Four other of our shipmates had also joined themselves into a digging-party, and when they heard of our intended departure, proposed travelling up together and separating on our arrival.
The rain and bad roads made travelling so very wearisome, that before we had proceeded far it was unanimously agreed that we should halt and pitch our first encampment.
Fifteen persons were stopped during the same afternoon whilst travellingon the highway between Melbourne and St. Kilda.
The morning was rather cloudy, which made our pedestrian mode of travelling not so fatiguing as it might have been, had the sun in true colonial strength been shining upon us.
The plain across which they were travelling was a flat, broken only by slight swells, and a tree here and there; and the young Hardys wondered not a little how Lopez, who acted as guide, knew the direction he was to take.
How far she was to be taken she could not say, but she felt sure that in a week's travelling her friends would make up for the day lost at starting.
Fortunately, the three horses were used totravelling together, so there was no hitch here, and the speed made by all three was very good.
At a distance up the highway upon which Major Deck and the others were travelling was a grove of walnut trees, and as soon as this grove was reached the young commander of the forces called a halt.
He had been travelling in Italy, and had brought home a portfolio of sketches remarkable alike for their fidelity and purity.
A man who really loves travelling would as soon consent to pack a day of such happiness into an hour of railroad, as one who loved eating would agree, if it were possible, to concentrate his dinner into a pill.
The rank of the Count, by the way, did not in any way interfere with his being a right good travelling companion.
Count Richard of Roedorn, Germany, a young man travelling for pleasure, and bound for the same camp, had several decks of cards, and had learned the Yankee game of poker.
It is well-nigh impossible to get within half a mile of the sentinels by travelling down wind--some say they can smell a party of hunters that is a full mile away, and even more up wind.
Or, that gentleman yonder with his eye tied up in a wet handkerchief, do you suppose he's travelling for pleasure?
I even imagine that ideal reader for whom one writes as yawning over these barren details with the life-like weariness of an actual travelling companion of theirs.
He's been travelling pretty free, and he's got the notion he's driving, maybe.
Well, I don't believe they thought we ought to be travelling about alone, quite, at our age.
In the talk which this friendly overture led to between them he explained that he was a railway architect, employed by the government on that line of road, and was travelling officially.
We might imagine coming upon our former selves over there, and travelling round with them--a wedding journey 'en partie carree'.
He had been prevented from taking it; but, as Miles was travelling alone, he foresaw a better chance of success if he should follow on his track.
From time to time he looked about him anxiously, in the hope of seeing the approach of one of his travelling companions.
When travelling in the Mission steam-launch she would bury her head in her hands and cry out in fear if the engine gave a screech or if the vessel bumped on a sandbank.
There should be, she thought, an office of itinerating or travelling missionary permanently attached to the Mission.
Once she was travelling on foot, and had four miles of hill-road to go, and was feeling very weary and depressed at the magnitude of the work and her own weakness, when a letter was handed to her.
It would be travelling beyond my proper limits here to discuss how far organic beings in a state of nature are definitely modified by changed conditions.
And here we are led to face a great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province.
On reaching the British Isles it is broken up, one wave-crest travelling up the English Channel, while another flows round Scotland and then southwards into the North Sea.
The members of this group move very freely, travelling about by means of a broad, flattened foot.
Thus the Eel (Anguilla vulgaris), in the remarkable migrations for which it is noted, is capable of travelling over dry land for considerable distances in search of suitable homes.
In England, the travelling was bad enough; in Scotland, it was far worse.
Just look at him as he is travelling up to the Diet of Worms.
Perhaps he would take to travelling abroad some day, and that would enlarge his mind and rouse him a bit.
Thus, when travelling in Italy, the visual impression answering to a ruined temple or a bareheaded friar is construed much more rapidly than it would be elsewhere, because of the attitude of mind due to the surrounding circumstances.
Thus, sounds really travelling from a point in front of the head will appear to come from behind it.
Thus an aeroplane travelling eighty miles an hour with a twenty-mile breeze istravelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour in reference to the ground.
Just before alighting the pilot must make a quick upward turn, so that at the moment of contact the machine may betravelling parallel with the ground.
Both show that the machine is travelling well above the minimum safety speed.
Therefore she had decided they were travelling westwards.
