Every meal they put into their waste baskets necessarily extracted one day from the other end of their excursion via the fire escape, and that is one reason why they returned so soonly.
Their hunt had proven fairly successful, quite a bunch of game having been secured, rendering the excursion very satisfactory.
Miss Charpentier was now making a summer excursion under the care of the lady who had superintended her education.
In 1824 he had gone on an excursion to Saratoga, Lake George, and Lake Champlain, with a small party of English gentlemen.
The English title was "A Residence in France; with an Excursion up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland.
The 10th of September, the Princess made an excursion to Bacqueville, where there awaited her a numerous cortege of Cauchois women, all on horseback, in the costume of the country.
To visit this camp was a favorite excursionfor the people and for strangers.
Small craft lay along the steep muddy shores, and at one place a little excursion steamer was waiting for the tide to come in and float it for the fulfilment of its promise of sailing at ten o'clock.
In fact, I think it was much surpassed in a climax of dramatic poignancy incident to our excursion to Bishopsthorpe, down the Ouse, on one of the cosey little steamers which ply the stream without unreasonably crowding it against its banks.
He told me that people had talked a great deal about our excursion to Schoenna, and looked at me to see if that annoyed me.
It was certainly a pity that they did not support me better as I toiled up the steep narrow stairs, but what business had I to descend them, when every glance through my windows is an excursion into Paradise.
The following evening, when the count was prevented by some excursion from appearing at his usual post, her efforts to lure me into her nets were redoubled.
We are both of us strangers here; who only had agreed to make thisexcursion together.
One day in an excursion of this sort he passed by a cook's shop, and being hungry, stepped in to take some refreshment.
It chanced that in our infancy our father the sultan marched upon a huntingexcursion throughout his dominions, for some months, leaving his vizier to conduct affairs at the capital.
He accordingly loaded his ass and set off for the capital, on the road to which he met the sultan, whom he had never before seen; and who being on a hunting excursion had separated from his attendants.
The other day an excursion was arranged to Sondershausen, a town about three hours' ride from Weimar in the cars.
We made a beautiful excursion the other day in carriages, through the hills, to a little village far distant, where we drank coffee in the open air.
The other day we all made an excursion to Jena, which is about three hours' drive from here.
This excursion is detailed in the "London Journal of Botany," and the Asiatic Society of Bengal honoured me by printing the meteorological observations made during its progress.
I however made a three days' excursion to the frontier, about thirty miles distant, proceeding along the north bank of the Soormah.
Early in January we accompanied Mr. Lautour on an excursionto the north, following a valley separated from the coast by a range of wooded hills, 1000 feet high.
I had no lack of volunteers for a similar excursion in the following season, though with their usual fickleness, more than half failed me, long before the time arrived for putting their zeal to the proof.
I made an excursion to Chomiomo on the following day, hoping to reach the lower line of perpetual snow.
I several times made this trip; on the excursion about to be described, and in which I was accompanied by Mr. Barnes, I followed the Great Rungeet to the Teesta, into which it flows.
A very favourite and interesting excursion from Dorjiling is to the cane bridge over the Great Rungeet river, 6000 feet below the station.
It was Saturday again, a week after the excursion to the Indian school.
Because of it, too, he had come up to plan another picnic, this time an excursion to Paradise Valley on the other side of Camelback.
So that his freakish excursion was not starting very auspiciously.
He remembered the ecstasy of their excursion to Switzerland.
My heart was sick of the scenes daily witnessed on board, and I believed that if I could only get a day's excursion into the wild woods it would be a real happiness.
Of course then our excursion was a hunting one, and we carried the implements of the chase--though it would hardly be just to give this title to the weapons we carried.
If she wished for an excursion in the neighbourhood, M.
This excursion had been arranged before the departure of Madame Delong.
Oudney made an excursion to Janoun, the Kesar Jenoun.
On an excursion westward, from Mourzuk to Ghat, they arrived near Ludinat, in the valley of Serdalas or Sardalis.
Your excursion to Aricia was by no means as much a secret as you have all along supposed.
Flexinna makes an excursion into the country in a litter with drawn curtains, her husband riding by it.
The day was delightful; one of those grey summer-days, that are far better for an excursion than bright ones.
Every few minutes a tip-toe excursion was made to the bedside, and now and then to the other room.
In summer, then, the Esquimaux desert their winter houses upon the shore, and taking with them their tents make an excursion into the interior.
The waiting-room was crowded with passengers for an excursion train, and she felt the country-dweller's discomfort and irritation at being jostled.
How would Ellen like to stay at school for the first part of the holidays and then come to New York to meet Fetzer, the excursion to be his Christmas gift?
Grandfather pondered upon his comings and goings and decided correctly upon the exact day on which he had made his first excursion in search of literature.
It was part of the cure to make an excursion three or four times a week.
But our excursion to M---- was a much larger, a much more full dress affair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excursion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
