28 Metaphors for tripping

"The trip was just the thing for Myrtle," added Patsy.

"At my time of life," remarked Major Doyle, who was hale and hearty as a boy, "such a trip is a great undertaking.

This trip has been all a lark to an old tramper like myself.

Since the new railway was built through the adjoining county, however, the stage trip became a mere twelve-mile, cross-country transfer from one railroad to another, and the stage made a later trip, allowing the passengers plenty of time for "dinner" before they started.

The homeward trip would be a mere bagatelle, for surely no Huns would venture to attack them while on the way.

The trip was my main object, and I should have been perfectly contented with terms that paid all the expenses of it.

A Hunting Trip in the Long Ago One of the disadvantages of old age, even advancing years, is the pleasure we lose in anticipating future events.

De trip to Natchez in a rickety old wagon is mos' too much in de hot weather.

The trip up and down the river was a great success for Hagan and for Dawson, but for Cary it was rather a bore.

" CHAPTER III A TRIP TO MONTREAL Soon after returning from this trip, Irving became a clerk in the law office of a Mr. Hoffman.

Several respectable people, out of regard to the old lady, were performing the penance of residing in her house: a trip on hot ashes from Dan to Beersheba would have been luxury by comparison.

I was no hungry; I was tae sair at heart, for it lookit as if I maun gang hame and tell the wife my first trip to London had been a failure.

The trip to the Schwarzsee is the first stage on the Matterhorn route.

"You're joking!" "Nary jokeforty round trips from flying snow to roses since I hit land, Mattiewhy, you were only a little girl when I left heredon't you remember?

Directly in front sat a young couple; the girl, in a fresh white silk waist, wore so fat and new a wedding ring upon her ungloved hand, which the man held in a tight grip, that I surmised that this trip into stageland was perhaps their humble wedding journey, from which they would return to "rooms" made ready by jubilant relatives, eat a wonderful supper, and begin life.

"Three trips across the Atlantic in so short a time would be hard duty to a landsman, though you, as a sailor, will probably think less of it.

636, &c. 'Trip and go' was a proverbial expression, and is found, with its obvious rime 'to and fro,' in several old dance-songs.

My trip to Japan has been a green spot in the desert of my mission to the East.

Such a trip as either of these was a mere holiday picnic.

THE START "IS THIS ROAD TO" The trip was not premeditatedit was not of malice aforethought; it was the outcome of an idle suggestion made one hot summer afternoon, and decided upon in the moment.

To-day a trip from Riga to Paris is a very simple affair.

Maggie says that this trip to Worcester, together with a camp-meeting held in the Hillsdale woods last year, is the extent of her travels, and one would think so to see her.

The Clermont took several days to go from New York to Albany, and the trip was the wonder of that time.

Every trip is an impromptu drama where comedy, farce, and often startling tragedy offer large speaking parts.

Silas Blackburn's fear, his trip to Smithtown, were the first indications of the presence of the other Blackburn.

28 Metaphors for  tripping