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  • We wore hats for these excursions.†   (source)
  • All of a sudden, our ham excursions no longer seemed fun and innocent.†   (source)
  • Would you like to join me for an excursion before dinner?†   (source)
  • The shopping excursion was the first of many encounters between my grandfather and this man, who would become a mentor, teacher, and friend to him.†   (source)
  • "No long excursions about police corruption," I said.†   (source)
  • Harry planned his excursion carefully, because he had been caught out of bed and out-of-bounds by Filch the caretaker in the middle of the night once before, and had no desire to repeat the experience.†   (source)
  • A bus had been bought to take people who needed it on excursions.†   (source)
  • I would spend the following day going through all the paperwork and canceling every trip, every excursion I had booked.†   (source)
  • "Well, Dad," my mom said with a laugh, "your excursion across the street seems to have done you a world of good."†   (source)
  • I took excursions into South Carolina.†   (source)
  • This is not a weekend excursion-†   (source)
  • He even let me tag along with him on his excursions about town.†   (source)
  • Denied his long-sought excursion to Sawyer Depot, he captured the two most major, nonspeaking roles in the only dramatic productions offered in Gravesend that holiday season.†   (source)
  • The play she had written for Leon's homecoming was her first excursion into drama, and she had found the transition quite effortless.†   (source)
  • That would put an end to this little excursion very quickly and probably earn me a cable noose around my neck.†   (source)
  • Finally I figured if I'm caught, I'm caught, because whether I went back now or kept going, one way or another word of my late-night excursion would circle back to my dad.†   (source)
  • If she could, my wife would accompany me on my evening excursions, for one of her Many loves was poetry.†   (source)
  • They laughed a great deal on these sled excursions around the house, but the whooping and impersonal voice of the wind, so huge and hollowly sincere, made their laughter seem tinny and forced.†   (source)
  • But the salivation notion is too alluring, and now there's an excursion into the mouth.†   (source)
  • "Since you're going to be out of commission, Marjorie," Kate said, "I was rather hoping we could have your permission to make another excursion."†   (source)
  • Perhaps the evening excursion down the cliff is related to all of this.†   (source)
  • Hunt grimaced; the trip from New York and the excursion to Jackson Park had worsened his gout.†   (source)
  • She goes on a nightlong excursion through the world of the outcasts and the dispossessed of San Francisco; enters her therapist's office to talk him out of his psychotic shooting rampage (the dangerous enclosure known in the study of traditional quest romances as "ChapelPerilous"); involves herself in what may be a centuries-old postal conspiracy 5) The real reason to go: did I mention that her name is Oedipa?†   (source)
  • No accounts exist of any of these excursions, am I right?†   (source)
  • We began our excursion up to Pine Knob the following Saturday, each of us carrying a paper bag full of bottles filled with different mixes.†   (source)
  • Meg glowered at me as if our little Greek excursion had been my fault and not …. well, only indirectly my fault.†   (source)
  • So on weekends, Chicharron and I went out on excursions, looking for good times.†   (source)
  • She read a story once about a middle-aged Turkish man who had suddenly slipped into a deep depression when the twin brother he never knew existed had suffered a fatal heart attack while on a canoe excursion in the Amazon rain forest.†   (source)
  • Big Man the Laltain sahib, Small Man the Mombatti," an old coolie, who met Estha's school excursion party at the railway station (unfailingly, year after year) used to say of dreams.†   (source)
  • Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little, restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house, but of course, over time, one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another, and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized.†   (source)
  • However, the moment inevitably came when one of your friends would let slip a remark to the effect that it would be nice for this little party, engaged in such pleasant conversation, to go on an excursion somewhere one fine Sunday, say Otwock.†   (source)
  • Our last excursion there didn't end so well, what with my stepping on the tablets and having to meet with an Official.†   (source)
  • So this first excursion was for her a fascinating adventure idealized in her girlhood dreams.†   (source)
  • One of them came up this way on a side excursion from the Northwest Passage.†   (source)
  • "We'll just he paying for our drinks and going " It wasn't long after our excellent excursion into the Boca alfresco-dining scene that I found a book in the library titled No Bad Dogs by the acclaimed British dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.†   (source)
  • In the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen the night lanterns were kindled; tourists from Seattle poured forth from the excursion steamers to perform the Svenska polka, the Rhinelander, the schottische, and the hambone.†   (source)
