Everything looked (as everything always does in all decent English inns) as if the travellers had been expected, and their comforts prepared for days beforehand.
The Church, as already shown, was the earliest innkeeper in those days when travellers travailed in difficulties and dangers; and semi-religious bodies often acted the same hospitable part.
They are the logical outcome of the times, the direct successors of the coaching and posting inns that originally came into existence to supply the wants, in food and lodging, of travellers set down at the places where the coaches stopped.
We can easily sympathise here with those travellers in search of the picturesque, for we have all met with the like strokes of Fate.
Hunger itself even was blunted," and the travellersleft those delicacies almost untouched.
This place was known to travellers as the Pass of the Wedge, because of its strange formation, resembling in shape some splitting instrument which forced two soaring mountain-backs apart.
Then, when the skin of Semiramis was tanned to a ruddy brown, and the steeds were lean and weary from their toil, the travellers neared the foothills of Hindu-Kush, to fall upon a grave mischance.
For a space the travellers journeyed swiftly, the woman smiling to herself, while Huzim pondered and spoke no word; yet, presently, he laid his hand upon her arm.
Like a cool, sweet dewdrop it seemed to lie in the core of a yellow leaf, and after a weary ride at quickened pace the travellers came upon the outposts of Boabdul's camp.
The circumstances just mentioned increased the general desire to know more of the travellers and of their merchandise.
The misfortune, however, of losing first one boat and then a second, in the deep and mighty stream, with the dread inspired in travellers by the repetition of such accidents, began to render his profession an uncertain one.
For several hours after leaving Lucerne, the journey of ourtravellers was successfully prosecuted.
Having proceeded in this manner for three or four miles, which uncertainty rendered doubly tedious, the travellers were at length engaged in a narrow path, running along the verge of a precipice.
Hence it naturally happened that, the passage from Alsace into Suabia being the most easy, the ferry was more used by those who were desirous of entering Germany, than by travellers who came in an opposite direction.
In the interval of a week, whilst the English travellers remained at Geierstein, meetings or diets were held, as well of the City Cantons of the Confederacy as of those of the Forest.
That is to say, thy vow of pilgrimage does not prevent thee from hiring thyself to wait upon travellers as their guide," replied Philipson.
I do not pretend to understand the customs of this country but I am yet to learn," I replied, "how three persons should be entitled to exclude all other travellers from the only place of shelter and refreshment for miles round.
If we would find examples of such travellers as Peter, we must go back to the times of a Pythagoras and an Anacharsis, and even they did not quit the command of a mighty empire, to go in search of instruction.
In the environs of the city are several villas or country-seats, which surprise all travellers by their magnificence.
He viewed man first in the savage state, preferring in this the positive accounts of voyagers and travellers to the vague myths of antiquity and the dreams of speculators on our pristine state.
Milestone after milestone glided by the wheels, and neither of the travellers broke the silence.
From the bounds of Dorset, and familiar to all habitual travellers on the south-western main line, comes the Nadder.
Travellers on the main line of the South-Western from London to Exeter must be familiar with its infant efforts if they have any sort of eye for a country.
His object was to open an easy communication with Italy by way of these mountains, that is, by the Simplon and the St. Bernard, where travellers were continually subject to exactions and vexations.
He seems to have intended to make the travellers pay according to the number and nature of their means of transport; or, in a word, to establish a tax upon the rich, and thus increase his popularity.
They often, also, stopped travellers on the roads, and compelled them to answer their questions.
The hyena inhabits the same portions of Asia and Africa as the marabou, and travellers give accounts of terrible contests between these two singular members of the animal kingdom.
Privileged travellers in the south-west have been shown a charter much older than the great English pledge of liberty.
They must have been numerous in the ninth century, for two Mohammedan travellers of that period describe a rebel, named Bae-choo, taking Canton by storm in A.
It is said bytravellers that many of the species bear edible fruit, resembling somewhat in taste the gooseberry.
He obtained royal subsidies, and gathered about him travellers and seamen whom he inspired to set forth on voyages of discovery.
The markets should be visited by travellers interested in the customs of the people.
Most English travellers reach Cordova by rail from Madrid or Seville.
Travellers of all nationalities since that time have praised the wonderful spell of the city.
The Indians in Northern New York had been won to our interest, by Sir John Johnson, of Johnson Hall, in the Mohawk Valley, and were more than formerly inclined to vigilance regarding travellers in those lonely regions.
