I feel about as joyous as a traveling salesman who has made a town and gotten nary a order!
The day of Wednesday, April 3, was spent in crossing the low hills east of Concord and in traveling along the southern shore of Suisun Bay as far as Antioch Bridge.
I expected to overtake the First Consul at Martigny; but his traveling had been so rapid, that I caught up with him only at the convent of Mt.
The First Consul left Milan on the 24th; and we returned to France by the route of Mont Cenis, traveling as rapidly as possible.
Still, I fancy that the first method of traveling was the more interesting.
These khans serve also as shops or bazaars for the traveling merchant, Persian or Turk, who is ever ready to show you his wares, without seeming to care much whether you buy or not.
We shall be traveling about so much that you need not write me the progress of your romance, but believe me I shall be most interested in its conclusion.
Meanwhile we can be traveling southward and when they catch up with us we will give them another fight if they want it.
He believed that as yet the Woongas were not aware of their presence in this region, and that there was still a large possibility of the renegadestraveling northward beyond their trapping sphere.
I'm as strong as I ever was now, and can catch up with you easily with Mukoki traveling as slowly as he does.
It was evident that Mukoki had been traveling hard, for only once or twice before in his life had Wabi seen him so completely fatigued.
With a new terror filling his own faithful heart he knelt beside the form which lay so limp and lifeless, his blazing eyes traveling from the ghastly face to the oncoming wolves, his rifle ready in his hands.
The Woongas had followed a moose trail, with which they were apparently well acquainted, and in this traveling was easy.
Hardly had Rod seen the effect of his shot before Mukoki was traveling swiftly toward the fallen game, unstrapping his pack as he ran.
Rod now observed for the first time that the individual tracks made by the outlaws were much shorter than their own, showing that instead of being in haste they were traveling quite slowly.
The old Indian was the most famous trailmaker as well as the keenest trailer of his tribe, and in the comparatively open bottoms through which they were now traveling he was in his element.
There was a swell travelingman in there--probably been to Chicago, lots of times.
She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks.
It was their romance; their only mystery besides mass at the Catholic Church; and from the trains came lords of the outer world--traveling salesmen with piping on their waistcoats, and visiting cousins from Milwaukee.
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius.
Probably he was a traveling salesman who sang tenor and fancied himself in imitations of Newport clothes and spoke of "the swellest business proposition that ever came down the pike.
She could not face the traveling salesmen, baronial in large leather chairs.
Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
And if these traveling salesmen would let her alone she would be all right, though I certainly don't believe she ought to be allowed to think she can pull the wool over our eyes.
Raymie waylaid them in the hall and secretly informed Carol that she musn't mind the traveling salesman's coarseness--he belonged to the hwa pollwa.
Carol thought she heard a grunt from the traveling salesman at the end of the table, and Kennicott's jerking elbow was a grunt embodied.
The rags are fed by placing them on the traveling feed apron, and are thus conveyed to the fluted rollers.
The sliver on the bobbins from the card is taken to the mule spinning frame where it is passed through rolls, and the sliver attenuated by means of a traveling carriage.
What a strange way of traveling they have in Africa!
He had certainly seen them travelingin that strange fashion.
The last few weeks of traveling had been very bad,--so bad in fact that half of the Esquimaux had been turned back, to make a camp and wait the return of the others.
Much to his surprise, he found Josiah Graham's traveling bag missing, and also all of the man's clothing.
They had encountered numerous snowstorms, and a cutting west wind had for three days made traveling impossible.
Think of her traveling six thousand mile to jine ther man who hed run away from her at ther meetin' house do'!
Grace attired herself in a traveling suit and hat.
Separating in London, and he traveling east, would she by coming west find him?
As stated before, Grace was in a traveling suit, but Rose was radiant in robe and train and orange wreath, and a buzz of admiration at her exquisite beauty followed her all the way to her place before the altar.
And yet there were just as many pilgrims from all parts of Palestine traveling up to Jerusalem, going, as their fathers did before them, to keep the Passover in the holy city of the Jews.
There were always merchants on the road traveling from the East to Greece and Egypt, and back to the East again.
Levi's job was to collect the fee for traveling along the road, and what he could collect over and above the amount he ought to have charged, he kept for himself.
Illustration] Jesus answered with a story: "A man was traveling on the lonely road between Jerusalem and Jericho.
His alert bearing and enthusiasm marked him in the numbers of nondescript soldiers who were still traveling in the Russian chaos of last spring.
Thessaly is for us (as you may have seen in traveling across it), and would give us two more divisions at least; but our Allies have not yet seen fit to allow us to go there after them.
When that campaign was over, and I thought my traveling days were past, the call came to East Africa, and 1916 was spent in traveling over the vast tropical expanses of that fascinating country.
Only by the co-operation of the railroads with one another and of towns and cities with the railroads can this waste of life and property and this increasing peril to the safety of the traveling public be prevented.
It is the stopping off place for all traveling from south to north, and from north to south, and from west to east.
