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Example sentences for "traveller"

Lexicographically close words:
traveler; travelers; traveling; travell; travelled; travellers; travelleth; travelling; travels; traversable
  1. A great traveller who has seen most of the world's beautiful spots told me he had never looked on anything quite so splendid as the view from here--so spacious, so varied, so majestic.

  2. While they were there another traveller came by, ascending from Lungern, and he stopped to rest there too.

  3. This stamp represents the permission of the government whose minister affixes it that the traveller may enter the territory under their jurisdiction.

  4. In ascending Mont Blanc the traveller sometimes comes to a precipice of ice, with a chasm of immense depth, and four or five feet wide, at the bottom of it.

  5. The principle is, that whatever the traveller requires for his own personal use, in travelling, is not liable to duty.

  6. To get this stamp, the traveller must carry or send his passport to the great central police office of Paris, called the prefecture of police.

  7. Before 1635, the post enjoyed no priority over the traveller in being provided with horses, and if all the horses happened to be in use when the mail arrived, it had to wait.

  8. Generally this fee was named in the warrant empowering the traveller to take up horses.

  9. A few years later when the London-Berwick posts became an established fact each postman had to provide one horse, always to be ready to carry either the mails or a chance traveller on affairs of state.

  10. At the time of payment the postmaster was to give the traveller a ticket, which must be shown to the toll keepers on the road.

  11. Charles Berns Wadstrom, esquire, traveller on discovery in Africa for the King of Sweden.

  12. Andrew Spaarman, physician, botanist, and successor to Linnaeus, traveller on discovery in Africa for the King of Sweden.

  13. The traveller was soon mounted, and sure enough it was as nice a tit as onny man need wish throw a leg over.

  14. The traveller got out, and took it up,-- Most strange!

  15. The answer returned was, that the traveller "would come as soon as he could;" and upon the cheese he fell again with increased energy.

  16. The traveller began to be impatient, when Jem at last made his appearance at the door, pipe in hand.

  17. It had been a stormy November day, when a commercial traveller alighted at the door of the Swan Inn.

  18. Indian-rubber roads yet, though advanced beyond the point at which the traveller in my legend was obliged to stop.

  19. To abide by her present hiding-place would be imprudent in the highest degree, for the Well of Palms was the resort of every traveller who approached Babylon on its southern side.

  20. And a modest maiden means nothing, I suppose, who frequents the well at which every traveller from the desert must needs halt--who draws water for warriors to drink, and unveils for a stranger she never saw before!

  21. Ere dawn had fairly broke, and long before the gold on bit and bridle-piece caught the first flash of sunrise, the traveller had sped many a furlong on his way, and the vultures had laboured back to continue their loathsome meal.

  22. Mrs. de Burgh accompanied Mary to her room, where, after lingering a little to see that she had everything that she could want to minister to her comfort, she left the pale and now really-wearied traveller to her needful repose.

  23. No need to ask her beating heart who that traveller might be.

  24. He tried to familiarize himself with the fancy that he should thus also get new material for observation, and he went so far as to plan an Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down.

  25. Mr. Thomas Beard) "would do, for All the Year Round while I was away, The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down.

  26. I am both a town traveller and a country traveller, and am always on the road.

  27. An Aragonese official, Santangel, found the money, the L1500 required for the expedition, and the traveller was overtaken by an alguazil a couple of leagues away, and recalled to Granada.

  28. A traveller who visited America some years earlier reports that there was much discontent, and that separation was expected before very long.

  29. But Leo X sent orders that the passport should be respected and that the traveller should depart in peace.

  30. The traveller addressed him as follows:--"Is this water deep?

  31. Father," said Jack, "have you any entertainment for a benighted traveller that has lost his way?

  32. But, like a traveller home who craves For friends and finds forgotten graves, I seek you where you dwelled, and, lo, Even farewells not left to say!

  33. I can conceive that death may be approached not only with composure, but with a bursting impatience; just as the youthful traveller pants to leap from the vessel that bears him to a foreign land.

  34. The land was every where richly cultivated, and a happier peasantry, as far as the eye of the traveller could judge, nowhere exists.

  35. He is a traveller by profession, and a vender of such things as any will buy, and will go wherever he may hope to make large gains wherewith to do his share toward "building again the walls of Jerusalem," as he calls it.

  36. Nowhere in the world has what a shrewd English traveller calls "the illegitimate development of private wealth" attained such proportions in modern times as in America, and especially in California.

  37. But at least we could congratulate ourselves that the pass of Ryhgo was at an end, and that the black waters of Lake Montardo no longer lay in wait for the hapless traveller a thousand feet below.

