with deep interest certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster Abbey, busy as ants: they were ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... for, and six creamy flannel and serge suits were ordered, made with the short coats, which he preferred, with a gray suit or two for travel, and he did not wear black again, except for evening dress and on special occasions. It was a gratifying change, and though the newspapers made much of it, there was no one who was not gladdened by the beauty of his garments and their general harmony with his person. He had never ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the reason why you will find (if you travel there, as I trust you may, for nowhere are the ladies fairer or the men so gallant) more windows in the Duchy of Deodonato than anywhere in the wide world besides. For the more windows, the wider the view; and the wider ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... of a home in this raw New World trying to revive the fading outlines and colors of scenes which, though unforgotten, tend to mingle with the visions of Dreamland; and they are capital wishing-carpets for those who can travel only in fancy. In the introduction there is an excellent passage on the distinctive differences between the great Italian cities: "Each has its own individual sovereignty; its own chronicles; its own politics, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... very noble blood: his father was brother to the Earl of Arran, and his mother sister to the Duke of Albany: so nearly was he on both sides related to the King. He was provided of the Abbey of Fern in his youth; and being designed for greater preferments, he was sent to travel," &c.—(Hist. of the Reform., vol. i. p. 291.) Similar terms are employed by ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... door in the animal's face and started off up the side-heading. There had not been much travel on this road during the last year. Most of the chambers in this part of the mine had been worked out ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene
... if there were? 'The way is pleasant.' What to me the way? I cannot reach her till the close of day. My dumb companion! Is it thus we speed? Not I from grief nor thou from toil art freed; Still art thou doom'd to travel and to pine, For my vexation—What a fate is mine! "Gone to a friend, she tells me;—I commend Her purpose: means she to a female friend? By Heaven, I wish she suffer'd half the pain Of hope protracted through the day in vain. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Tales • George Crabbe
... withstand them," Fielding resolved, with the approval of a very eminent physician, to put an already formed project into immediate execution. This was to seek further recovery in some warmer climate. At first Aix was thought of, but here the difficulties of travel in the reign of George II. for invalids of slender means, proved insuperable. The journey by land, "beside the expense of it," Fielding found to be "infinitely too long and fatiguing"; and no ship was announced as sailing within ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... in the world," he rejoined, standing in front of her. "Should n't you like to travel about and see something of the country? Won't you go to Niagara? You ought ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Europeans • Henry James
... son) his part of the matter Must be with this only to cover my daughter; Let him put it upon her with's own Royal Hand, Then let him go travel to visit the Land; And the Spirit of Love Shall come from above, Though not as before, in form of a Dove; Yet down He shall come in some likeness or other (Perhaps like Count Dada), and make ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry • Edmund Goldsmid
... within itself, having its local manners and customs, its local history and local opinions. The inhabitants were fonder of their homes, and thought less of wandering. It was looked upon as an expedition to travel out of sight of the parish steeple; and a man that had been to London was a village oracle for the rest ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... one does not require a passport to travel five leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is that she shall never set eyes on you again so ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... by no means an easy road to travel financially. The doubling of the subscription price to one dollar per year had materially checked the income for the time being; the huge advertising bills, sometimes exceeding three hundred thousand dollars a year, were difficult to pay; large credit had to be obtained, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok
... dear sir," replied the inventor "I know and appreciate your thoughtful kindness toward us; and I consider your advice most excellent, especially as I intend to travel in Europe, and take out patents for my invention there. It would be desirable to have my Pet learn French, and also to improve her knowledge of music. You understand the English branches pretty well, I believe, my dear. Let me see—how long is it ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... different, as regards speed of transit, at any rate, from the electric current to which it had been so often likened. An electric current would flash halfway round the globe while a nervous impulse could travel the length of the human body—from a man's foot to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... civilization, like Montesquieu and Buckle, sought to explain the culture and behavior of peoples as the direct result of the physical environment. Friedrich Ratzel with his "thorough training as a naturalist, broad reading, and travel" and above all, his comprehensive knowledge of ethnology, recognized the importance of direct effects, such as cultural isolation. Jean Brunhes, by the selection of small natural units, his so-called "islands," has made intensive studies of isolated groups in the oases of the deserts ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... Satan, the enemy of all who will do right, was forced to flee. Had Edwin listened to the suggestions longer or given the wicked one any encouragement to stay, there would have been no end to his arguments; for it is the business of Satan to discourage and dishearten all who seek to travel upon the highway that leads ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher • Isabel C. Byrum
