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Example sentences for "travelled"

Lexicographically close words:
traveled; traveler; travelers; traveling; travell; traveller; travellers; travelleth; travelling; travels
  1. Tho' I was born in Connecticut, I have travelled all over the thirteen united univarsal worlds of ourn and am a citizen at large.

  2. Gobseck sits in a corner of his web like an old spider who has travelled round the world.

  3. He had travelled the road with passengers behind him for a couple of months and met with no accident, but one night as he set off for the divide he fancied that the silence was deeper, the canon darker, and the air frostier than usual.

  4. After a time it occurred to him to see where these tracks went to, and he followed them until they merged with others in a travelled road, ending at a precipice on the side of Katahdin (Great Mountain).

  5. Getting on their trail he rode over it furiously, and at night had reached Oak Canon, along which he travelled until he saw the gleam of a small fire ahead.

  6. After slaying the prince of serpents he travelled all over America, doing good work, and on reaching Onondaga he organized a friendly league of thirteen tribes that endured for many years.

  7. Johnson seemed a little angry, and said, 'Sir, you have not travelled over my mind, I promise you.

  8. More about Boswell Boswell travelled a good deal and visited several European countries besides Holland.

  9. Master and pupil had travelled together; Garrick was to 'complete his education' at an academy kept by a Mr Colson, but it was well for Johnson that he "knew how he could live in the cheapest manner.

  10. They often travelled together and in a later chapter we shall read some account of their journeys, especially of Johnson's visit to Scotland, about which each of them wrote a book.

  11. After this escape, Lord Berkeley swore he would never be robbed again, and always travelled at night with a short carriage-gun and a brace of pistols.

  12. He was peculiarly unfortunate, for Turnham Green and Gunnersbury were veritable Alsatias then, and those who travelled here should not have mentioned so ordinary a happening as having their purses taken.

  13. Passengers, therefore, resigned themselves with a sigh to the expenditure, and travelled as little as they possibly could.

  14. Palmer had frequently travelled the roads, and he rightly conceived thirty-eight hours to be too long a time to take for a journey of 106 miles.

  15. I should like to call up one of our great-grandfathers who travelled these thirty-nine miles painfully by coach, and read that paragraph to him.

  16. XX And now for the plain, unvarnished narrative of one who travelled these roads a century ago.

  17. They were also used to "decorate" the skin-covered trunks which our ancestors took with them on their rare journeys of pleasure or business, when they travelled by the mail-coach or less expensive stage wagon.

  18. Hood uses the similitude when speaking of how travel improves the mind, and tells of the gradual narrowing of copper and brass as they become finer and finer, likening those who have not travelled to the narrowed metal.

  19. An occulist, who travelled through those regions two or three years later, investigated the truth of these alleged cures, and found them to be authentic.

  20. Had we not slept on their bosom or travelled upon it for countless hours, till the secret of their mystery and the joy of their wandering had penetrated into our very soul?

  21. He had travelled on the Casiquiare and the Rio Negro, and had visited the Upper Amazon.

  22. It sounds fanciful and exaggerated, but all those who have travelled over the plains of either Venezuela or Colombia will have heard that such is the commonest mode of tiger-killing amongst the llaneros.

  23. Along the Cumberland Road, which was the great highway between the East and the West, travelled home-seekers outward bound and business men and politicians to whom Washington beckoned irresistibly.

  24. They always travelled in a coach and four and they lived in great style at the Capital.

  25. So I can only tell you that we all came from Germany, where we were made, and were carefully packed in a little pasteboard box, in which we travelled to the English house to which we were sent, with numbers of others.

  26. I am afraid the thoughts of going to the sea have bewildered your little head so, that your fingers have travelled along without any guidance, like runaway horses with the coachman fast asleep!

  27. The box in which he travelled not being more than four feet and a half long, I supposed he must be a dwarf, and was laughing at his peculiar mode of conveyance.

  28. Thus, to take a last case out of many, Dickens travelled in a French railway train, and noticed that this eccentric nation provided him with wine that he could drink and sandwiches he could eat, and manners he could tolerate.

  29. All knowledge which alters our lives penetrates us more when it comes in the early morning: the day that has to be travelled with something new and perhaps forever sad in its light, is an image of the life that spreads beyond.

  30. The intelligence of the revolt speedily travelled over all surrounding districts, and attracted to the spot the entire available blackguardism of the neighbourhood.

