All 7 Uses of
excursion
in
Wuthering Heights
- Mrs. Linton took off the grey cloak of the dairy-maid which we had borrowed for our excursion, shaking her head and expostulating with her, I suppose: she was a young lady, and they made a distinction between her treatment and mine.†
Chpt 6 *
- She gave a faithful account of her excursion and its consequences; and my master, though he cast more than one reproachful look at me, said nothing till she had concluded.†
Chpt 21
- 'On the morrow I was sad; partly because you were poorly, and partly that I wished my father knew, and approved of my excursions: but it was beautiful moonlight after tea; and, as I rode on, the gloom cleared.†
Chpt 24
- 'Well, we'll turn our horses' heads round when we reach him,' answered my companion; 'our excursion shall lie towards home.'†
Chpt 26
- We deferred our excursion till the afternoon; a golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.†
Chpt 27
- Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.†
Chpt 32
- We heard him mount the stairs directly; he did not proceed to his ordinary chamber, but turned into that with the panelled bed: its window, as I mentioned before, is wide enough for anybody to get through; and it struck me that he plotted another midnight excursion, of which he had rather we had no suspicion.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(excursion) a short journey taken for pleasure
or:
a digression from the main path of a journey