... coming up to Babylon diverts him, besides which, the Chaldaeans have assured him that the planet Adar, which belongs to their war-god Chanon, promises a great victory to the Persian arms. When do you think you shall be able to travel, Bartja?" ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Uarda • Georg Ebers
... have something to say in that regard. By midnight the moon would illumine nearly the whole of Prospect Park. If the Mahommedan were slain in front of the cavern his soul would travel to the next world attended by a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... too weak to travel any further, Valeria. Will you come to me and forgive me?" A few pencil-marks followed; but they were illegible. The writing of those two short sentences ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... shall record later some of those arresting realities which the traveller does not expect; and which, in some cases I fear, he actually does not see because he does not expect. I shall try to do justice to the psychology of what Mr. Belloc has called 'Eye-Openers in Travel.' But there are some things about America that a man ought to see even with his eyes shut. One is that a state that came into existence solely through its repudiation and abhorrence of the British Crown is not likely to be a respectful copy ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton
... by trumpet and bonfires at night, and in some districts by a salvo of rifles, the whole Montenegrin Army can be mobilised at any given spot within the time that the furthest detachment can travel to the place of rendezvous. An example of the rapidity and ease of this mobilisation was once given to the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Cetinje, when an army, drawn from every part of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon
... in with their burden of wounded men. They travel slowly, come to a gradual stop, without jolting or jarring; but instead of the rush of passengers to alight, which usually follows the arrival of a train, there is silence, infinite quiet. Then, somewhere, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... upon her rock. Landless, still upon his knee beside her, watched her with a beating heart, while the Susquehannock, leaning upon his gun, bent his darkly impassive looks upon them both. At length the latter said, "We must be far from here before the dogs behind us awake, and the Gold Hair cannot travel ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... whose chief stores consist of honey, live in dread of the bears, because, attracted by its perfume, they will not hesitate to attack their rude dwellings, when allured by this irresistible temptation. The Post-office runners, who always travel by night, are frequently exposed to danger from these animals, especially along the coast from Putlam to Aripo, where they are found in considerable numbers; and, to guard against surprise, they are accustomed to carry flambeaux, to give warning to the bears, and enable them to shuffle out ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... "they must be broken by such a tempest! We shall see to-morrow. However that may be, if any men have to travel in such a night ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... Many days of fruitless travel and the young men began to despair of success. Quincy was debating with himself whether it would not be better to give up the search for his mother, and follow up the clue about his father. He felt ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... we got into a "buggy" and went our way. The road was slightly sandy a good part of the twelve miles we had to travel, though it became less so as we drew near to the celebrated prairie. And celebrated, and that by an abler pen than ours, does this remarkable place deserve to be! We found all our expectations concerning ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
... very little of those strange women and babies. Not but that he liked the babies, of course. They were his sons, and he was proud of them. They should have every advantage that college, special training, and travel could give them. He quite anticipated what they would be to him—when they really knew anything. But, of course, now, when they could do nothing but cry and wave their absurd little fists, and wobble their heads in so fearsome a manner, as if they simply ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... the flat behind the trapper was a lank, long-limbed horse from which he had just dismounted, and which looked travel-stained and weary like his master. The news the man brought was worthy of consideration, and Ralph listened with rapt attention and with a heart that beat hard and quick, though he said no ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... in force shall dispute the crossing of the Occoquan, what? In view of this, might it not be safest for us to cross the Occoquan at Coichester, rather than at the village of Occoquan? This would cost the enemy two miles of travel to meet us, but would, on the contrary, leave us two miles farther from ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... farewell drop, for the padre and Antonio to divide between them. Antonio, however, appropriated no part of it to himself; he pulled off his cap exclusively to the padre, without even looking at Laurella. But after they had turned their backs, he let his eyes travel but a short way with the padre, as he went toiling over the deep bed of small, loose stones; he soon sent them after the maiden, who, turning to the right, had begun to climb the heights, holding one hand above ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Stories by Foreign Authors: German • Various
