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travel across
- They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the wails.1.6 — The Shoemaker (85% in)
- For the rest, the Old Bailey was famous as a kind of deadly inn-yard, from which pale travellers set out continually, in carts and coaches, on a violent passage into the other world: traversing some two miles and a half of public street and road, and shaming few good citizens, if any.2.2 — A Sight (24% in)
- Occasionally, a stray workman putting his coat on, traversed the hall, or a stranger peered about there, or a distant clink was heard across the courtyard, or a thump from the golden giant.2.6 — Hundreds of People (12% in)
- In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the miredeep leagues that lay between them and the capital.3.1 — In Secret (17% in)
- Then, traversing with the decided step of one who remembered the way well, several dark and dirty streets—much dirtier than usual, for the best public thoroughfares remained uncleansed in those times of terror—he stopped at a chemist's shop, which the owner was closing with his own hands.3.9 — The Game Made (53% in)
- At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier—I did not estimate the distance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it—it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.3.10 — The Substance of the Shadow (13% in)
- Whether he had really been to any one, or whether he had been all that time traversing the streets, was never known.3.12 — Darkness (53% in)
There are no more uses of "traverse" in A Tale of Two Cities.
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