EXCURSION in THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

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Definition

a short journey taken for pleasure

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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excursion used in The Hound of the Baskervilles