3 uses
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Definition
a short journey taken for pleasure
or:
a digression from the main path of a journey
or:
a digression from the main path of a journey
- Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.Chapter 7 — The Stapletons of Merripit House (12% in)
- It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson (31% in)
- Such an excursion could not be kept secret.Chapter 11 — The Man on the Tor (39% in)
There are no more uses of "excursion" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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