  • But she took me to plenty of informal gatherings, not only parties in the teahouses, but swimming excursions, sightseeing tours, Kabuki plays, and so on.†   (source)
  • Even so, night after night, she returned to the shed, for these excursions were what mattered now They were her secret rebellion, her heart hungering, her little underground of one.†   (source)
  • The Blue Bird Inn doesn't appear in the photograph, but it was parked nearby, ready for family excursions, on a dirt road beside the creek.†   (source)
  • One of our leaders on those excursions was a pretty young woman named Lois, about twenty-five at the time, who wore long braids, full skirts, and peasant blouses.†   (source)
  • Between the births of Beverly and Nancy, three more years elapsed, and these were the years of the Sunday picnics and of summer excursions to Colorado, the years when she really ran her own home and was the happy center of it.†   (source)
  • On these first excursions Moody remained at my side, watching me closely, but I was pleased to note the signs of boredom in his demeanor.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, that day in Cape Town was the first of many excursions.†   (source)
  • No excursions, no calls.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it's a bad group, I admit," McMurphy said, "but it's a planned, authorized, legal government-sponsored excursion, and we're entitled to a legal discount just the same as if we was the FBI."†   (source)
  • He remembered his excursions into the minds of birds and squirrels and mice, how full of energy they felt and how vigorously they fought for the right to exist in the face of danger.†   (source)
  • Mami didn't think these excursions would cure anything, but the one time she had brought it up to Papi he had told her to shut up, what did she know about anything anyway?†   (source)
  • I accompanied the Blue's Clues research team on one of their weekly excursions to talk to preschoolers.†   (source)
  • "Well, I only thought since you and Stoddard are such great friends," Hardwick persisted, "he might have mentioned to you some excursion, or made opportunity to talk with you alone, sometime last night—to—to say something.†   (source)
  • He asked me if I would be joining the guys this evening in an excursion to the nearby domain of Pompey, where the amber of the gods would be quaffed by a select group of Knights.†   (source)
  • Still without money in my prison account, I was washing with loaned soap and was deeply envious of the other prisoners' weekly shopping excursions.†   (source)
  • Our whole excursion into the spirit world has taken only a minute, though Sally Carny's face seems to have aged ten years in that brief time.†   (source)
  • No visitors were allowed in the first four months, then Emily visits were permitted on prearranged weekends for a few hours, and then, with good behavior, eight-hour passes for day excursions were issued.†   (source)
  • In the back of the Excursion, I could feel my heart beating.†   (source)
  • Marcos had various travel journals in which he recorded his excursions and impressions, as well as a collection of maps and books of stories and fairy tales that he kept in the trunks he stored in the junk room at the far end of the third courtyard.†   (source)
  • What a sight we must have been: two old sames on their first excursion, trying to walk on remembered feet with only exhilaration to keep them from falling, and an older woman dressed in a gaudy outfit yelling at them, "Stop that bad behavior, or we'll go home right now!†   (source)
  • A little excursion like that can make a whole day.†   (source)
  • They took frequent excursions to the Alps.†   (source)
  • Now she and Ghosh traded how-are-yous and I-am-wells, bowing, the deep excursions diminishing till the last few were mere inclinations of the head.†   (source)
  • It was an unwelcome excursion into his past, and for many reasons he made it only when necessary, which wasn't very often.†   (source)
  • In his own opinion, however, it was too late in the season for any British movements of consequence, other than a few "excursions" into New Jersey perhaps, to revive the "drooping" spirits of the many Loyalists there.†   (source)
  • She has now run away from three foster families in three months and obviously risks coming to some harm during her excursions.†   (source)
  • But I had never seen London, and so when Charles proposed that we first try this or that entertainment or excursion, I did not hesitate to say, yes, yes, let us do it all.†   (source)
  • Attolia responded with invitations to musicals and dancing and excursions into the countryside.†   (source)
  • Weathered signs advertised public beaches, fresh lobster, and clamming excursions.†   (source)
  • Let's go back to New York together and take one of those excursion boat trips around the island of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • She was a widow, I a bachelor (if a father), both of us well into our middle years, and to step together among the drooping peonies was as innocent as any Sunday excursion in a botanical park.†   (source)
  • No one had ever been killed on such an excursion, or even detected.†   (source)
