The traverse of the Meije even for an experienced mountaineer is a long day's climb.

" Trench traverses and "funk-pit shelters" for localizing the effects of shell-bursts are the terrestrial expression of marine construction.

"La Longue Traverse, even at once, is a pretty slim chance.

We avoided every habitation, and chose the thickest of the woods and the deepest of the hollows, and so conducted our advance that, remarkable as it may seem, from the time we left our outposts at Old Church until we came in sight of the enemy near Hanover Court-House, we did not see a human being, though the distance traversed must have been fully twelve miles.

The traverse was merely a pair of curtains on a rod.