What is "travelled"

Usage examples of "travelled".

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?

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.

The baronet put his hand to his brow as his mind travelled into consequences.

I would have travelled a thousand miles for the adventures which a bounteous road that day spilled carelessly into my willing hands.

An inch-worm, perhaps, would be a better description, for it travelled in the same humpy way as that pleasing reptile.

They travelled overland to Mystic, Quebec, where Mamo had a cousin, the only person she knew from the old country.

The linguist and plant collector Augustus Margary survived toothache, rheumatism, pleurisy, and dysentery while sailing the Yangtze, only to be murdered when he completed his mission and travelled beyond Bhamo, in Burma.

While Merlion trusted her daughter to retain her virtue, she kept a careful eye on the maids who travelled with them.

They travelled in silence for five minutes or so while Sappha picked out the route, mispronouncing the names of the towns most abominably and then struggling to get them right when he corrected her.

So we started, Hans hanging to my stirrup and guiding me, for I knew well enough that although he had never travelled this road, his instinct for locality would not betray a coloured man, who can find his way across the pathless veld as surely as a buck or a bird of the air.

But although he went with the police in patrol cars on the moorland Penistone Road travelled by Brady and Hindley he was never able to identify the actual stopping place.

With the small and delicate humanoids who had been my playfellows, I had gathered the nuts and buds and trapped the small arboreal animals they used for food, taken my share at weaving clothing from the fibres of parasite plants cultivated on the stems, and in all those eight years I had set foot on the ground less than a dozen times, even though I had travelled for miles through the tree-roads high above the forest floor.

And every time we travel a distance in 3D space corresponding to the syntonic comma, we must have travelled once around the Harmonic Heptagon.

Well, so when you have travelled for days and days over an Eastern desert without meeting the likeness of a human being, and then at last see an English shooting-jacket and his servant come listlessly slouching along from out of the forward horizon, you stare at the wide unproportion between this slender company and the boundless plains of sand through which they are keeping their way.

We travelled all night and reached Lippstadt in the early morning, and in spite of the unseasonableness of the hour I ordered something to eat.