... could hear them talking quite plainly, and dreaded their return with the sentence of death. Presently the conversation grew animated, and Lord John found, to his surprise, they were talking about anything in the world except himself. On coming back, all the advice they gave was that he ought to travel abroad for a time. It jumped with his mood, and he took it, and to the end of his days travel never failed to restore ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid
... in electrolysis, by the name of ions. If the gas be then placed in an electric field, produced, for instance, by two metallic plates connected with the two poles of a battery respectively, the positive ions will travel towards the plate connected with the negative pole, and the negative ions in the contrary direction. There is thus produced a current due to the transport to the electrodes of the charges which ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... since he was lord of the sea, and might oblige it to give marks of obedience as well as the earth; so he enclosed the whole bay within his bridge, and drove his chariot over it; and thought that, as he was a god, it was fit for him to travel over such roads as this was. Nor did he abstain from the plunder of any of the Grecian temples, and gave order that all the engravings and sculptures, and the rest of the ornaments of the statues and donations therein dedicated, should be ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
... that of Pale.[191] The coast is covered by numerous towns and cities. It is watered by two famous rivers, the Taptii and Tapei[192] by many creeks that form several islands. Guzerat is all plain, so that they generally travel in waggons, as in Flanders, but lighter made, which are easily drawn by oxen, smaller than those of Spain. The country breeds cattle in great abundance, and plenty of provisions of all sorts. The natives are of four different kinds. The first called Baneanes Baganzariis, feed after our manner: ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... to slay each other, inclusive of their respective friends, but failing in the effort, gave it up when the final surrender took place at Appomattox. Both were from New Constantinople, and they now turned their faces in that direction. Starting from widely separated points their lines of travel converged and finally joined. When they met, there was a moment of mutual sharp scrutiny, then an exclamation of delight, a fervent handclasp and a moistening of the eyes, as ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... proprietors; he has fewer headlands and fences, harbouring weeds and stopping the sun and air. The large farmer can work corn and sheep together; one shepherd and his boy will look after 500 ewes. You may travel 200 miles by rail in France and not see two flocks of sheep. Sheep-farming is seen all the world over to be an industry that pays on the large scale; and the want of it injures the corn produce of the French ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Speculations from Political Economy • C. B. Clarke
... prevailing on his pupil, with great difficulty, to subdue a violent and imprudent passion which he had conceived for a Hottentot lady, of great beauty and accomplishments indeed, but of dubious character, he will travel with him to the United States of America. But that tremendous war which will be fatal to American liberty will, at that time, be raging through the whole federation. At New York the travellers will hear of the final defeat and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine] • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... admitted us into the sitting-room where we had had our first interview with her and a moment later she appeared. She was evidently not dressed for dinner, although it was almost time, and I saw Kennedy's eye travel from her to a chair in the corner over which was draped a linen automobile coat and a heavy veil. Had she been preparing to go somewhere, too? The door to Alfonso's room was open and he clearly was not there. What did ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve
... They stayed so long mother sent me to call them, and when I got there, the man was telling Leon how foolish it was for boys to live on a farm; how they never would amount to anything unless they went to cities, and about all the fun there was there, and how nice it was to travel, even along the roads, because every one fed you, and gave you a good bed. He forgot that walking had made his foot lame, and I couldn't see, to save me, why he was going to spend his money to buy ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... hardly believe," went on De Chauxville, taking the proffered chair, "that my appearance was opportune—on the principle, ha! ha! that a flower growing out of place is a weed. Gentlemen of the—eh—Home Office prefer, I know, to travel quietly!" He spread out his expressive hands as if smoothing the path of M. Vassili through this stony world. "Incognito," he ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... first. Mr. Whitlock told this writer that H. did with good will more work than any two performers they had. "I have known him," said the old gentleman, "after performing in both play and after-piece at Newcastle in Northumberland, set off without taking a moment's rest in a post-chaise, travel all night, and rehearse the next day and perform the next night in play and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 • Various
