80 Metaphors for journeying

Undine had been struck by these arguments as justifying and even ennobling her course, and had let Peter understand that she had been actuated by the highest motives in openly associating her life with his; but he had opposed a placid insensibility to these allusions, and had persisted in treating her as though their journey were the kind of escapade that a man of the world is bound to hide.

This little journey was so emphatically, an act of faith, and the course of it lay so much through a part of Europe seldom visited by travellers, that we shall transcribe the diary of it without much curtailment. 9 mo.

My contemplated journey to the Marquesas Islands was to them a foolish and dangerous labor for no good reason.

To be buried at Jerusalem is considered an especially sweet thing, and it is indeed very good for these aged ones that the symbol and that which it symbolised should coincide, and that for them the journey to Jerusalem the earthly should be so obviously and materially a big step towards Jerusalem the golden.

His journey, however, was a much more romantic affair than a railway trip would have been.

The journey to Cleveland was a silent but a pleasant one.

That Liane herself had not so suddenly decided to leave France, where she was after a fashion somebody, and journey to America, where she would be nobody, except in stress of mortal fear lest the fate that had befallen de Lorgnes befall her in turnas would surely have been the case last night but for Lanyard.

Moreover, our journey was a constant succession of stops and starts.

He found it and let the mustang drop back to a steady dogtrot; for, if the journey to Sour Creek was now a short distance, there would be a hard ride back to the flat-topped mountain if he wished to accomplish his business and return before the full dawn.

But the journey was a tremendous difficulty.

"The journey was a long and a slow one, but I was rather glad of it, for it gave me an opportunity to ponder over the most ambitious scheme I have ever formed in the whole course of my life.

I have no doubt that two volumes on Italy will prove equally delightful to your readers, whilst the journey will be the best possible remedy for all that you have suffered in spirits and health.

The last journey of Victoria the Good from Osborne to the mausoleum at Frogmore, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, was a spectacle never to be forgotten.

After three days journey is the town of Scasom, seated in a plain, through the middle of which there flows a great river; and there are many castles in the surrounding mountains.

Landing to cook our dinners, I went to the top of the highest neighbouring hill, to obtain a round of angles: our journey was a perfect scramble, the face of the country being intersected by deep ravines, and covered with huge blocks of coarse sandstone; over these we observed several of the rock-kangaroo, bounding with their long, bushy tails swinging high in the air as if in defiance of pursuit.

At Coimbra, about two days' journey from Oporto, is a Roman bridge and aqueduct, nearly entire.

A journey home at twelve o'clock at night in a fly was not the time for the expression of her resolution.

"You go to meet King Rience, but your journey will be a failure unless you are guided by my counsel.

And this journey was but a sample of the travel and exposures of the year of labor, on which Brother Frink had entered.

His letters from the Hebrides to Mrs. Thrale are the original of that work of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation; and it is amusing to compare the two versions.'

His journey and reception in the capital were the occasion of tumultuous public rejoicings, and when the emperor met him, the reconciliation was complete.

The journey, though in point of space a mere trifle, was, in those slowcoach days, a matter of fully five hours' duration; and before it was completed the sun had set, and darkness began to close.

These aërial journeys may be foretastes of those we shall make after we are freed from the incumbrance of avoirdupois.

His journey to Hanover was a triumphant procession.

His journey was a triumphal progress, and the welcome was warmest in the States of the South, in Saxony and Bavaria.

80 Metaphors for  journeying