Traveling

Examples

• Orders began to flow in, and Watt had his hands full in traveling about the country superintending the erection of his steam-engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Even in the neighborhood of the mines people soon grew used to seeing Puffing Billy, as the engine was called, traveling back and forth from the pit to the quay, and took it quite for granted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In connection with his calling he had an opportunity of traveling to the north of England and so extended the range of his obser vation, always exceptionally alert. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• All but Jack, who changed all other articles of his dress, but clung to his traveling pantaloons. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These parts are assembled on progressive traveling tracks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One often finds it inconvenient, when traveling, to obtain hot water whenever needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Greenough for a sewing machine having a double pointed needle with an eye in the middle, which needle was drawn through the work by pairs of traveling pincers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Early the following morning he set out, and, traveling rapidly, he came before midday to the clearing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• William Caxton, an English merchant, learned the new art while he was traveling in Germany, and when he returned home started a press at Westminster with a partner named Wynken de Worde. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The animals are driven into a catching pen at 1, where they are strung up by one leg, and secured to a traveling pulley on an overhead rail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They learn to love a ship just in time to change it for another, and they become attached to a pleasant traveling companion only to lose him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I shall have to do a deal of traveling before I come in sight of your Celestial City. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• No fact in electricity seems more marvelous than that the thousands of messages flashing along the wires overhead are likewise traveling through the ground beneath. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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