... constructed a submarine boat for discharging torpedoes and exploring the sea bottom, which is propelled by a screw and an electric motor fed by accumulators. It can travel entirely under water, below the agitation of the waves, where sea-sickness is impossible, and the inventor hopes that vessels of the kind will yet carry ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Story Of Electricity • John Munro
... natives—was anything but satisfactory, and made my father resolve to continue the journey next morning, instead of resting a day, as he had proposed; and my mother declared that she was perfectly able to travel, provided we could make a shorter stage than on the previous days. The account we gave of the curious skeleton dance performed by the blacks made Mudge, Tom, and Harry determine to go and see it. Burton offered to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston
... criticism; and, so far as regards astronomy, as will Ptolemy beyond rivalry [sic: no doubt some words omitted]. Believe me to be, Sir, with the profoundest respect, etc. The work is the result of thirty-five years' travel and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... sadly this morning why he had hurried home before the doctors wished him to travel; he had been restlessly anxious to get to Oakfield, and now he scarcely knew why. How could he meet Angelica and Betty, when he had come back safe, only useless and helpless, and the boy they had trusted to him, the boy who ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Two Maiden Aunts • Mary H. Debenham
... is, indeed, not a record of travel and adventure, but a treatise, admirably written and replete with facts, in demonstration of the great superiority of the Norwegian system of land tenure over that of any other part of civilized Europe. His views have, moreover, been to a great extent adopted ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various
... and early in the spring, as soon as we could travel, the civil employees of the government, with the teamsters and freighters, started for the Missouri river; the Johnson expedition having been abandoned. On the way down we stopped at Fort Laramie, and there met a supply train bound westward. Of course we all had a square meal once ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Hon. William F. Cody - Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide • William F. Cody
... who travel the main trails don't see much of what is going on in the mountains—the real life of the mountains," he said. "You have no conception of the real dangers which these hills contain. Yes, sir, they're ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... rise to this volume were of a novel and perhaps unprecedented kind. Two young American girls started for "the grand tour" with the father of one of them, and he being compelled to return home from London they were courageous enough to continue their journeyings alone. They spent two years in travel,—going as far north as the North Cape and south to the Nile, and including in their itinerary St. Petersburg and Moscow. Miss Ninde's narrative is written in a fresh and sprightly but unsensational style, which, with the unusual experiences portrayed, renders the work quite unlike ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
... of it, in consequence of my feet having been galled by the snow-shoes; this, however, is an evil which few escape on their initiation to winter travelling. It excites no pity from the more experienced companions of the journey, who travel on as fast as they can, regardless of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin
... front and asked the lecturer if he could make a place for him at Eos ... that he was out of a job ... starving ... a poor German scholar ... formerly, in better days, a man of much wealth and travel.... ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... often travel over beaten ground, and treat of subjects that have already been discussed by abler pens. Indeed, various authors have been mentioned as my models, to whom I should feel flattered if I thought I bore the slightest resemblance; but in truth I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... a fixed space; this is sometimes extended to three or four months, but seldom more than half that time. A certain set of venerable old Gentlemen, who wear very long nails as a distinguishing badge on the thumb, fore, and middle finger of each hand, constantly travel through the nation (when I was there I was told there were but five of this respectable order) that one of them may acquaint those concerned, of the expiration of this period, which is according to their own fancy; the day being come, the friends and relations ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... its varied scenery and movement. From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same. This interchange between dead memories and present life is the delight of travel. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... Japan, clad in European clothing, using watches and running on "railroad time," has dropped the slow-going style of Old Japan and has acquired habits of rapid walking, direct clear-cut conversation, and punctuality in business and travel (comparatively speaking) proves conclusively the correctness of my contention. New Japan is entering into the hurry and bustle of Occidental life, because, in contact with the West, she has adopted in a large ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick
... the joy the pilgrim feels, After long travel to some distant shrine, When at the relic of his saint he kneels, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange |