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  • One of our favorites was to ride the streetcars that traversed the city.†   (source)
  • They would have to traverse the length of the cathedral, passing three other chapels, each of them, like the Chigi Chapel, covered with translucent plastic shrouds.†   (source)
  • Four stories up, the Austrians clap another shell into the smoking breech of the 88 and double-check the traverse and clamp their ears as the gun discharges, but down here Werner hears only the radio voices of his childhood.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream.†   (source)
  • The most effective means of sending and retrieving sensitive Alyssian intelligence had been to use portal runners to traverse the Crystal Continuum.†   (source)
  • They have pressure seals, allowing the occupants to drive without space suits during long periods traversing the surface.†   (source)
  • She opens to the first page: Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place ….†   (source)
  • He took these risks early in the morning or late at night, when the wild pheasants that had once been plentiful still traversed the road and his headlights would catch the hollow glowing of their eye sockets as they skittered from one side of the road to the other.†   (source)
  • Lousy Lane traverses the Grim River, a body of water that is nine-tenths mud and that contains extremely unnerving fish, and it encircles a horseradish factory, so the entire area smells bitter and strong.†   (source)
  • There were little cliffs to be scaled, some to be used as paths, lengthy traverses where one used hands as well as feet.†   (source)
  • "We are now traversing the night side …" he said in a hushed voice.†   (source)
  • To follow Enrique's journey, I traversed thirteen of Mexico's thirty-one states.†   (source)
  • Territory he had soared over effortlessly on a dragon's back now took him months to traverse.†   (source)
  • I had traversed the skies over Atlanticus and Pacificus and never had I seen such creatures.†   (source)
  • The wind is cool and goose bumps traverse the length of Sam's arms.†   (source)
  • And the morning was filled with long boat races and a series of terrible workouts in the demo pits-that's a scum-laden sea-water slime, which we had to traverse on a couple of ropes, invariably falling straight in.†   (source)
  • He wanted the lagoons and canals strewn with waterfowl of all kinds and colors and traversed continually by small boats.†   (source)
  • The Mississippi becomes of central symbolic importance for Crane because of its immense length, bringing the northernmost and southernmost parts of the nation together while making it virtually impossible to move from east to west without some means of traversing the river.†   (source)
  • Its underground reservoirs hold millions of gallons of water; workers sometimes traverse them in rowboats.†   (source)
  • But Chente managed to avoid gang involvement, went to school, worked in industry, helped his father with his trucking business and pretty much took care of his mom, six sisters and a brother while his dad traversed the land in a tractor-trailer rig.†   (source)
  • They sent me down narrow corridors for measuring and weighing, for blood-testing, brain-graphing, the recording of currents traversing my heart.†   (source)
  • Buffeting gusts of wind, which had initially slowed him, now shortened the time it took to traverse the mini glacier that was thickening beneath his feet.†   (source)
  • It doesn't take long anymore to traverse the first part of the Hill; everything is tamped down and well marked and we know where we are going, at least initially.†   (source)
  • Every so often a beam of light appeared out of thin air, traversed the wall like a ghostly, exploratory finger, and slid off into nothing again.†   (source)
  • But when he was gone she heard the demolition blows of distant artillery, the unmaking of buildings, large-scale fighting having resumed somewhere, and she was worried for him on his drive home, and she thought it an absurd situation that she would have to wait until she went to work the following day to discover whether he had traversed the distance to his home safely.†   (source)
  • Mornings as the streetcar traversed my ghetto I experienced a mixture of dread and trauma.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, he traversed the world for opposition.†   (source)
  • He traversed the great courtyard and started up the steps of his building; and behind him, near the porte-cochere, the bell of the concierge's loge sounded, and she called his name.†   (source)
  • Between Bechuanaland and the northwestern Transvaal, dozens of unmarked roads traverse the border, and Cecil knew just which ones to take.†   (source)
  • In this manner I traverse five sleepers.†   (source)
  • After they'd showered and gone to bed, Alex would sit with Katie on the small dock out back, their legs dangling over the water, while the moon slowly traversed the sky.†   (source)
  • The road was once a dirt track that wandered through the heart of Africa, almost impossible to traverse along its complete length.†   (source)
  • In Atlanta, one could traverse gaping boundaries of race and class by simply crossing a street.†   (source)
  • There was nothing along the road save the country it traversed and there was nothing in the country at all.†   (source)
  • After traversing what seemed to be an endless gravel road, we turned into a driveway that led off into the distance.†   (source)
  • I waited while you traversed the edge of the ravine in your walk to the bridge.†   (source)
  • Carried to its extreme, the idea gives license to the belief that one's own actions do not matter much; we traverse the world in our own bubbles, occasionally breaking through to one another but largely and ultimately alone.†   (source)
  • They'd traversed about half of what they could see of its length when Mark heard voices, then saw their source.†   (source)
  • In nearly a week of traversing a vast stretch of this war-torn country, the only foreign presence he encountered was two Catholic missions.†   (source)
  • Those who carried Adam traversed the slope, attempting to distance themselves from the line of fire, only to enter a different line of fire.†   (source)
  • When Murphy plodded along the south bank of the Indus on horseback, she meditated on the horror of traversing this glorified goat path in a motor vehicle.†   (source)
  • His eyes took in the Slow Mutants only as they passed, not traversing, not seeing more than they had to.†   (source)
  • Flocks of birds, flying at great speed, were wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if they were searching for something; and they were steadily drawing nearer.†   (source)
  • The crew was experienced, and it was obvious they had traversed this passage before.†   (source)
  • On the floor is a deep blue Indian rug with a complex border of multicolored designs and a ribbon of rectangles and roads that can be traversed like a maze by Stephen's toy train.†   (source)
  • I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship.†   (source)
  • It looked just like the ground they had already traversed.†   (source)
  • It made Cesar think of another bridge and another time-this one was a few miles upriver; and the last time he traversed it, he was on foot trailing a group of twelve-year-old baseball players.†   (source)
  • Dreading her long trip home, with "so many horrid rivers to cross and such roads to traverse," Abigail put off her departure until after February i 1.†   (source)
  • He had been born a Peakrill lad in a village near to Kinder Scout but had been sent off to Plymouth to take up tailoring, and in that port town had seen silk traders who traversed the Orient and had befriended lace makers even from among our enemies the Dutch.†   (source)
  • They led the horses out of the yard and into the top meadow and there they mounted up and rode in a slow, climbing traverse toward the gate that led into the woods.†   (source)
  • Lourdes and her father traversed the island in his automobile, big and black as a Sunday-night church.†   (source)
  • It was miles and miles, and it would take me days to traverse, but once I stepped off this wash I was officially adrift.†   (source)
  • It was ten minutes of brisk, silent walking until they'd traversed the orchards and wound around the stables and Smithy to reach the stone wall that separated Old College (as the original campus was now known) from Rowan's Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • The next morning when the nurse at the infirmary brought him his breakfast, she found Poteete hanging from one of the heating pipesthat traversed the ceiling of his room.†   (source)
  • She starts in the corner and writes steadily across, my name and my name traversing everything else.†   (source)
  • Here they would go off the road and traverse a set of rounded peaks that overlooked Sant' Angelo and, farther beyond, Monte Prato.†   (source)
  • A creek that flowed year-round traversed the rest of the land, meandering across Aunt Myrtle's four hundred acres and providing ample water for our stock.†   (source)
  • Uh…. two corrections: it must not be headed toward the Earth itself but at some part of the sky hemisphere, and it must have enough added velocity to punch through whatever atmosphere it still traverses.†   (source)
  • Below ground level, cobblestoned alleyways that' are in most cases tunnels traverse beneath the ramshackle structures.†   (source)
  • My own reaction was not so dramatic, although I may very well have set some sort of a record for a cross-country traverse myself.†   (source)
  • Diocletian Blobb had chosen to traverse a stretch of desolate mountain country in a mail coach belonging to the "Torre and Tassis" system, which Oedipa figured must be Italian for Thurn and Taxis.†   (source)
  • That day as she traversed the edge of the gardens on her way toward the library she caught a glimpse of something which thereafter dwelled so immovably in her mind that she wondered if it, too, was not at last bound up in a mystical way with Nathan, and the imminence of his appearance in her life.†   (source)
  • In some town or city somewhere their wives and children live while the husbands traverse the nation carrying every kind of food and product and machine.†   (source)
  • Soon they were again on their way, traversing the upper slopes of the gently-sloping valley.†   (source)
  • It is possible once again to traverse the country from one end to the other—something the colonial power thought it alone had brought about.†   (source)
  • The ceilings were high, traversed by ten-by-ten oak beams.†   (source)
  • And you traversed the stunted, beggared, Denuded, quaking scrubwood of the alders And entered the cemetery coppice Of flaring red and ornate as a ginger bunny.†   (source)
  • She looked outward with the sense of rightful space and time within her, which must be traversed before she could be known at all.†   (source)
  • A hundred miles, and only one day to traverse them!   (source)
  • The difficulty was, how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World.   (source)
  • The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to remain four hours at Steamer Point to coal up.   (source)
  • Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been about twelve thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of which he had, on the 23rd of November, accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred.   (source)
  • Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning, and three hundred and fifty-seven miles had yet to be traversed before reaching Omaha.   (source)
    traversed = traveled across
  • If the wind held good, the distance might be traversed in five hours; if no accident happened the sledge might reach Omaha by one o'clock.   (source)
  • On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe.   (source)
  • It traversed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like a flash, rushing through towns with antique names, some of which had streets and car-tracks, but as yet no houses.   (source)
  • The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades.   (source)
  • Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg—at least, so he hoped—to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool.   (source)
  • After having steadily traversed that long journey, overcome a hundred obstacles, braved many dangers, and still found time to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by a sudden event which he could not have foreseen, and against which he was unarmed; it was terrible!   (source)
  • But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.   (source)
    traversing = traveling across
  • Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.   (source)
    traversed = traveled across
  • Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.   (source)
    traverses = travels across
  • Small cuts traverse the length of both arms.†   (source)
  • But traversing thirty-two hundred kilometers to Ares 4 is incredibly dangerous.†   (source)
  • "Passengers usually don't traverse it, miss," I said.†   (source)
  • We would have to traverse most of the Empire, avoiding every town and village.†   (source)
  • Now, traversing this glorious field, the boy came across a pile of fieldstones.†   (source)
  • She turns right, then left, traverses half a block and steps neatly through the open door of a shop.†   (source)
  • A ghastly number of scars traverse his torso.†   (source)
  • To retrace Enrique's steps, I traversed thirteen of Mexico's thirty-one states.†   (source)
  • And how much of the actual sky have you traversed?†   (source)
  • The rover was made for traversing extremely rugged terrain, often at steep angles.†   (source)
  • His eyes are full of concern, and creases of worry traverse the length of his forehead.†   (source)
  • He traverses the cellar until he finds Volkheimer in the gold armchair.†   (source)
  • Large, raised veins traverse the length of each arm.†   (source)
  • Seven corridors, including the one they had just traversed, stretched out from the archways.†   (source)
  • The next day, I traversed the road from Haven to Kimmel, my skin on fire.†   (source)
  • A ripple traversed Roran's side as the magic knit his skin and muscle back together again.†   (source)
  • It would be difficult to traverse the whole stretch all at once, but we could do it.†   (source)
  • He traversed a subcontinent in blue suede shoes.†   (source)
  • Eragon and his friends traverse almost four hundred miles in eight days.†   (source)
  • Rafi's traverse seemed to take all the time in the world.†   (source)
  • The traverse that leads to him is the hardest section of the route.†   (source)
  • As they traversed the pockmarked land, Eragon kept glancing at Roran out of the corner of his eye.†   (source)
  • There are only three ways of traversing it, and each of them is difficult.†   (source)
  • Only one car could traverse the road at a time.†   (source)
  • The children traversed them slowly: ants on a gargantuan tableau.†   (source)
  • The worst part was the climbing traverse over loose shale up to the cave.†   (source)
  • C#35 CHAPTER 35 The wooden stairs descending to the Capitol's subbasement were as steep and shallow as any stairs Langdon had ever traversed.†   (source)
  • Moving slowly but steadily, I made a rising leftward traverse across the top of the Lhotse Face, then ascended a prow of shattered black schist called the Geneva Spur.†   (source)
  • He could see the path outlined against the mountainside ahead of them, but first they would have to traverse a large rock and boulder field.†   (source)
  • After a brief interlude the family was picked up again by a second camera, traversing a hallway and pushing the horizontal bars that secured a heavy set of double fire-resistant doors, and as these doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterior surveillance feeds, tiny…†   (source)
  • Royal empires have been built, unexplored lands have been traversed, great religions and philosophies have been forever changed by the spice trade.†   (source)
  • She, who had never been more than fifty miles from her birthplace, learned to traverse the maze of Spanish-named streets in that enigma that is Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • Tim Madsen, descending with Beidleman's group, happened to glance up from the Balcony around 5:20 and saw Fischer as he began the traverse.†   (source)
  • His gaze traveled into the darkness of the night, traversing more than a mile of empty space, dropping lower …. lower …. through the darkness …. until it came to rest atop the brilliantly illuminated, stark white dome of the U.S. Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • Thus, on his way to completing the twenty-yard dash, Achilles must traverse an infinite number of lengths— which, by definition, would take an infinite amount of time.†   (source)
  • Roman points out a message he wrote when he stayed in the bus four years ago, during a traverse of the Alaska Range:NOODLE EATERS EN ROUTE TO LAKE CLARK 8/89.†   (source)
  • They were traversing the ridges west of the kennel, ridges he and Almondine had gazed over countless times as they sat on the hill in the south field.†   (source)
  • Taking the steps one at a time (as had been his habit since 1952), he ascended to the fourth floor, traversed the hallway, and stopped before the twenty-eighth door.†   (source)
  • A couple of weeks after Enrique disappears, his paternal grandmother, Maraa, traverses Tegucigalpa to talk to Enrique's relatives and Maraa Isabel.†   (source)
  • Standing atop the tower anchoring the eastern end of the span, I attach myself to the cable with rock-climbing hardware and begin to pull myself across, hand over hand, executing what mountaineers call a Tyrolean traverse.†   (source)
  • Eragon noticed how the land flattened in the distance, and he groaned at the leagues they still had to traverse.†   (source)
  • This was easier than following the fixed lines, but once he was below the level of the rock steps it meant that he had to make a laborious 330-foot rising traverse through knee-deep snow to regain the route.†   (source)
  • He was retracing his route, walking down a street he'd traversed twice before, when he finally saw the sign, small and yellow and mounted high on the corner of a bar.†   (source)
  • —Young Latino participant in the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, as quoted in USA Today, May 1, 1992 This book is a gift to my son Ramiro, to all my children, who will traverse a more severe and uncertain path to maturity than I had to undertake.†   (source)
  • After descending one flight in the belfry and traversing the hall to the main stair, he would continue his journey down five flights to the subfloor, where, having passed the flower shop and newsstand, he would enter the barbershop only to discover—Sofia reading quietly on the bench by the wall.†   (source)
  • If he was over Mongolia, I would travel to the west; if he was crossing the Atlanticus, I would go east; if he was traversing Antarctica, my thoughts would sail to the south to be with him as he glided over the great polar ice caps.†   (source)
  • They returned through the corridor they had traversed the night before, passing the statue of the quilled animal.†   (source)
  • Starting my traverse across the hull.†   (source)
  • It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika's western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap.†   (source)
  • These days Roman teaches at Alaska Pacific University, in Anchorage, and enjoys statewide renown for a long, brash string of backcountry escapades: He has, among other feats, traveled the entire 1,000-mile length of the Brooks Range by foot and paddle, skied 250 miles across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in subzero winter cold, traversed the 700-mile crest of the Alaska Range, and pioneered more than thirty first ascents of northern peaks and crags.†   (source)
  • If we made the heat shield and outer hull detachable, they could ditch a lot of weight after landing at Ares 3, and have a lighter ship for the traverse to Ares 4.†   (source)
  • The solar cells and extra battery stayed beautifully in place while traversing eight kilometers of random terrain.†   (source)
  • It had taken them two days to traverse the subterranean passage from Farthen Dur, though it felt longer to Eragon, due to the never-ending dusk that surrounded them and the silence it had imposed upon their group.†   (source)
  • Max thought it would take quite a determined roll to traverse the twenty feet of flat, manicured lawn.†   (source)
  • Max learned that the Sanctuary extended farther back than he'd ever imagined and that a narrow gorge traversed the low range of snow-capped mountains that he'd always believed to be the Sanctuary's limits.†   (source)
  • He had searched from the sea cliffs to the Sanctuary wall, traversing every wood and field in the stretch along the southern borders of the Old College.†   (source)
  • Well, there's an entire city block to traverse after that, but if I hoof it I bet I can catch the last few acts.†   (source)
  • Four times a day, for two weeks now, Annie had traversed this reptilian gaze as she drove to and from the Double Divide.†   (source)
  • When they dropped from view beyond a ridge I had only to sprint after them, with no danger of being seen, until I reached another elevated position from which I could watch them traverse the succeeding valley.†   (source)
  • After a couple of hours spent negotiating cliffs, traversing avalanche paths, and fording rivers and streams, the Afghans—renowned for being both hearty and nimble in their mountainous element—could not keep up the pace.†   (source)
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo, Paula's homeland, occupies territory deep in the heart of Africa that remained mostly beyond the reach of Western powers until the 1870s, when the Welsh-born explorer Henry Morton Stanley became the first Westerner to successfully traverse Central Africa and returned to a hero's welcome in Europe.†   (source)
  • The sandbar below them was thickly grown with willow and carrizo cane and the bluffs on the far side were stained and cavepocked and traversed by a constant myriad of swallows.†   (source)
  • I expect that without having to hide from soldiers or peasants you can traverse many more leagues each day on the way to Farthen Dur than you were able to in the Empire.†   (source)
  • Climbing the winding stairs, he continued to traverse many long hallways until he approached the Bacon Library.†   (source)
  • But the hunting party had this high traverse to themselves, except for the occasional tracks of the snow leopard Twaha pointed out excitedly, and two mournful lammergeiers, vultures that circled curiously on a thermal high above the hunters.†   (source)
  • Rather than retreating, they traversed across K2 at twenty-five thousand feet to the traditional route most climbers had tried, the Abruzzi Ridge, and, remarkably, made it to the top.†   (source)
  • But the palette was not all gray and ocher, for periodically Max traversed vast carpets of knee-high blue flowers that stretched across the landscape like a Van Gogh.†   (source)
  • She can run in them if she has to, jump curbs, traverse the buckled, faulted sidewalks of Brooklyn without twisting an ankle.†   (source)
  • Paula took her children out of Kinshasa and headed east, traveling by bus to Rwanda and eventually traversing Lake Tanganyika to Tanzania and, later, Zambia.†   (source)
  • Saphira flew at as lofty an altitude as Eragon could endure because it was easier for her to traverse long distances in the rarefied upper atmosphere than in the thick, moist air near the ground.†   (source)
  • The trees he'd seen from the distance were the breaks of a dry rivercourse and he pushed the horses through the brush and entered a stand of cottonwoods and turned the horse and sat watching back across the plain they'd traversed.†   (source)
  • The country they traversed was advanced in season and the acacia was in bloom and there had been rain in the mountains and the grass along the selvedge of the draws was green and blowsy in the long twilight where they rode.†   (source)
  • While the two dragons danced among the clouds, Oromis taught Eragon how a magician could transport an object from one place to another without having the object traverse the intervening distance.†   (source)
  • Though they were late, was theDragon Wing, with its oars and sails combined, fast enough to traverse the Eye?†   (source)
  • The line of bolts and ledges that they had used for their retreat was twenty meters ahead on the traverse.†   (source)
  • The Nuba region traversed a fault line between African and Arab culture, prompting Yusif Kuwa, the late rebel leader of the Nuba, to declare his people "prisoners of geography."†   (source)
  • Visible in the shadows was the familiar crack that rose almost a thousand meters, and by the light of the receding flares Alessandro followed it to the high traverse that he knew, and then to the ledge beyond, where the wounded climber was now in his second night, if he was still alive.†   (source)
  • Prince, for example, a cat-quick Liberian and one of the team's best returning players, had spent the summer cultivating a crown of perfectly proportioned braids that traversed his head and dangled down the back of his neck in the style of Allen Iverson, the NBA point guard.†   (source)
  • While a dragon may traverse the leagues between Aberon and Ellesmera with the speed of a falcon, it would be impossible for the elves to marshal themselves and cross that same distance before the Empire reaches us.†   (source)
  • Saphira flew as fast as any hawk or falcon Nasuada had seen, but she was still a number of miles away from the camp, and it took her almost ten minutes to traverse the remaining distance.†   (source)
  • A crushing fatigue overcame Eragon, reducing the distance he was able to traverse in a single stretch and making it increasingly difficult for him to recuperate during the pauses between his bursts of exertion.†   (source)
  • Farica rejoined her in the stairwell, and together they traversed the warren of passageways to Nasuada's chambers.†   (source)
  • She flew nonstop until the sun had traversed the dome of the sky and extinguished itself behind the horizon and then burst forth again with a glorious conflagration of reds and yellows.†   (source)
  • From the western flank of the battle, where she alighted, Saphira traversed the Burning Plains in a few giant leaps, stopping before Hrothgar and his dwarves.†   (source)
  • The bark beneath his feet was smooth and flat from the many elves who had traversed it, but it was still part of the trunk, as were the twisting cobweb banisters by his side and the curved railing that slid under his right hand.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, he traversed the hundred or so feet that separated the rain barrel from the slope of the rampart and dashed up the embankment so fast, he felt as if he were a stone skipping across water.†   (source)
  • They require proper instruction, and I cannot judge your performance when you are surrounded by a group of people who are so loyal that at your urging they abandoned their homes and traversed the width of Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • The only way to reach it was to descend the bluff farther upstream to the field edging the creek, then make a climbing traverse of the shale bank where it was somewhat less steep just upstream of the cave.†   (source)
  • The odds wouldn't improve; I kicked my feet clear, hung by one hand and drew sword during that too-slow traverse, and dropped off anyway.†   (source)
  • I do not know which image at this moment, each appearing almost simultaneously at the rim of my consciousness, gave me the chill that traversed the length of my spinal column: that of black monstrous Callihan or of Morris Fink's fearful golem.†   (source)
  • It made a real effort to light up again while I was traversing rapidly, trying to keep that squealing baby dragon between me and the big one, and it behaved like an almost dry Ronson; the flame flickered and caught, shot out a pitiful six feet and went out.†   (source)
  • By midday they were traversing a rocky barren terrain, its only trees the drooping mugga-woods, its only flowers the everlasting daisies: the flowers that never die; that live on, even after their petals, leaves, stalks, and roots have crumbled and withered away.†   (source)
  • It was just a sprained ankle but it caused her to crawl up the traverse on her hands, and progress to that point had been slow and painful.†   (source)
  • We traversed a wide plain and then slowly climbed into the mountains.†   (source)
  • I am obliged, very briefly, to go over the ground traversed by the last speaker.†   (source)
  • The devil—but it was cold in this world we traversed!†   (source)
  • Conway smiled, but did not reply; he was already preparing the rope for the knife-edge traverse.†   (source)
  • In his sweatstained overalls he would traverse the late twilight of May and enter the kitchen.†   (source)
  • I have been traversing the sunless territory of non-identity.†   (source)
  • Night opens; night traversed by wandering moths; night hiding lovers roaming to adventure.†   (source)
  • And from there on, M. Bouc's thoughts went along a well-worn course which they had already traversed some hundred times.†   (source)
  • Their quivering mackerel sparkling was darkened; they massed themselves; their green hollows deepened and darkened and might be traversed by shoals of wandering fish.†   (source)
  • In the second, the same army traverses a palace where a great festival is taking place; the resplendent battle seems to them a continuation of the celebration and they win the victory.†   (source)
  • …as souvenirs, filling a brown tow sack with them and walking, with the bag hung from his shoulders, down the interminable aisles of the Royal Poinciana or the Breakers, target of scorn, and scandal, and amusement from slave and prince; or traversed the spacious palmcool walks that cut the peninsula, to see, sprawled in the sensual loose sand the ladies' silken legs, the brown lean bodies of the men, the long seaplunges in the unending scroll-work of the emerald and infinite sea,…†   (source)
  • At another time, they were traversing a great plain, and were famished for water and almost spent; a young horseman overtook them and gave them three ripe pomegranates, then galloped away.†   (source)
  • The track consisted of a traverse cut along the flank of a rock wall whose height above them the mist obscured.†   (source)
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