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Example sentences for "journies"

Lexicographically close words:
journeying; journeyings; journeyman; journeymen; journeys; journy; jours; joust; jousted; jousting
  1. Here then were twenty journies in less than one year and an half.

  2. They at times went several of these journies in one and the same year.

  3. They were forty years going from Egypt to Canaan: and they had but forty-two journies thither.

  4. Divide then the rest of the time to the rest of the journies, and they had above thirty-eight years to go their two and twenty journies in.

  5. Moreover they are possessed of athletic strength, for they are accustomed to carry almost four hundred weight, in journies of many months, through very rough roads, when laden with the herb of Paraguay.

  6. During many journies of many weeks, when we had to contend with water, mud, and deep marshes, there was often not a palm of dry land where we could rest at night.

  7. Glad was the Spirit impure as now in hope To find who might direct his wandring flight To Paradise the happie seat of Man, His journies end and our beginning woe.

  8. Some of the most interesting letters relate to journies not given in the MS.

  9. I staid with him, expecting the Mocon; and during that time we made so many journies to the hill, that we filled our warehouses with ivory.

  10. These several journies gave occasion of contracting a very firm and particular friendship between the prince my cousin and myself.

  11. Such a quantity of things are bought, and such a quantity to be bought, that there is no end of journies into the city.

  12. The Duke of Orleans having marry'd the Queen by Proxy, at Strasbourg, the Princess came by short Days Journies to a Place about a League from Moret; where she was met by the King, and the Princesses of the Blood.

  13. According to the night journies of the Bedouins, one hundred hours are equal to ten or eleven marches by day.

  14. I am induced to undertake journies by the private satisfaction that travelling affords, and I care little about personal fatigue.

  15. It seems to be an oblong tract, extending between three and four days' journies from west to east, and two journies in breadth south to north.

  16. AE] I have observed, during my several journies in those parts, that all the way to the North of Seal River the edge of the wood is faced with old withered stumps, and trees which have been blown down by the wind.

  17. Sierra Leone Company; under whose auspices, during the time they were in possession of that colony, several important journies into the interior were judiciously undertaken and successfully executed.

  18. Footnote: If the practice of sending out single individuals on journies of discovery into Africa is still to be continued, it would be better perhaps to employ Mahometan travellers, who might accompany some of the great caravans.

  19. Glad was the Spirit impure as now in hope 630 To find who might direct his wandring flight To Paradise the happie seat of Man, His journies end and our beginning woe.

  20. An Essay to direct and extend the Inquirie of Patriotic Travellers; with further Observations on the Means of preserving the Life, Health, and Property of the inexperienced in their Journies by Land and Sea.

  21. All this, however, is done in a slovenly way; the greatest impositions are often practised; and the itinerant journies on from one scene of thievish combination to another.

  22. Nagpore to Mirzapore, a distance which, by the shortest route, exceeds four hundred miles, in journies of eight or ten miles daily.

  23. The horses were leg-weary; but I could spare no time for rest, otherwise than by making the daily journies short, until we could return to the foot of the dividing ranges.

  24. We found the river on our left when we required it, and encamped on a plain near the water, and distant only a few miles from the camp two journies back from LXVII.

  25. Upon these hopes, we resolved to continue; and, to divert ourselves, we took several little journies in the country.

  26. Lastly, the pacha, who obtained the power in Egypt, was a man of liberal and enlightened views, far above those who had preceded him, and disposed to second and assist the researches and journies of travellers.

  27. After this period, journies to China by the route of Samarcand were frequent.

  28. Females rode on horseback to Kentucky and Tennessee, to see their friends, on journies from four to eight hundred miles.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "journies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.