What is "excursionist"

Usage examples of "excursionist".

There was a large enclosed yard in front of the hotel, and this was filled with groups of villagers waiting to see the diligences arrive, or to hire themselves to excursionists for the morrow.

The White Lamb, haven of excursionists, was closed, shuttered, boarded.

It was a favorite spot for excursionists who wanted a change from the water route, there being a sort of summer resort and picnic ground at one end of this valley.

Two carriages and a cab conveyed the excursionists, as they merrily called themselves, to the terminus.

An excursion is always resented by the regular occupants of a summer resort, who look down upon the excursionists, while they condescend to be amused by them.

Long Branch and its adjuncts were planned for New York excursionists who are content with the ocean and the salt air, and do not care much for the picturesque.

Island Wanderer, with the other excursionists, among the isles of the blest.

The cog-wheel railway is able to transport a large number of excursionists to the top of the mountain in the course of the morning.

The excursionists by-and-by went away out of the clouds, gliding breathlessly down the rails.

I thought it very pretty, but I do not believe such a thing could have been seen on OUR beach, which is safe from all excursionists, and sacred to the cottage and hotel life of the Port.

Trains came, crowded with excursionists returning to Manchester, Birmingham, and London.

It is only necessary, however, to explain to the public that the travelers are not gormandizers of scenery, and were willing to leave some portions of the State to the curiosity of future excursionists.

They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night.