Gulliver's forte

Usage examples of travel.

On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.

Caer Donn, with propaganda to the effect that the Terrans were denying them and all Darkover the benefits of modern technologyweather control, space travel, modern agronomic methods, labor saving devices, scientific instruments, efficient fire-fighting equipment, good roads, etc.

Traveling at night to avoid the daytime temperatures reaching 135 degrees, they passed through the gap between the chott and the sea across the alluvium and sand dunes to Kebili.

And things could only get worse during an ambulance ride, especially if that ambulance had to travel three miles to get to the nearest C-section room.

I think he might have dared to declare the wine unfit and called for a different amphora to be broached had he and I not been very thirsty from traveling.

See CIA analytic report, Al Qaeda Travel Issues, CTC 2004-40002H, Jan.

Ruth did not need the doctors in the antenatal clinic to which she travelled once a fortnight on innumerable buses, to tell her that her baby was fit and well, but what about its mental state - its obstinacy?

Most of the immense, ugly structure, which had always looked like the box some other building had been shipped in, was now occupied only by tax accountants, 3V producers, whores, mosquitoes, anthologists, brokers, blimp-race betting agencies, public-relations firms, travel agents, and other telephone-booth Indians, plus hordes and torrents of plague-bearing brown rats and their starving fleas.

Nasal swabs are typically used to determine how far spores have traveled in a specific room or building where the presence of anthrax is suspected or has already been established by environmental sampling.

His eyes traveled the room, a general of the army appraising his troops before a perilous operation.

He travelled by jeep through an invariable terrain of architectonic vegetation where no wind lifted the fronds of palms as ponderous as if they had been sculpted out of viridian gravity at the beginning of time and then abandoned, whose trunks were so heavy they did not seem to rise into the air but, instead, drew the oppressive sky down upon the forest like a coverlid of burnished metal.

As a travel writer I had specialized in the artistry of my own escape from what was most intimately mine.

Was it to one of the factories of Angola, and would it be an affair of a few halting-places only, or would this convoy travel for hundreds of miles still, across Central Africa?

The smoked fish I could smell was far more appetizing than the travel bread in my pack.

An archpriest, His Sanctity Krastokles, is traveling hither with rich gifts and the blessing of Styphon.