On one occasion Bacon robbed a traveling jewelry salesman's trunk in a Chicago hotel.
There are a lot of gay chaps traveling these days who think they've got the bulge on the train butcher by a sort of birthright or something.
Wooldridge then reached down into his traveling bag, took out a pair of leg-irons which he placed around Bell's legs, and locked them securely.
Wooldridge outwitted them by taking interurban street car, traveling some twenty-five miles in company with two officers whom the Chief of Police had sent along with him.
Under his arm he carried a pair of blue overalls, and as he laid them on the table he remarked: "My traveling rig.
At the present time traveling salesmen who spend much money and who wish to carry as little as possible of cash with them, have an organized system by which their bankable paper may be cashed at hotels and business houses over the country.
My son became a traveling salesman, going all over this country, and that is one reason for my delay in coming back from Cresville, where I went to find you.
The boys, from long experience in traveling and camping, knew something about simple remedies, and soon a restorative was being forced through Sud's lips.
A mile from the village they were overtaken by an Indian and his squaw, traveling light behind hungry dogs.
In a fit of fury Sully had hurled his pack away, and Knute's last vision of him had been as he went raving and cursing onward like a madman, traveling fast in his fury.
With his native guides a gentleman was traveling one day through one of the wonderfully luxuriant tropical forests of eastern Brazil.
Aside from the Miriki Spider Monkey, of which our little mother was so interesting a specimen, the traveling party from time to time encountered other species of the Spider Monkey, of which there are many.
The traveling salesman instructed the porter that he must leave the train at Cleveland, where he was due at three o'clock in the morning.
His eyes popped at sight of the furious traveling man, who allowed no opportunity for explanations or excuses.
The young lady interested in botany inquired of the gentleman who had been traveling in the South.
The clergyman on his vacation wrote a long letter concerning his traveling experiences to be circulated among the members of the congregation.
The travel in the narrow streets is regulated by law, and so divided that only certain ones are used for vehicles going north, and others for those traveling south.
When traveling any distance, a second horse is added on the left, abreast of the first, and attached to the volante by an added whiffletree and traces.
While traveling in the vicinity of Guines, the author stopped at one of these lonely Montero homes to obtain water and refreshment for his horse.
We have all held our breath at the hazardous traveling of the squirrels in the treetops.
Costly bric-a-brac, which Boss and the madam had purchased while traveling in foreign countries, was in great profusion.
Many old slaves were guided in this way when traveling in the night, and some could tell the time of night by the position of the stars.
They asked me why I had come so far north, and I replied that we kept traveling until we found a place where we could make a good living.
While I was at the Plankinton House many of the traveling men seemingly liked to talk with me when they came to the coat room to check their things.
The road passed over hills and through swamps, and I found the traveling very wearisome.
I got my clothes, and put them in an old pair of saddle bags--two bags made of leather, connected with a strip of leather, and used when traveling horseback for the same purpose as a satchel is used in traveling in the cars.
A great many Japs were traveling about the country, but there was no reason why this circumstance should have attracted special notice in a country like ours where so much traveling is constantly done.
And some one shouted as in reply: "The blackguard has turned three thousand workmen out on the streets to-day so that he can go traveling with his millions.
An American gentleman--a traveling photographic artist, between whom and my lady a secret existed.
This Mrs. Nichols was more willing to do, as directly at her side was another old lady, traveling for the first time, frightened and anxious.
It was the work of a few moments to array her in her traveling dress, and then very cautiously 'Lena led her down the stairs, and out into the open air.
Erelong the stage was announced as ready and waiting, but to the surprise and regret of his fellow-passengers, who had found him a most agreeable traveling companion, Durward said he was not going any further that day.
He was a German banker, traveling across America on business, and the Wolf family was instructed to treat him with great deference.
Herr Werner proved to be a delightful traveling companion and he became so much interested in the details of the experiment that he insisted that he be invited to visit the plant; an invitation that was given most cordially by Roger.
Elsa, freshly burned, but with her silk traveling suit smart in spite of the dust, shook hands all round.
It’s probably that we’re going to blast Kiel harbor from inside or find some way of traveling up the sewers to Paris.
And if he did we’d have to be traveling on the surface to get his message any distance away, and we’d better not do that too much.
They were too low and traveling too fast for ack-ack to be very effective or accurate—and as for those Zeros, the American planes would take care of them in just a few minutes.
They simulated traveling through enemy waters and so ran submerged most of the daylight hours, the Skipper taking a look around occasionally with the periscope.
For some time, they knew, they would be traveling between two long shores.
Tension began to rise in the boat as they neared the convoy, traveling at a hundred and fifty feet where no shadow of a sub would be likely to be seen from the air.
In the night they slipped away from their tender one by one and, traveling on the surface under the protection of night, they headed out to sea silently, on the alert, eagerly looking forward to the task ahead.
His “sub” was travelingunder water, without even the revealing ’scope-ripples to show the enemy where he was.
There were German subs traveling in our waters, too, and there was a constant naval and aerial patrol looking for them.
