26 Metaphors for traveller

Individual travellers, moreover, have been the victims of their own credulity, stupidity, self-conceit, and prejudice.

A TRAVELLER Is a native of all countries and an alien at home.

"A great traveller, a most interesting man, is the only person of that sort I could obtain for this evening, and I shall have great pleasure in introducing you.

The travellers were several hours ascending into the mountains, by a country road that could scarcely be surpassed by a French wheel-track of the same sort, for Mademoiselle Viefville protested, twenty times in the course of the morning, that it was a thousand pities Mr. Effingham had not the privilege of the corvée, that he might cause the approach to his terres to be kept in better condition.

But Arctic travellers are proof against such trifles.

Travellers are slight iron rings, encircling the backstays, and are used for hoisting the top-gallant yards, and confining them to the backstays.

These ghosts frequently appear by night to the living, and very often on the public highways; but if the traveller is not frightened, the spectre vanishes.

The travellers are Englishmen, give themselves out as merchants, and assume the name of Philipson, the Christian name of the younger, who is the hero of the novel, being Arthur.

AN AFFECTED TRAVELLER Is a speaking fashion; he hath taken pains to be ridiculous, and hath seen more than he hath perceived.

The travellers were an American family, which had long been wandering about Europe, and which was now destined it knew not whither, having just traversed a thousand miles of Germany in its devious course.

The other traveller, however, was a Catholic priest.

This senior traveller, Mr. Jonathan Oldenbuck (by popular contraction Oldbuck), of Monkbarns, was the owner of a small property in the neighbourhood of a thriving seaport town on the north-eastern coast of Scotland, which we shall denominate Fairport.

That is, "For a traveller to be an Englishman in London," &c.

The other traveller was a young Scotsman, who proposed to go as far as Aden in the Berenice, on his way to Abyssinia, trusting that a residence of some months in Egypt would enable him to pass for a Turk.

Brooks's was proud of him; and without him the 'Travellers'' would not have been such a Travellers' as it is.

Under the cloud of night and solitude, the mischief-loving traveller was often in the habit of applying his torch to the withered boughs of wood, or to artificial hedges: and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen not unfrequently in the American woods (but generally from carelessness in scattering the glowing embers of a fire, or even the ashes of a pipe), were then occasionally the result of mere wantonness of mischief.

A weary traveller is no guest for such a table.

Your rich traveller is not an every-day sight among our rocks; and you well know Signore, that there may be too few, as well as too many, on a path, for your freebooter.

A traveller might be a spy; hence, all this red tape for the many to catch the one.

My fellow travellers were two Brunswick officers in the service of the Princess of Wales, who were returning to their native country; and a Hungarian and his son settled in Domo d'Ossola.

Now should you say I judge amiss, The CHERRY TREE shows proof of this; For soon of all [40] the happy there, 355 Our Travellers are the happiest pair; All care with Benjamin is gone A Cæsar past the Rubicon!

Every traveller is a self-taught entomologist.

"On throwing stones down the precipices, thousands of feet deep, the traveller feels an almost irresistible desire to throw himself after them!" Monthly Magazine.

A traveller, to thee unknown, Is he that calls, a warrior's son.

Commercial travellers, as a rule, are men of the world; but, as I go about, I want to go about my Father's business.

26 Metaphors for  traveller