  • With winter coming on, Regis figured that this might well be his last excursion of the year to the lake; he didn't go in for winter fishing, like some of the fanatically greedy humans of Ten-Towns.†   (source)
  • Oz, Lou, and Diamond were in the back, sitting on sacks of seed and other supplies purchased from McKenzie's Mercantile using egg money and some of the dollars Lou had left over from her shopping excursion in Dickens.†   (source)
  • In New York he gave managing director of a hotel chain, one with rabbit trade mark, a sketch of what could be done with resorts in Luna—once excursion rates were within reach of more people—visits too short to hurt anyone, escort service included, exotic side trips, gambling—no taxes.†   (source)
  • 'It's the five-hour excursion,' explained Jason accurately, reading the Chinese characters printed on the identification tag affixed to the man's lapel.†   (source)
  • The secretary then listed several steps the federal government had taken to prevent or disrupt a potential attack, though he made no mention of the situation unfolding across the Potomac River, where, at 12:18 p.m., two women—subjects one and two, as they were known—had returned to their hotel room after a brief shopping excursion to Tysons Corner Center.†   (source)
  • They still spent most of each day at or near the summer den, but they were usually so tired from their nightly excursions that they did little but sleep.†   (source)
  • Except for one visit to the circus and a weekend excursion into the countryside, they stayed close to the boardinghouse.†   (source)
  • When she died I was able to physically leave the place I'd been making little mind excursions from ever since I learned to read.†   (source)
  • The Poppet had made such nocturnal excursions common enough, but then there had been no question of his remaining asleep through the uproar.†   (source)
  • Oedipa pulled into the lot, got out and stood for a moment in the hot sun and the dead-still air. watching the artificial windstorm overhead toss gauze in five-foot excursions.†   (source)
  • 'Sophie had looked forward to their excursion for days.†   (source)
  • 50 each way, cheaper if I could run into an excursion rate out of Washington.†   (source)
  • Now, three years later, after the last bad fall, she had managed to forget the fatigue and loneliness and, in these free-wheeling excursions back through time, to recapture happiness.†   (source)
  • Relatives in Savannah and Hilton Head hired an excursion boat to transport mourners to the island.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we made a weekend excursion to the hippopotamus island in the river, above the rapids.†   (source)
  • Two places had struck him in the course of these excursions and remained in his memory.†   (source)
  • Being now destitute of provisions, the travellers found it necessary to make a short hunting excursion after buffalo.   (source)
  • Every seat was crowded, too; for it was Sunday, and consequently everybody was taking a "pleasure" excursion.   (source)
  • On one of those excursions, I met Camila Martinez.†   (source)
  • He announced the upcoming excursion at the breakfast table.†   (source)
  • My father had taken me on the Templar Excursion when I was three.†   (source)
  • It was the first time that she had hailed him for an excursion this late in the day.†   (source)
  • His voice was deep, an excursion into puberty that had left the rest of us behind.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed these transnational diagnostic excursions, for him small acts of redistribution.†   (source)
  • He left Caen, where he was living, to go on a geologic excursion.†   (source)
  • It was my first excursion out of the Salcedo province in three months.†   (source)
  • She was going to take me on an excursion, she said.†   (source)
  • I walked as far as the cemetery: one needs a goal for these otherwise witless excursions.†   (source)
  • In addition to these educational excursions, Richard encouraged me to go shopping.†   (source)
  • Just the thing for a day excursion into a tomb of the undead.†   (source)
  • "So we booked the Tartarus excursion, but no one even mentioned we'd run into Nyx.†   (source)
  • Gullberg's excursion lasted nearly three hours.†   (source)
  • "Exactly!" she says, as if I have missed the entire point of our excursion.†   (source)
  • Cleaning her paws, Lila gazed out the window and seemed to reconsider the excursion.†   (source)
  • After their little excursion to Tuck's, Abee realized he was starving.†   (source)
  • He's got a boat at the Fish Pier, does deep-sea excursions.†   (source)
  • In the long, eventful lives of Adams and Jefferson, it was an excursion of no importance to history.†   (source)
  • Shiva returned just as we were finishing dinner, pleased with his excursion to Akaki.†   (source)
  • Every excursion I took, every rial I spent, was first cleared with him.†   (source)
  • Also, it was hoped the excursion to town would do him good.†   (source)
  • The bike weaved and the handlebars made wide excursions.†   (source)
  • With Nabby and Colonel Smith, they set off for a weeklong excursion to Essex.†   (source)
  • Two dapper undertakers accompanied the body from Savannah on the excursion boat.†   (source)
