Route

Examples

• But if we take this route, all we do must be done whilst the rations we start with hold out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In talking over their route the evening before, Mrs. Gardiner expressed an inclination to see the place again. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In detaching such a force, the brigade of the cavalry now en route from Washington via Rockville may be taken into account. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Rotten Row means 'Route de Roi', or the king's way, but now it's more like a riding school than anything else. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They would never suspect that we would try for that distant waterway, I answered, and that is why I think that it is the best route for our escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Across it Egypt, and whatever power was ascendant in the north, fought for empire; against its people they fought for a trade route. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He has been telegraphed to, to know whether he could go, and, if so, which of the several routes he would select. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They are all, however, but different routes leading to the same goal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The United States, not unmindful of the advantages of an Isthmian Canal, had from time to time, made surveys of the various routes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our numbers were to move forward in separate parties, and to go by different routes, all to unite at last at Paris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The plate is next subjected to the mechanical operation of routing out or cutting away the undesirable portions by a routing machine, seen in Fig. 214. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The view which their hurried routing disclosed filled me with apprehension and with rage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The engraver or finisher then takes charge of it, preparing the engraving for the routing department, where the superfluous metal is removed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And then swiftly he dispatched his aides-de-camp to command the horse to fall on the routed enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here another battle ensued, our men dismounting and fighting on foot, in which the Confederates were again routed and driven in great disorder. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Brunswickers were routed and had fled--their Duke was killed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• By very skilful manoeuvres and boldness of attack he completely routed the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Crawley heavy cavalry was maddened by defeat, and routed every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At two in the morning they routed us out of bed--another piece of unwarranted cruelty--another stupid effort of our dragoman to get ahead of a rival. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He perceived that she had spoken of business to Beaufort simply to get rid of him; and to have routed Beaufort was something of a triumph. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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