Travelled
['træv(ə)ld] or ['trævld]
Definition
(-) of Travel
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Examples
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My wife, said Defarge aloud, addressing Madame Defarge: I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jacques. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the middle of the day he sat under a large tree in front of the house facing a well-travelled road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Before it had set in dark on the night of his condemnation, he had travelled thus far on his last way. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Countess of Windsor travelled with her son. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- One as know'd his servant see 'em there, all three, and told me how they travelled, and where they was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nothing could more dearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I generally rested during the day, and travelled only when I was secured by night from the view of man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Did Henry tell me you had travelled with them? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We travelled very slowly all night, and did not get into Yarmouth before nine or ten o'clock in the morning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Having travelled around the world, I had cultivated an indifference to any special difficulties of that kind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We travelled at the time of the vintage, and heard the song of the labourers, as we glided down the stream. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We travelled about the country, and had no fixed place to live in. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I travelled with a man lately who had just left you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Who could I find capable of travelling to London by the train she travelled by, and of privately seeing her home? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He travelled four hundred miles to the remote oasis of the oracle of Ammon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early historians Hecat?us and Herodotus travelled widely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You have travelled with them, and I believe you know what a bond there is among them, extending even beyond this present life. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Moving in the enemy's country he travelled with a wagon train to carry his provisions and munitions of war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Should they send men and lanterns in every direction by which they could be supposed likely to have travelled home? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What a road he has travelled; and sits now, about half-past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore afflicted; ill of Revolution Fever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her eyes travelled despairingly about the room--they lit on the bell, and she remembered that help was in call. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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