  • I invited her to make an excursion to Washington.†   (source)
  • Beside it was a ceramic ashtray with a paddlewheel excursion boat printed on the bottom encircled by the words, SOUVENIR OF HANNIBAL, MISSOURI , HOME OF AMERICA'S STORY TELLER!†   (source)
  • James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it but I can tell — also Dumbledore's still got his Invisibility Cloak, so no chance of little excursions.†   (source)
  • He'd gone to New York on an excursion with his father, who was still rich then and also still alive; they'd seen the opera.†   (source)
  • It would be useful to have a bar of soap: he keeps forgetting to pick one up during his pilfering excursions.†   (source)
  • During that trip, Hall's first to the Himalaya, he made a side excursion to Everest Base Camp and resolved that one day he would climb the world's highest mountain.†   (source)
  • This last part was not true; in fact, Harry had seen his father use the spell on Snape, but he had never told Ron and Hermione about that particular excursion into the Pensieve.†   (source)
  • Judging by their worried looks, and by the continued pounding of his scar, his sudden excursion into Voldemort's mind had not passed unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Eric Shipton Upon That Mountain just before dawn on Tuesday, April 16, after resting for two days at Base Camp, we headed up into the Icefall to begin our second acclimatization excursion.†   (source)
  • Christmas morning found a brand-new toboggan beneath the tree and enough snow gear to outfit an excursion to Antarctica, but the view out our windows remained all bare branches, dormant lawns, and brown cornfields.†   (source)
  • Harry was diligently avoiding contact with any of them; he was sure that, sooner or later, he would be asked again to account for Dumbledore's last excursion from Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • My one memory of a family excursion to an art museum ended with my father asking, "Did we have to pay to get into this place?"†   (source)
  • This verges on the truth: he has half accepted an invitation of Miss Lydia's, to join a party of young people in a rowing excursion on the inner harbour.†   (source)
  • From time to time during the afternoons I went on excursions, including some very peculiar ones, such as accompanying a man on a visit to his brother in the hospital.†   (source)
  • More likely the two older boys discovered that their five-year-old victim did not mind the excursion; that far from struggling and shrieking, he merely gazed at the skeleton with cool appreciation.†   (source)
  • When Florentino Ariza left his bed, with his back on fire and carrying a walking stick for the first time instead of his umbrella, his first excursion was to Fermina Daza's house.†   (source)
  • He gave advice, cool, sensible, and unfailingly correct; he knew more than the graveyard folk did, for his nightly excursions into the world outside meant that he was able to describe a world that was current, not hundreds of years out of date; he was unflappable and dependable, had been there every night of Bod's life, so the idea of the little chapel without its only inhabitant was one that Bod found difficult to conceive of most of all, he made Bod feel safe.†   (source)
  • In deference to the gravity, this was the shortest of the Templar Excursion trails, curving back after only two hundred or so meters.†   (source)
  • It was just as well that at this time it became fashionable to drive out in the afternoon in hired old Victorias that had been converted to one-horse carriages, and that the excursion ended on a hill where one could appreciate the heartbreaking twilights of October better than from the lighthouse, and observe the watchful sharks lurking at the seminarians' beach, and see the Thursday ocean liner, huge and white, that could almost be touched with one's hands as it passed through the…†   (source)
  • I began the column by describing my walk down the hill with the shovel at dawn and how odd it was to be outdoors without Marley, who for thirteen years had made it his business to be at my side for any excursion.†   (source)
  • The fast-track acclimatization schedule followed by Hall and most other modern Everesters is remarkably efficient: it allows climbers to embark for the summit after spending a relatively brief four-week period above 17,000 feet-including just a single overnight acclimatization excursion to 24,000 feet.†   (source)
  • In this manner, Nina coerced the Count to join her on one of her favorite excursions: spying from the balcony of the ballroom.†   (source)
  • It was only when I reached the hushed interior of the Grand Hall and saw him shoving his way up the crowded escalator to the Excursion Mezzanine that I realized where he was headed.†   (source)
  • Because he'd encouraged his clients to move up and down the mountain independently during the acclimatization period, he ended up having to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down.†   (source)
  • Laura did not come on these excursions.†   (source)
  • The gentleman with the queue who was recently murdered on the Temple Excursion, was this not the same man whom you introduced as your bodyguard a week earlier?†   (source)
