19 Metaphors for excursions

These large and elegant boats are so well arranged that every excursion may be a party of pleasure.

When he married he chartered a large steamer and brass band, took on board a crowd of guests, champagne flowed like water, every luxury was furnished liberally, and the excursion was a prolonged debauch.

These excursions were temptings of Providence, games of hazard.

These excursions were a great delight to the villagers, who thus enjoyed all the pleasures and excitements of a circus with none of its attendant expenses.

I confess that the "Excursion" is the worst poem, of any character, in the English language.

The Excursion (1814) is the second book of The Recluse; and the third was never completed, though Wordsworth intended to include most of his shorter poems in this third part, and so make an immense personal epic of a poet's life and work.

These excursions into the sane and free world were not only a great pleasure, they were almost a tonic.

Rejoining my bride, I said "I have had no opportunity of seeing much of this country, and I fancy from what I have seen of feminine seclusion that an excursion would be as much a holiday treat to you as to myself.

The excursion was an opportunity for friendly business talk, and when lunch was over Ruth and Lister went out on the lawn in front of the hotel.

Cary remarked that he was rather busy, and that these river excursions, though doubtless great fun for Dawson, were rather poor sport for himself.

In fact, with all the resources at Burke's command, a favourable season and good open country, the excursion would have been a mere picnic to most men of experience.

At that period even an excursion of one thousand miles was a serious affair, and attended with great discomfort.

All the same Mr. SETON has so often delighted me by his tales of the animal world that I hope this excursion is merely a holiday from the work for which he has a real genius.

The excursion must remain a "hope deferred" for the present, as we had again to thread the maze of half-submerged melon plots and miniature kitchen gardens which, even in the golden glow of a perfect evening, could not be made to fit in with our preconceived ideas of "floating gardens."

My father will tell you how deeply I regret that our recent botanical excursions in the Carquinez Woods have been a source of serious misapprehension to those who had a claim to my consideration, and that I shall be obliged to discontinue them for the future.

The frequent excursions of our shooting parties being more extended than during our last visit became the means of adding considerably to our knowledge of the surrounding country.

The Chief Excursions are: La Salanque, the whole day, by carriage via St. Laurent de la Salanque; Torreilles;

The Chief Excursions are: Prats de Mollo (2618 ft.), 12 1/2 miles by mule path15 by road; carriage (23 francs with pourboire) 5 1/4 hours.

The Chief Excursions are: To the Col de Riou.Splendid view.

19 Metaphors for  excursions