On reaching the Doelen, we found a hasty scrawl from the very man we had been talking of--van Leeuwen--inviting Terence and myself to a cycling tour in his neighbourhood.
I shouted through the closed door, "you may come as soon as ever you like; but there'll be no bicycle tour to-day.
Took a day off, in fact; and went for a tour round the Rotterdam havens.
Here the Goudsche sprits seller, in his tour up and down the platform, approached the burly Londoner again, and seeing him now in an unexpectedly melting mood, at once proffered his delicacies with noisy persistence.
Even the younger women wanted garments which would keep them warm and dry, and Hyacinth often returned well satisfied from a tour of the country shops.
Mr. Justice Saunders, a tall, stout man with a florid face, made a tour of the factory under the charge of one of the senior Sisters.
In 1814 he made a tour on the Continent, visiting France, Switzerland, the Reuss, and the Rhine, the magnificent scenery of which produced the most striking effects on his mind.
He made one touron the Continent as companion to Mr. Talbot, the eldest son of the chancellor.
That Milton needed no such romantic incentive to his Italian tour is self-evident, having a sufficient one in his classical and poetic tastes; but as it appeared in a newspaper, and obtained general credence, it may be worth transcribing.
When he had been at Cambridge about five years, he agreed to make a tour on the Continent with Horace Walpole, and they proceeded together through France to Italy, where they quarreled and parted, taking different ways.
The tour of Milton in Italy is a marked portion of his life, and no doubt opened wide fields of poetic imagination and of artistic experience in his mind.
Before reaching it, he received a proposal to go on a second tour of Europe for three years, with the son of the Duke of Somerset, but refused the duke's offers.
In his first tour he traversed Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, tracking his way in light by the composition of Childe Harold.
Mrs. Bamberry ever tell you of my tour to Saratogy Springs?
It is the Private Journal of a Gentleman of Leisure and Education, and of a highly cultivated mind, in making the Tour of Europe.
Howard spent last winter in a tour over the State of Maine and Canada.
Old Traps," as we called him, took a tour southward, and left us.
It is the Private Journal of a Gentleman of Leisure and Education, and of a highly cultivated mind, in making the tour of Europe.
They were compelled to go on tour in the provinces, at the expense of their revenues and reputation, because 'an aery [i.
The King's players were compelled to make a prolonged tour in the provinces, which entailed some loss of income.
The next forenoon he was on hand, bright and early, and he and Kendrick went over to the village on another tour of inspection.
So when Aunt Thankful suggested the Cape Cod tour of inspection Emily gladly agreed to go.
Here I made fast the rope, and proceeded on my tour of inspection, keeping a careful watch lest any of the rebels should have remained on guard on the leads.
The foreigntour I undertook in my eighteenth year has been sufficiently, or even more than sufficiently, described by the accomplished and courtly pen of Vohrenlorf's secretary.
Nothing could be done; and as soon as the first stir was over, Wetter left for a tour abroad without any opposition, and carrying with him a good deal of sympathy.
I discovered afterward without surprise that the stay with my relatives was added to my tour at Prince von Hammerfeldt's suggestion.
Mazzini wrote to him to begin his tour in the provinces at once, before he went to London; and met him, soon after he arrived, at Mr Seely's house in the Isle of Wight.
Kossuth's lecturing tour in the States in 1852 had excited an angry feeling against Austria.
My lecture tour was made much more successful for it and I embarked for England late in November with a very generous American contribution to our war chest, a contribution, alas, that I was not permitted to deliver in person.
Then he makes a little tour of a fortnight to New Haven, Providence, Springfield, &c.
It is astonishing how few people out of the great number constantly making the tour of Europe really carry home any thing to show for it except photographs and laces.
It happened also that in the course of a foreign tour their Royal Highnesses of Gloucester passed a few days in that town.
Declining the offer of a place in the service of the Emperor, he commenced a tour into the East, travelling through Persia and Armenia, and, returning to Europe, resided for some time in its principal capitals.
Almost as she finished her last remark, Mr. Carstairs's daughter turned from the rail and took a step forward upon the deck, as though to jog her host toward that promised tour of the yacht which had now flagged so long.
It appeared that the under-steward had just returned from a marketing tour in Hunston, had met Mr. Maginnis on the street, and been ordered to take back the parcel to Mr. Varney.
In hopes that she will have a letter announcing that she has been forgiven by the relatives who have renounced her, Madame de la Tourgoes to the port.
St. Phar, not wishing to sing, pleads a cold, but when he learns that he is in the apartments of Madame de la Tour he consents, and the rehearsal goes off finely.
The Marquis, furious because he has been rejected by Madame de la Tour in favor of an opera singer, seeks revenge, but his plans are thwarted.
La famille Gruntham were breaking their first wide-eyed, open-mouthed tour de monde in Cairo, having selected their hotel from an advertisement in the A.
The conversation turned upon a new work of his just going to the press (the 'Tour to the Hebrides'), and his old friend Richardson.
Not wishing to let the elevator boy know they were on a tour of inspection, the three boys walked up to the next floor.
The next morning Mrs. Graham left the others and started for her visit to her aunt, leaving John with his friends to accompany them on their historical tour of the city.
It was with Boswell that Johnson made his most famous journey, his tour to Scotland.
Soon after Keats published this poem, he, with a friend, set out on a walking tour to the Lake Country and to Scotland.
It was after his return from this tour that his dearly loved brother, Tom, died.
The money with which he bought the bulbs was borrowed, and now he left Leyden to make the tour of Europe burdened already with debt, with one guinea in his pocket, and one clean shirt and a flute as his luggage.
All I remember is that I sat with some insipid girl whose hair was flaxen and as colourless as her mind, sipping my tea while I listened to her silly chatter about a Cook's tour she had just taken through Holland and Belgium.
Then descending, I called a taxi and immediately began a tour of the various hotels where I thought it most likely that the man I sought might be.
He made a soap-box tour for the Anti-Saloon League, preaching at the same time the Gospel of Beauty.
His greatest tour de force is his poem, Still Life.
He met here a comrade, who was making a wedding tour with his young bride.
Stewart, at my suggestion, made a tour that summer among the Anazeh and Shammar Bedouins, but failed to get on good terms with them, the truth being that he was quite out of sympathy with Orientals.