  • It was only here, halfway along the Templar Excursion trail, that they allowed human structures to shelter weary hikers while they purchased refreshments or souvenirs to benefit the Templar Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Every FORCE:space shuttle carried some sort of atmospheric egress device-it was a custom dating back almost eight centuries to when the entire realm of space flight consisted only of tentative excursions just above the skin of Old Earth's atmosphere.†   (source)
  • He was dressed like a normal American teen on an outdoor excursion—a black workout top that fit him quite well, hiking pants, and boots.†   (source)
  • After the day's excursion, the boat would take off again, slowly down the river, and the afternoon would stretch out without a plan or obligation.†   (source)
  • So with death this near he thought numbly but purely upon a billion vanities, arrivals, departures, idiot excursions of boy, boyman, man and old-man goat.†   (source)
  • We were by ourselves, on a two-week excursion that turned out to have something to do with Ben's business.†   (source)
  • It was early in the afternoon when they arrived at the location Arya had designated: a gentle curve in the Ramr River that marked its farthest excursion eastward.†   (source)
  • She felt the old, helpless terror that she had almost completely forgotten as parents do the alarms and the excursions of their children's early years: the teething, the vaccination that brought the frighteningly high fever as a little extra added attraction, the croup, the car infection, the hand or leg that suddenly began to spray. irrational blood.†   (source)
  • Less than a week after they returned, Jonah was released from school for Christmas break, and she'd used the time to make special excursions with him: She'd taken him ice-skating at Rockefeller Center and brought him to the top of the Empire State Building; they'd visited the dinosaur exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, and she'd even spent most of one afternoon at FAO Schwarz.†   (source)
  • I am confident that these excursions can be easily explained by the importing of barrels of oil to those wharfs-as this happens at all hours, night and day.†   (source)
  • The shard had indeed counseled him to use the humans he would soon command in the first excursion into the region.†   (source)
  • 'I'm upset with the fools who told me it was a three-hour excursion when it turns out to be five hours!†   (source)
  • Later today, he tells them, the top woman fund-raiser will be honored with a queen-for-a-day ceremony, where she'll get a plastic crown and bouquet of roses, toiletries and perfumes, and a free, four-day, round trip excursion to Powerfest, a convention of Pentecostal ministries that will be held a few weeks from now in Virginia.†   (source)
  • Pedro Tercero had to give up his excursions into town because his father needed him to help in the work.†   (source)
  • I opened up my door and was out, dropping to the ground-it was unbelievable how high up the Excursion was-before I even really knew what I was doing.†   (source)
  • I explained about our excursion to Randolph's, and the photo and wedding invitation that were now in my backpack.†   (source)
  • Painted on the prow was HARALD'S DEEP-SEA EXCURSIONS AND DEATH WISHES, which seemed like a lot of verbiage for a twenty-foot-long dinghy.†   (source)
  • Nathan and Savannah were at school, and Kelley was about to head out on a shopping excursion to put together a Thanksgiving care package for Adam when he called, a rarity—generally they e-mailed every few days.†   (source)
  • 'was how Dante drew attention to the humility of the miniaturists, who tried in the simplest, densest strokes to convey the essence of what they saw, and were not interested in discursive interpolations, conceits, or dazzling excursions that proved them to their fellowsalthough they had to do some of this simply to arouse their patrons.†   (source)
  • How many times in the last twenty-four hours had they run out on such excursions, only, in panic, to cease activity because the merest jolt, the slightest breath, threatened to shake old ancient Cooger down to mealmush and chaff?†   (source)
  • I ran for miles and miles on country lanes, learned how to carry a dozen pints of beer up steep stairs, indulged in numerous romantic peccadilloes with appetizing girls and boys, and journeyed to Provincetown for midweek beach excursions on my days off throughout the summer and fall.†   (source)
  • From a host of small details imperceptible to others, Jean learned to guess when she was planning one of her nocturnal excursions to the river.†   (source)
  • I was happy for the excursion, but disgruntled with the dress code and expecting a boring evening with yet another turban man.†   (source)
  • BY MIDMORNING, when we return from our first Bungalow–to– Casualty–to–Women's Ward–to–Front Gate excursion, with Koochooloo as our bodyguard, the kitchen is alive.†   (source)
  • I knew of no other woman Iranian, American, or otherwise who risked the vicissitudes of regular excursions into Tehran without the protection of a man or at least another adult woman companion.†   (source)
  • Birmingham, where they stopped at the Swann Inn, was the most distant point of the excursion, and the famous nearby farm known as Leasowes, once the home of the poet William Shenstone, was for Jefferson the most anticipated stop of the entire journey.†   (source)
