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The whole mountain system, range upon range, seemed to trend to the northwest, cutting athwart the course to the open country reported by La Perle. The effect was as if the mountains conspired to thrust back the traveler toward the west and the Yukon. Smoke wondered how many men in the past, approaching as he had approached, had been turned aside by that forbidding aspect.
Old Jane was now obliged to go to the toll-gate to attend to a traveler, but when she came back she took occasion to say a few more words. "It's hard on me, sir," she said, "at my age to make a change. I've lived at this house, and I've took toll at that gate ever since I was a girl, long before the captain came here, and I've been with him a long time.
A traveler going to New Zealand was asked by a friend if he would inquire, while there, as to the whereabouts of the friend's grandfather, Jeremiah Thompson. "Certainly," said the traveler, and wherever he went he asked for news of the ancestor, but without avail. One day he was introduced to a fine old Maori of advanced age.
It had been Bayard Taylor's boyhood ambition to become a great poet; but it seemed as if fate meant him for a great traveler. He was sorry that this was so: yet he was fond of travel, and never refused any opportunity to visit other lands. In 1849, when the California gold fever was at its height, he was sent by the Tribune to the Pacific Coast.
A traveler in Russia must consult the calendar before starting on a journey, if he would ascertain what provision he may, or may not, find among the people. Congour was the first town of importance, and has an unenviable reputation for its numerous thieves.
Norman, a traveler who visited the spot shortly afterward, thus describes the scene of ruin.
A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying "The little one is the best runner of the two." The Hound replied, "You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life." The Traveler and Fortune A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.
Traveler and student, much of a philosopher, more of a wit, and boon companion to any beggar with a pottle of ale, while the drink lasted, we might look askance at his dealings, but we liked his company passing well.
Here and there a dog barked, some lonely bird seeking shelter called to its mate, but of human beings there seemed to be no one in sight save the solitary traveler. Tavernake was in grievous straits. His clothes were caked with mud, his hair tossed with the wind, his cheeks pale, his eyes set with the despair of that fierce upheaval through which he had passed.
Sidney's ideas: The hotels would wire ahead to others of the Line for accommodations for the traveler; and a man known to the Line could get credit at any of its houses, by being registered on identifying cards. She decided to capture Mr. Sidney. She made plans. In the spring she took a mysterious two weeks' leave of absence and journeyed through New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.