When sailors talked of good times, they were memories of shore jaunts and sprees.
Not one of your summer jaunts of a few miles on a measured course in a ladies' wind, but a genuine thrash to windward in a scupper breeze with all the "muslin" hung.
In her own mind she had already arranged picnics at the zoo, excursions to the woods, jaunts to the park, that would so occupy and divert the attention of Jack that he would soon forget Joe and the lure of the Slattery gang.
At other times she seemed always to be out on errands or on jaunts with Janet and Tom Sullivan.
On one of my jaunts down this Mount Mansfield road I happened to espy a Canada jay in a thick spruce.
The moonlight jaunts and junketings are characteristic and pleasant, and they offer an opportunity for the British matron who flourishes there as here--heaven bless her--to air her sense of morals in letters to the newspapers.
On one of thesejaunts I had my only interview with a reigning monarch.
It was necessary to meet; it was desirable to do so where they would be unobserved; what else was left to them but to steal away together on these little jaunts and journeys?
She had been out on one of her jaunts with Lovibond, leaving Mrs. Quiggin alone in her room at Castle Mona.
I suppose the critics will laugh heartily, but the influence of those Broadway omnibus jaunts and drivers and declamations and escapades undoubtedly enter'd into the gestation of "Leaves of Grass.
It was thus at one of his latest jaunts in Brooklyn city I saw and heard him.
One finds much in these little jaunts in the Southland to appeal to one's sense of humor; but after all there is much more that appeals to one's sympathies.
There will be the rides, and many jaunts which the weather hath not permitted heretofore.
Thee has been my companion through so many jaunts that I don't feel quite right at leaving thee.
As I sat with him, my old friend talked of bygone jaunts we had taken together, and his grandson, who was present, recalled the day he once spent at our Rectory.
Coffee-houses and clubs for the husband, walks and drives for the wife, and pleasant country jaunts for both.
I was often asked to dinner: at walks and pleasure-jaunts I never failed.
He was off on one of his jaunts or I wouldn't have dared to try it.
On one of those jaunts somebody must have seen him, for he came tearing into the hut late one night saying, 'I am afraid they saw me!
After one of thesejaunts he was always sure to find plenty of work awaiting him, for aside from his prowess as a hunter, he was a veritable Jack of all trades whose services were always in keen demand.
From here they visited Kenilworth, Warwick, and Stratford, and the outcome of the jaunts is reflected in the story.
In those brilliant days of Pickwick he would wander in all directions out of the London streets, and invite Forster to accompany him on these jaunts by sending him brief commands to join him.
In my numerous Rocky Mountain jaunts not one was seen.
I really do not mind teaching, enjoy it, in fact, but oh, my holiday and those walks and jaunts I have been dreaming of in Paris!
To this end, therefore, he gradually reduced the number of his Tippy-Tom-jaunts through the country by night, intimating to his numerous patrons that they had better suit themselves elsewhere ere he ceased travelling altogether.
A horse knows when he is going to hunt, or going to exercise, or going to be shod, or going to the public house, but these unaccustomed jaunts puzzle him.
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