  • It used to be our only excursion.†   (source)
  • It was another excursion into the dark.†   (source)
  • And brimming the swell were things carried by the river: grandfather clocks chiming, kitchen clocks ticking, caged hens screaming, babies wailing; and swimming among the thickened eddies were mules and cats, and sudden excursions of burst mattress springs floating by, insane hair stuffing sticking out, and boxes and crates and pictures of dark grandfathers in oak frames-- the river flowing it on while the men sat like nervous hounds on the hardware porch, too late to mend the levee,…†   (source)
  • Much preoccupied with our coming trip south, and plainly looking forward to the wedding day, he went into a kind of prothalamic fit, taking Sophie through a weekend buying spree (including a special excursion to Manhattan, where they spent two hours at Saks Fifth Avenue) during which she wound up with a huge sapphire engagement ring, a trousseau fit for a Hollywood princess, and a wildly expensive travel wardrobe calculated to knock the eyes out of the natives of such backwater centers…†   (source)
  • "The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy," said Doc.†   (source)
  • Which, in a way, was what this was for me, though I only had an excursion ticket, a visitor's visa, and I had to go back within six weeks.†   (source)
  • I was mystified until at a later time this same summer I ran across by chance a railway timetable with ferry-boat schedules and hours for band concerts, and excursion prices from Halifax, for a given week in August, 1903.†   (source)
  • The bright porch across the dark was like a boat on the river to me; an excursion boat I wasn't going on.†   (source)
  • So much of the rest of what I wrote was made up of callow musings, pseudo-gnomic pretentiousness, silly excursions into philosophical seminars where I had no business horning in, that I decisively cut off any chance of their perpetuation, by consigning them, a few years ago, to a spectacular backyard auto-da-fe.†   (source)
  • Along with the ferry timetable and the schedule of excursions and the souvenir book of the Thousand Islands, I came across a sizeable commercial photograph taken of my father.†   (source)
  • It was music that, among other things, spoke of a Europe of a halcyon time, bathed in the soft umber glow of serene twilights—of children in pigtails and pinafores bobbing along in dogcarts, of excursions in the glades of the Wiener Wald and strong Bavarian beer, of ladies from Grenoble with parasols strolling the glittering rims of glaciers in the high Alps, and balloon voyages, of gaiety, of vertiginous waltzes, of Moselle wine, of Johannes Brahms himself, with beard and black cigar,…†   (source)
  • The next morning, Joel was given a notice to paste on the saloon mirror that conveyances might be rented at the Inn daily for the excursion to Washington for the trial of Mr. Burr, payment to be made in advance.†   (source)
  • Their descriptions had been exact, complete, and wildly varying, and he took them for inventions and believed that like all the worldly things that came out of Natchez, they would be disposed of and shamed by any man's excursion into the reality of Nature.†   (source)
  • Thus it was at her bedside when I was twelve or thirteen that I heard firsthand about Drusilla and Lucinda, and camp meetings, and turkey shoots, and sewing bees, and river-boat excursions down the Pamlico, and other ante-bellum joys, the sweet chirpy old voice feeble yet unflagging, until at last it gave out and the gentle lady went to sleep.†   (source)
  • "I believe there must be something wrong with me, that I came on this excursion to begin with," she said, as if he had already said this and she were merely in hopeful, willing, maddening agreement with him.†   (source)
  • Every time the lady in the raincoat walked out over their feet-she immediately, after her cigarette, made several excursions-she would fling them a look.†   (source)
  • Eliza sometimes allowed them to take him on excursions.†   (source)
  • So it was a proper assignment for me, an excursion into the past.†   (source)
  • "Two Christmases"—those bleak, annual excursions into propriety.†   (source)
  • And so the gilded and dallying part of the excursion ended in Texarkana.†   (source)
  • Besides, if it rains badly, the excursion doesn't take place.'†   (source)
  • But I must tell about the first excursion into the enchantments of the past.†   (source)
  • They had told her how she might possibly win fifty strips and have a grand day on the excursion.†   (source)
  • In fact, this second excursion into the past was to be perfectly successful.†   (source)
  • This brings us to the final crisis of the round, to which the whole miraculous excursion has been but a prelude—that, namely, of the paradoxical, supremely difficult threshold-crossing of the hero's return from the mystic realm into the land of common day.†   (source)
  • Mallinson, after the first novelty had worn off, found himself no less fatigued than on many sight-seeing excursions at lower altitudes; the lamas, he feared, were not likely to be his heroes.†   (source)
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