Both Uses of
excursion
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- They had no idea that I knew of the doctor's three excursions to New York in search of me; that I had heard his voice, when he came to borrow five hundred dollars for that purpose; and that I had seen him pass on his way to the steamboat.†
Chpt 34
- I supposed they had not come from the south, in the winter, for a pleasure excursion; and now the nature of their business was very plain.†
Chpt 41 *
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