All 23 Uses of
excursion
in
The Swiss Family Robinson
- It is well the lobster is so large, for we shall want to take part with us on our excursion to-day.'†
Chpt 2
- At the mention of an excursion, the four children were wild with delight, and, capering around me, clapped their hands for joy.
Chpt 2 *excursion = a short journey
- This needful work we set about, therefore, at once, proposing afterwards an excursion to the Calabash Wood, in order to manufacture a large supply of vessels and utensils of all sorts and sizes.†
Chpt 6
- My wife and Franz were to be of the party, and their equipment took some time, for we meant to make a grand family excursion attended by our domestic pets and servants!†
Chpt 6
- Soon after making this discovery, we reached the cocoanut wood, and saw the bay extending before us, and the great promontory we called Cape Disappointment, which hitherto had always bounded our excursions.†
Chpt 7
- Fritz and I made an excursion thither.†
Chpt 9
- We then made preparations for an excursion the following day, for I wished to establish a sort of semicivilized farm at some distance from Falconhurst, where we might place some of our animals which had become too numerous with our limited means to supply them with food.†
Chpt 9
- During their absence, Ernest and I made a short excursion in the neighbourhood, that we might know more exactly the character of the country near our farm.†
Chpt 9
- Examining it with the telescope, I could form no other conjecture, and we resolved to make it the object of an excursion next day, being delighted to resume our old habit of starting in pursuit of adventure.†
Chpt 10
- I projected then two excursions, the first to make a thorough examination of the thicket and morass; the next right away to the Gap, through which alone the archenemy could have entered our territory.†
Chpt 12
- We went back to the house, and met Fritz and Jack just returned from their excursion, reporting that no trace of serpents, great or small, had been met with.†
Chpt 12
- One day we made an excursion to the farm at Prospect Hill, and were grievously provoked to find that the vagabond apes had been there, and wrought terrible mischief, as before at Woodlands.†
Chpt 12
- We pitched the tent, and then occupied ourselves with preparations for the next day, when it was my intention to penetrate the country beyond the defile, and make a longer excursion across the savannah, than had yet been undertaken.†
Chpt 12
- The four boys at length became so weary of inaction, that I determined to let them make an excursion alone on the savannah.†
Chpt 12
- But I wished to make yet another excursion, and at early dawn I aroused the boys.†
Chpt 13
- The rainy season having set in, we were compelled to give up our daily excursions.†
Chpt 14
- I was pleased to find that the various birds taken by the boys during this excursion seemed likely to thrive; they were the first inmates of the new sheds, and even the black swans and cranes soon became tame and sociable.†
Chpt 15
- Fritz brought one day, after an excursion to the opposite side of the stream beyond the Gap, a cluster of bananas, and also of cacao-beans, from which chocolate is made.†
Chpt 15
- An excursion to Pearl Bay was now the event to which all thoughts turned, and for which preparations on a grand scale were made.†
Chpt 16
- I shall, therefore, henceforth leave him at liberty to act in all respects according to his own judgement; and, especially in the matter of voyages or excursions, he must not be hampered by the fear of alarming us should he choose to remain absent longer than we expect.†
Chpt 16
- The last day of our fishery we started earlier, intending to make a longer excursion into the woods.†
Chpt 16
- The albatross, she told me, she had kept for some time and partially tamed; but, as it was in the habit of making long excursions on its own account, she conceived the idea of sending it also with a message, that, should it by chance be seen and taken alive, it might return with an answer.†
Chpt 17
- When the repairs were all finished we remained yet a day or two longer, that we might make excursions in various directions to bring in poultry from Woodlands, stores of acorns for the pigs, and grass, willows and canes, to be manufactured during the winter into mats, baskets, hurdles and hen-coops.†
Chpt 17
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