  38. My car belonged to that earlier phase of motoring when the traveller was more exposed to the British climate than modern science considers necessary.

  39. True, all true, mesdames and messieurs--I have been your fellow- traveller myself.

  40. Just think of the great mountain districts which lie in the very midst of civilisation, pathless, trackless, and unknown, where a benighted traveller may perish within the very sound of succour, if he but knew where to seek it.

  41. What a bright prerogative has genius, that thus can people space with images which time and years erase not, making to the solitary traveller a world of bright thoughts even in the darkness of a lonely wood!

  42. How cheering to the wayworn traveller as he plods along his weary road, to lift from time to time his eyes to the guide- star in the distance!

  43. The traveller in France or Germany catches no glances as he goes of the rural life of the proprietors of the soil.

  44. It is enough that I say he still lives, and the correctness of the portrait may easily be tested by any traveller Rhinewards; but I prefer giving him a chapter to himself.

  45. As soon as it hears or sees a man, it rouses itself by shaking its tail, which makes a rattling noise that may be heard at several paces distance, and gives warning to the traveller to be upon his guard.

  46. It is proper to observe that in those paths the bear does not pique himself upon politeness, and will yield the way to nobody; therefore it is prudent in a traveller not to fall out with him for such a trifling affair.

  47. But except those that have received their names from some nation of Indians who inhabit their banks, there are very few of their names we can be well assured of, each traveller giving them different appellations.

  48. A commercial traveller often learns to speak Italian in three weeks, and yet never really knows the language; Samuel Brohl had gained a superficial knowledge of Mlle.

  49. The next day the traveller was asked how she had slept.

  50. I remember long ago--she was ten years old--I told her the story of an unfortunate traveller besieged in a forest by an army of wolves.

  51. Why, of the traveller who sat opposite me.

  52. It will be so short, that it will require only four hours to reach the port; and the traveller will be able to go and return in the same day from the coast to the valleys of Aragua.

  53. When the traveller has passed the Great Cataracts, he feels as if he were in a new world, and had overstepped the barriers which nature seems to have raised between the civilized countries of the coast and the savage and unknown interior.

  54. Accustomed to the aspect of rocks, and to the shade of valleys, the traveller beholds with astonishment these savannahs without trees, these immense plains, which seem to ascend to the horizon.

  55. He has expressed a wish that some traveller would examine the milk of the papaw-tree just as it flows from the stem or the fruit.

  56. A traveller runs no risk of being attacked or pursued, as we often were in our excursions on the back of the Cordilleras, where the climate is rude, the aspect of the country more wild, and food less abundant.

  57. Occupied continually by the present, in a country where the traveller is tempted to regard human society as a new institution, he is more powerfully interested by remembrances of times past.

  58. The savage of the Orinoco appeared to us to be as hideous as the savage of the Mississippi, described by that philosophical traveller Volney, who so well knew how to paint man in different climates.

  59. Such is the character of the landscape discovered from the top of the mountain of Manimi, which no traveller has yet described.

  60. The jaguars are fond of retiring to deserted ruins, and I believe it is more prudent in general for a solitary traveller to encamp in the open air, between two fires, than to seek shelter in uninhabited huts.

  61. From this spot the traveller may bid farewell to repose.

  62. The river losing itself by its inundations in the forests, and its real banks being unseen, the traveller can venture to land only where a rock or a small table-land rises above the water.

  63. Very lately a traveller was surprised to see the natives playing on the violin, the violoncello, the triangle, the guitar, and the flute.

  64. A little below that island, in a spot where there are a great number of orange-trees now growing wild, the traveller is shown a small rock, two hundred feet high, with a cavern called by the missionaries the Glorieta de Cocuy.

  65. It was I who had chosen the path of the rivers; and the danger of my fellow-traveller presented itself to my mind as the fatal consequence of this imprudent choice.

  66. A son of Governor Desha, was arrested on a charge of having robbed and murdered a traveller the year before; was tried and found guilty by two different juries.

  67. Besides our company, there was only a single traveller in the stage, a Mr. Riley, from Cincinnati, and a native of Ireland.

  68. The traveller is jolted in a barbarous manner, and still makes but little progress; the heat and the dust of this day were almost intolerable.

  69. An old Traveller is sitting on a bench, reading a book.

  70. A Peasant, the master of the hut, just home from his work, sits down to supper and asks the Traveller to share it.

  71. English traveller of the nineteenth century, best known by his book, "The Naturalist in Nicaragua.

  72. Her husband was far away when it happened: he had been a great traveller before his marriage, and latterly his matrimonial relations with his wife had been so unsatisfactory that virtual separation had ensued.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traveller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrival; fare; migrant; passenger; seller; sightseer; tourist