Trips
[trɪp]
Examples
- Furthermore, the vessels were enabled to double their number of productive trips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In one of his trips he passed into the country roads and came to a tollgate through which a frightened keeper hastily passed him without toll, hailing him as the devil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Western boats at that day did not make regular trips at stated times, but would stop anywhere, and for any length of time, for passengers or freight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Many trips were required, but at last all stood safely together again at the beginning of the end of our quest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As there were but two or three of these, the boats had to make a number of trips before the last of the troops were up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Father bought her once, in one of his trips to New Orleans, and brought her up as a present to mother. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The fellow would take the boat and my father's best gun and treat himself to little shooting trips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One of my longest trips away from home was the trip I took to Limmeridge to nurse a half-sister there, who was dying. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It made its first trip on the Hudson, from New York to Albany and return, in August, 1807, and subsequently made regular trips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Betimes he enjoyed himself in society and in trips to the counties. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Two more trips he made until he had quite a pile of material at hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He recognized me from the three trips that I had taken with him during my captivity among the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was for this reason that he had never enjoyed trips back and forth between the lines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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