Experienced travellers know that a country is not to be judged by its metropolis.
Leaving the Big Tree grove, the travellers made a farther ride of twenty-five miles through the Sierras to the Yosemite, the first view of which impressed them deeply.
As evening descended the travellersreached a cotton plantation, and hastened to take refuge from the rising cloud of mosquitoes.
Since his period many travellers have visited and studied these vast remains and described them in abundant detail.
Among travellers there have been few more ardent and enterprising than the woman from whose writings our present selection is made.
With some gayety of temper, with feelings of mutual good-will, and with a vivid taste for the majestic grandeur of these vast valleys of rivers, travellers easily support evils that become habitual.
On returning to the village we found our dinner nearly ready; bread and liquor we had brought with us, but the hunted fowl, new-laid eggs, and hot tortillas formed no bad meal for travellers sharp set by a mountain ride.
The wondrous tales of former travellers regarding the preparation of this urary have been rectified long ago.
The road, flanked by woods at this particular point, became darker and more gloomy, and the obscurity prevented the eyes of the silent travellers from questioning each other.
When the carriage came within range of these shadows a volley of musketry, the balls of which whistled above their heads, warned the travellers that the shadows were realities.
He appeared to be afraid of his fellow-travellers and to care very little about the Chouans.
The arch formed by the branches, and the great size of the trees protected the travellers from the weather, and the many difficulties of the first half of their way did not recur.
He turned his gray eyes from the driver to his fellow-travellers and showed them a pistol in his belt.
The combination of tall trees, sunken paths, and enclosed places, kept the soil in a state of humidity which wrapped the travellers in a mantle of ice.
Towards sunset the three travellers arrived safely at Saint-James, a little town which owes its name to the English, by whom it was built in the fourteenth century, during their occupation of Brittany.
When the three travellers had gone a few steps through a very narrow path a most surprising spectacle suddenly unfolded itself to Mademoiselle de Verneuil's eyes, and made her understand the obstinacy of her Chouan guide.
Accustomed to such scenes, the four Chouans looked at d'Orgemont, who was twisting and howling, so coolly that they seemed liketravellers watching before an inn fire till the roast meat was done enough to eat.
When the travellers were about three miles beyond Mayenne they heard a horseman riding after them with great rapidity.
I don't wonder the Republic distrusts a province where they knock their harvest from trees with poles, and shoot travellers from the ditches.
The travellers were more than glad to get back to their native land, and by the early summer were settled at Sagamore Hill, to begin there the beautiful family life which grew in richness up to the moment of my brother’s death.
The travellers were going by a somewhat long and irregular route, first up one of the great highways, then across to that spur of the mountains where they were to live.
It was late and dusky when the stage waggon transferred the travellers to Mr. Olyphant's carriage, which was waiting for them at a certain turn of the road.
That was only natural, as, in all probability, the travellerswere journey-weary.
In the course of the journey the Holy Travellers had to cross rivers and lakes; hence the later painters, to vary the subject, represented them as embarking in a boat, sometimes steered by an angel.
All the travellers in Mexico who have met with these intrepid warriors have wondered at their gallant and uniform bearing.
These are the dangers attending travellers in the swamps, but there are many others to be undergone in crossing lagoons, rivers, or small lakes.
The Navahoes, living in the neighbourhood of the Club Indians, have entirely disappeared; and, though late travellers have mentioned them in their works, there is not one of them living now.
At an early hour in the morning, in the midst of their trouble and anxiety, two travellers came to the gate, and requested entertainment.
The American travellers (even Mr Catlin, who is generally correct) have entirely mistaken the country inhabited by the Shoshones.
Both travellers tell us that they frequently met with his images, which were often placed on the tops of mountains.
We must not forget that Buddhism has disappeared from India proper, although it dominates in Ceylon and Burma, and although a few Buddhist travellers find their way back to the land of its origin and sojourn there.
Then in all the highways of the towns and villages throughout India he erected hospices, and stationed physicians there with medicines for travellers and the poor persons round about.
In point of fact they were often intermixed, and the changes thus brought about in Buddhism will become more evident by referring to the narratives of three well-known Buddhist travellers from China.
Travellers and mariners who have visited warmer climates give a similar account of the torments there inflicted by these little demons.
But it is not merely in travellers and popular observers that the want of a systematic knowledge of Entomology is so deplorable.
A great part of mankind take the same pains to be miserable that these travellers do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travellers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
