Traversed

Examples

• With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I was on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road I have traversed since! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the walls. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The distance that they had to go was very short, but he was at his building work again before the carriage had half traversed it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• By the periodical assistance of the monsoons, they traversed the ocean in about forty days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Scarce half a dozen chambers had I traversed before I came upon the theatre of a fierce struggle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It had traversed a distance of one thousand feet i n twenty-seven seconds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We traversed the street called Straight a good way, and then turned off and called at the reputed house of Ananias. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the 18th century Smeaton devised the horizontal lengthened cylindrical boiler traversed by a flue. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We had traversed London from Hyde Park even to where we now were in the Minories, and had met no person, heard no voice nor footstep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The half mile to the rectory was soon traversed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My soul was in tumults; I traversed the streets with eager rapidity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The scout-master arrived after a brief delay, during which John traversed the apartment with, unequal and disordered steps. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Bradley then turned to retrace his steps, and by-and-by struck off through little-traversed ways, and by-and-by reached school and home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We shut out from our thoughts the present, and withdrew our eyes from the dreary landscape we traversed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Holmes paused irresolute, and then he glanced back at the road which he had just traversed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We traversed but one side of the square, however, and at the end of it she stopped, and put her candle down and opened a door. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Two roads were traversed by the troops in this move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• How far we traversed the tunnel in this manner I do not know, but presently we came to an obstruction which blocked our further progress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• These traversed the wood separating us, without escort, and directed him to push forward; but he did not come. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I traversed the streets, without any clear conception of where I was, or what I was doing. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The well-remembered ground was soon traversed, and I came into the quiet streets, where every stone was a boy's book to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The tardy day did not appear until he had been on foot two hours, and had traversed a greater part of London from east to west. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Francine