Since I met the Lancashire excursionist at Lowestoft I have been wondering what is the essential distinction between the Cockney-tripper and the holiday-maker one meets at New Brighton, Douglas, or Blackpool.
Where so sweet a garden, or so gracious a stream to water it, as lies open to the excursionist in the valley of the Thames between Maidenhead and beautiful Oxford?
An Eclipse excursionist who finds himself at Gibraltar, and who wishes to avoid as much as possible land travelling in Spain by going on to Alicante and stationing himself in that neighbourhood, must take shipping locally at Gibraltar.
The intending Eclipse excursionist must first make his choice between (practically) a journey of all sea or of all land.
One day an excursionist swam far out over the breakers.
By means of a wire ladder the excursionist descends still deeper into the bowels of the earth.
There is a gradual ascent to the steps, and the final flight of 41 brings the excursionist to the gate and to the sunshine.
Having descended the 50-feet ladder, the foot of which is clamped to a bare rock, the excursionist watches the guide hopping gleefully down, with candles in one hand and paraphernalia in the other.
Ascending two flights of stairs with 14 steps each, theexcursionist attains a height of about 40 feet above the Gravel Pits in a north-westerly direction.
Niagara has suffered far more from the sentimental tourist and the landscape artist than from all the power-houses, and one has to make a strenuous effort of detachment from its excursionist associations to appreciate its sublimity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excursionist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