  31. The ladies of the court travelled in six palanquins, and the gentlemen on as many elephants.

  32. She became an actress and travelled from country town to country town, with a troop of mediocre actors, dragging Lady Mowbray's son along with her, the child whose position and name you had usurped.

  33. My father has travelled for the past fifteen years in foreign lands; perhaps I shall never see him.

  34. And, in fine, although we could not have travelled by railway, we were masters to have taken the steamer instead of the diligence at Civita Vecchia.

  35. If we did, consider the calamity we should be to the be-travelled Italian communities we now bless!

  36. On the same train in which we had travelled from Moscow was Prince Gurkon, commander-in-chief of all the armies of Russia.

  37. From the magistracies they passed into the Senate; and the Roman senator, though in Rome itself and in free debate among his colleagues he was handled as an ordinary man, when he travelled had the honors of a sovereign.

  38. Marius after his sixth consulship had travelled in the East, and understood it as well as Sylla.

  39. He travelled with the retinue of a man of rank, and on his way to Rhodes he fell in with an adventure which may be something more than legend.

  40. They travelled with their wives and children, their wagons, as with the ancient Scythians and with the modern South African Dutch, being at once their conveyance and their home.

  41. They travelled swiftly; and Caesar, as usual, himself brought the news that he was coming.

  42. He travelled sometimes a hundred miles a day, reading or writing in his carriage, though countries without roads, and crossing rivers without bridges.

  43. Clyde lost all idea of direction, but her companion was never at a loss, and finally they emerged upon a broad, well-travelled trail.

  44. I went and got my horse, and took her up behind me, and we travelled all the rest of the night without saying a word to each other.

  45. I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.

  46. Behind them again, with head shaking from one side to the other, travelled Macavoy; and they all marched away towards the Fort.

  47. Never," said Pierre dreamily, "and I've travelled far.

  48. Pierre had travelled to Fort O'Angel almost wholly because he had Tim Macavoy in his mind: in it Mrs. Whelan had only an incidental part; his plans journeyed beyond her and her lost consort.

  49. In the thirteenth century an advance was made in materia medica by Gilbert and Hernicus Arviell, two Englishmen who travelled through Asia to study plants and their uses.

  50. Many of them travelled from fair to fair in order to make a little money by the sale of white lead, vermilion, antimony, and other drugs used by women for painting the face, and drugs which the Scripture calls ointments of lust.

  51. He travelled all over Europe, and so obtained an extensive knowledge of chemistry and medicine.

  52. The early part of his life was spent in Egypt, but he also travelled in order to gather experience and knowledge until he reached the age of forty years.

  53. A Welshman by birth, he was educated at Oxford, and then travelled throughout Europe, claiming that he had discovered the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone.

  54. His fame having spread abroad, he travelled to Rome and became physician to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

  55. By others it is said the arrow was presented to him by Apollo, and that upon it he rode through the air, and travelled over lands, seas, mountains, and other inaccessible places.

  56. He attended the University of Cracow (where he probably received his doctor's degree), studied magic which was there taught as an accepted branch of knowledge, and appears to have afterwards travelled for many years through Europe.

  57. Ben Jonson gives a description of the itinerant doctor in Queen Elizabeth's time, who travelled the country, usually accompanied by a jester or zany, as he was called, who carried the box or chest containing his remedies.

  58. According to Herodotus, he travelled over the world with an arrow, eating nothing during his journey.

  59. The nature of the one swift glance that travelled after them from Ernest's eyes did not escape my observation, so I suggested that he, Miss Grosvenor, and myself should follow a good example, and we did.

  60. A huge figure as described by Dawn came out of the house in company with Miss Flipp, and I recognised Mr Pornsch, the heavy swell who had travelled in the 'bus with me on the day of my first arrival in Noonoon.

  61. Having travelled for some time, they at length reached the river.

  62. Seeing that resistance was useless, the two young girls complied with his wish, and travelled quietly on with him.

  63. Hurrying along with them, a dog of Byamee's, which would fain have lain by the roadside rather than have travelled so swiftly, but Byamee would not leave her and hurried her on.

  64. They told him that some day their tribe would come and steal them back again; to avoid which he travelled quickly on and on still further, hoping to elude all pursuit.

  65. His mind travelled in the one circle, the arcs of which were home, school and the bank.

  66. Evan gave his mind an excursion every day into the large world beyond him; the further he travelled the more ridiculous his present occupation seemed.

  67. They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    travelled over; travelled through