The patrol boat was less than four hundred yards away, and travelling at a great pace.
They were travellingvery fast, and a great white wake was thrown up behind them.
In San Sebastian, there is a Jew named Abraham Ger, who calls himself Juan Gilles, under Dutch pay; he works much mischief to Spain and keeps a man named Rafael Mendez, who is constantly travelling back and forth.
In January, 1697, Abraham RodrÃguez, travelling from France to Portugal under the name of Antonio Mazedo, was arrested at Ledesma and brought to the tribunal of Valladolid.
These worked not only by compression but by travelling around the limbs, carrying away skin and flesh.
They pushed through without stopping to Rioseco, where they rested four days and then, hiring a guide, they traversed the mountains of Portugal, travelling only by night.
It was tried again repeatedly, in various savage laws to prevent Moriscos from travelling within prescribed distances from the sea, and from holding communication with the corsairs, but this naturally effected nothing.
I immediately mentioned my wishes of travelling to General Avitabili, who strongly advised me not to attempt leaving Peshawur in any novel direction, as the whole of his district was much disaffected.
Generally it is very barren, and after travelling over so much of the country I have yet seen only three parts of it decently cultivated.
If I can do something unparalleled in the travelling way I shall be content for a year or two at least.
To the fish of the various tracts I paid considerable attention, but owing to the difficulties of travelling and of climate, the collection has suffered severely.
Evening was coming on apace; and Blangy was still ten or twelve miles distant; but his horse was exhausted with long travelling and little food, and nothing would urge him into speed.
The man might be a stranger, travelling hurriedly through the Dead Lands, or he might be one of the men from Cameron-Dam Camp.
He held to his staggering run for an hour, seeking bare spots in the timber, travelling on top of windfalls when he found them, hiding his trail in uncanny fashion, before his body grew warm enough to thaw the icy bandages.
The speck was too large to be a single animal and too small to be a pack of travelling caribou.
Men travelling in the direction of the settlements bent their steps toward Fifty Mile, even though it lay far out of their course.
I think there is trouble travelling as trail-fellow with this man.
The man was travelling in strange fashion, running beside an apparently empty sled, and whipping his dogs along.
Men travelling in the opposite direction passed the news to all whom they bespoke.
He hired Small Eyes and Broken Wing of our tribe to haul the food to his camp, a day's travelling each way, so he said.
Two, three, four days' travelling and he would strike the railroad.
My late husband dreamt a certain curious dream about his brother, Mr. Ralph Holden, who was at that time travelling in the interior of Africa.
He said 'I have been travelling all night, and cannot call again.
I was travelling about, a day or two passed, and when Sunday came I found myself in a church where some relatives were worshipping.
This thought occurred to me when he said he had been travelling all night.
Travelling by Edinburgh and Berwick, they visited Earl Grey at Howick.
There were still long leagues to drive, posting, before Coburg could be reached, and the party started from Mayence in two travelling carriages as early as seven o'clock next morning.
Her Majesty was to try a mode of travellingnew to her.
Twelve days later the Queen left with Princess Beatrice and, travelling by Cherbourg and Paris, reached Lake Maggiore on the 28th.
On the 27th of August the Court left for Balmoral, travelling for the most part by the Great Northern Railway, but not, as now, making a rapid night and day journey.
In the end of the month the Queen, travelling incognito as Countess of Kent, having crossed to Cherbourg, arrived at Baden-Baden accompanied by Princess Beatrice.
Hardt was the confidential messenger who passed between the Emperor William and Alexandra Feodorovna, and nowadays he was travelling to and fro to Germany always, notwithstanding that Russia was at war with her neighbour.
Hence we were travelling a day ahead of the Empress.
No; travelling is very easy between Petrograd and Berlin," he replied affably; and then he introduced me.
He himself was unable, however, to place the exact locality in which he was travelling at the time of the accident, otherwise we should not have had that extremely interesting advertisement which Mr. Essington read out this evening.
Travelling about with Mr. Maverick Narkom in a caravan--a caravan that can't cover five miles of country in the time a train or a motor car is able to get over fifty!
To go from Bergen to Copenhagen was like travelling from Abdera to Athens, and to find a species of Sophocles in J.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
