In June of the same year Keats set off with his chief intimate, Charles Armitage Brown (a retired Russia merchant who afterwards wrote a book on Shakespeare's Sonnets), on a pedestrian tour in Scotland, which extended into North Ireland as well.

Dr. Madden writes: "The attractions of the Pyrenees are not, however, confined to the invalid traveller, but even for the pleasure tourist offer inducements for a pedestrian excursion in some respects superior to any in Switzerland;" and there can be no doubt that they have a beauty of their own quite distinct from the grandeur of the Alps, and yet equally as wonderful in its style.

Through the ambrosial night he walked and walked, at the steady pace of one accustomed to pedestrian exercise: from Notting Hill Gate to the Marble Arch; from the Marble Arch to New Oxford Street; thence by Theobald's Road to Pentonville, and up, and up, until he attained the heights of his own salubrious quarter.

This caused my Highland blood to rise, and made me despise the fatigue of keeping them all at the top of their speed for days together, till I heard them expressing proper opinions of my pedestrian powers.

I felt so much pain in my legs, from the effect of my pedestrian journey, that I was obliged to remain in my chamber one entire day.

Mr. MASEFIELD however soon abandoned this manner and made the rest of his way in a good solid pedestrian style.

And then, partly to kill time, partly to get himself in trim for to-morrow's trip, which he meant to make strictly in character as the pedestrian tourist, he walked round three sides of a square in returning to Nantby way, that is, of Sauclières and the upper valley of the Dourbie.

He argues from this that "prose seemed to the Greeks, and even to the Latins who followed in their footsteps, as fit only for pedestrian purposes."

As if, therefore, I were able to consult himself as to what he would wish, so I give my vote for a pedestrian statue of brass, as if I were speaking by his authority and inclination; which by the honour of the memorial will diminish and mitigate the great grief and regret of his fellow-citizens.

And so the long pageant troops by, not without its passages of dullness, its moments of pedestrian gait, for it must be borne in mind that the poems quoted above are for the most part the choice of what has survived in a few volumes, and that this in its turn represents the gleanings from a far larger body of verse that once existed.

Before he saw the walker, he knew him for a belated pedestrian hurrying home.

Their students cannot compare with our college singing, their pedestrian parties, which one meets all through the country, singing, often from notes (and if you take the trouble to inquire, they will frequently tell you with pride that they belong to such and such a singing society) almost drive sensitive ears crazy.

The Highlands have lost their loneliness, and the inventions of the modern gunsmith have robbed one of the grandest of hunting dogs of his glory, relegating him to the life of a pedestrian pet, whose highest dignity is the winning of a pecuniary prize under Kennel Club rules.

But it was by no such pedestrian process as this that he reached the truth.

It reaches into the highest abstraction of the ideal; it does not refuse the most pedestrian realism.

So, with such pedestrian reasons in my mind, I could have none of the heady enthusiasm of passion.

In addition to this private trials are necessary in the presence of someone who is accustomed to timing races by the aid of a stop-watcha by no means easy task, considering that a slight particle of a second means so many yards, and the average speed working out at about 16 yards per secondnearly twice as fast as the fastest pedestrian sprinter, and altogether beyond the power of the fleetest race-horse.

We have our ideal, if not typical, Frenchman, little less truthful perhapstaken from refugees and excursionists, from the close-cropped, dingy denizen of Leicester Square; our tourist suits, heavy pedestrian toots, "wide-awakes," and faded fashions, used up in travelall these things are put down to insular peculiarities.

After remaining some weeks, at Lausanne on my return from Clermont, I determind on making a pedestrian trip as far as Bern and Neufchatel previous to returning into Italy, which it is my intention to do in September.

In this particular he became notorious, and marvelous stories are related of his pedestrian abilities.

As the house stood at little more than three miles' distance from Stratford, I resolved to pay it a pedestrian visit, that I might stroll leisurely through some of those scenes from which Shakespeare must have derived his earliest ideas of rural imagery.

You had performed incredible pedestrian achievements, and were not hungry, but simply weary.

When I rashly consented to a pedestrian ascent of Helvellyn I had forgotten what the gentleman was like; and as to Dolly Waggon I had actually forgotten her existence.

This professional pedestrian business doesn't seem a pretty one at all.

A dearest friend within pedestrian distance: so that it would seem well to plant a circle of delightful families just in the outskirts of every town, merely to serve as magnets.