An old man of eighty-two, Monsieur Dulaurent of Quimper, thus traversesfour departments," in irons which strangle him.
I could only stop his communications by telling him to order horses for Lecco, pay the bill, and follow me, as I should stroll down the road and look at the caverns of rock which it traverses by the lake side.
The Moon, peculiar in her nearer neighbourhood, traverses in thirty days the space which it takes the Sun a year to journey over[783].
This letter traverses the same ground as Pliny's 'Historia Naturalis' viii.
Let the ship that traverses the seas not fear our harbours.
Pattie reaches at this point the fort of Black Canon, and traverses the southern bank of the canons of the Colorado for their entire length, a distance which he accurately estimates at three hundred miles.
A great part of the river between these two points traverses {288} a savage country.
The route, laying across the head sources of the larger rivers of the Missouri and Arkansas, traverses but few rivers or creeks, that are not fordable.
St. Andrew traverses a land of continual darkness, the Vale of Walking Spirits, amid similar sounds of terror, much as the pilgrims of the Second Part of Bunyan's story traverse the Enchanted Ground.
Below Coria it traverses the series of broad fens known as Las Marismas, the greatest area of swamp in the Iberian Peninsula.
There are no land transport routes in the province except the Quito & Guayaquil railway, which traverses its eastern half.
A range of low hills, known as the Pabbi, traverses the northern angle of Gujrat.
The Madrid-Saragossa railway traverses the province for 70 m.
Behind the traverses the French had accumulated a great store of powder barrels, shells, and other combustibles.
Yet, in spite of that fact, the trade that sweeps over the Pacific is but small in comparison with that which traverses the Atlantic.
This traverses in a general way the ground covered by the Library Association resolutions and makes recommendations of much moment and gravity.
During the night he traverses his dominions; and, as a rule, he retires to his den as soon as the sun is fairly above the horizon.
In its upper course it traverses a higher plateau, whence, after passing the town of Landeshut, it descends through a narrow and fertile valley to Kupferberg.
These troops were ordered to move along on the traverses and bomb-proofs, and to plunge their concentrated fire over the stronghold.
The tables were now singularly turned; the assailants had become the assailed and they held a fort within the fort, and were protected by the traverses and gun chambers, behind which they fought.
Antelope hills), traverses this territory to about long.
It was practically impassable, even afoot, until a way was hewn and blasted for the railroad which now traverses its whole length.
Dallas, thentraverses Polk and Hickory, and in Benton falls into the bight of the bend of the Osage herein mentioned.
The South Platte traverses South Park, and the North Platte, North Park, to seek the plains through other mountains than those in which they respectively head.
Oklahoma again, traverses this Territory, and joins the Arkansaw between the Osage and Creek countries, at a certain point on the line between Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
Where the road traverses it, it is at least 150 yards wide, and has a guard of dragoons stationed on its banks.
The axle, D, of the intermediate wheels does not revolve with them, but is capable of rising and descending in the elongated aperture that traverses the frames, B.
For the same intensity of current that traverses the wire, the temperature of the latter might be made to vary by diminishing or increasing its diameter.
He plunges in the water, and traverses the lakes in search of water-fowl and their eggs: and the only enemy he has to dread in the desart and cold countries, is the glutton.
We have an example of this intrepidity in the lion, who never turns his back on man, at least till he has tried his strength; so the glutton traverses the snow, in his own desart climate, in perfect security.
Traverses the same ground as the larger work above; but besides condensation, most of the quotations and nearly all the references to authorities are omitted in this book.
The Danube, issuing from Mount Abnoba, traverses several countries and finally falls into the Euxine.
He traverses mountains and valleys with aimless speed, writing with footprints his sorrows, that his spirit may free herself, and he become a man.
Upon this store of mellow wood the different factories draw; and the railway which traverses every portion of it speedily conveys the raw material to the benches of the workmen.
This formidable instrument traverses a space of 30 feet, and is thus enabled to fix its teeth upon the log at whatever part of the entrance it may chance to lie.
There are two foot trails leading to the summit, each of which in places traverses abrupt slopes of sandstone where holes have been pecked into the rock to furnish foot and hand holds.
The road for 30 or 40 miles before reaching this point traverses the eastern portion of the great plateau whose broken margin, farther west, furnishes the abrupt mesa-tongues upon which the villages are built.
A small room on the east side, near the brink of the arroyo that traverses the ruin from east to west, was completely cleared out, exposing its fireplace, the stone paving of its floor, and other details of construction.
A jetty, or tongue of land that runs into the edge of the forest, traverses the marsh through its whole length.
At night a huge lantern traverses on, and is hoisted to nearly the top of, the same mast.
The Hyderabad-Godavari railway (opened in 1901) traverses a rich cotton country, and cotton presses have been erected along the line.
The characteristic feature of these alluvial deltas is that the river traverses them, not in a single channel, but in two or many bifurcating branches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traverses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
