One of the favourite excursions from modern Syracuse takes the traveller in a boat over the sandy bar of the Anapus, beneath the old bridge which joined the Helorine road to the city, and up the river to its junction with the Cyane.
Later in the year the heat is often intense all through the middle of the day, and the young men who make their excursions on foot start at dawn, so that they may arrive at a resting place by ten or eleven.
There are a number of one-day excursions from Tokyo for cars, and still more one- and two-day trips for motorcycles.
His only excursions outside the walls of his palace were made in a large norimono, or palanquin, borne by fourteen men, in which, behind the latticed windows, he was able to catch glimpses of the outer world while himself invisible.
Again in the autumn, we went on excursions to enjoy the charming colours of the maples.
A Student unacquainted with the attempts of former adventurers is always apt to overrate his own abilities; to mistake the most trifling excursions for discoveries of moment, and every coast new to him for a new-found country.
Have you made many excursions into the great outer world?
He had not been making little excursions up and down unknown paths.
In Germany, such excursionswould be suspicious in the extreme.
They go out in yachts on the stormy channel and extend their excursions to the coasts of Italy and the West Indian islands.
At night he would ruin the toughest horses trying to get back from his secret excursions before dawn; and in his den behind closed shutters-- At this point Maggie lost her faculty of speech.
Nevertheless she did not refuse Lilly two excursions a week to early mass, which was all Lilly had dared hope for.
In the meantime Edith remained in charge as nurse, while Mr Vane and Ron varied the monotony of life in the Glen by making short excursions of two or three days' duration to places of interest in the neighbourhood.
One reason why he made this rule was to stimulate the people on the frontiers to make hostile excursions among their neighbors, in order to supply themselves and the country generally with slaves.
We met this first at Pasajes, on one of the excursions arranged for our pleasure by the overflow goodness of that missionary garrison.
Our brief stay did not admit of a tithe of the excursions they had in mind for us, but my comrade achieved a trip to Santillana del Mar, birthplace of the doughty Gil Blas.
The miserable situation of those who returned to the settlement, would, it was believed, most effectually prevent any more excursions of the like nature.
In the afternoon he began to organise excursions and amusements with the help of Miss Anderson.
One could quite imagine an animated court life (small court) there, with music, and riding, and excursions on the river.
He said there were beautiful excursions to be made from Turin, and asked us if we had seen anything.
They told us in one of the shops (where as a true American I was asking questions, eager for information) that there were several interesting excursions to be made in the neighbourhood.
Years ago in Rome when we used to make long excursions riding to Vei or Ostia, the gentlemen of the party always carried good big whips to keep them off.
Once or twice one heard them say "la Regina" evidently thinking it was Queen Margherita, who loves her auto, and makes long country excursions in it.
Exeter may be made a centre for ecclesiological excursions of no ordinary interest.
North of Plymouth interesting excursions may be made to the Dewerstone, perhaps the finest bit of rock scenery on Dartmoor, or rather at its edge, where the so-called Plym bursts forth from its moorland cradle.
There is one thing that a visitor to Torquay is certain to carry away with him if he has made excursions on foot about it--some of its red soil.
Of the excursions in the neighbourhood of Ashburton to scenes of loveliness I will say but little.
A pleasant centre, whence delightful excursions may be made, and with an old-world aroma about it, as though preserved in pot-pourri.
One of the most interesting excursions that can be made from Okehampton is to Belstone and the Taw Marsh.
After that, as may be guessed, we walked every day in the forest, making longer and longer excursions as my strength came back to me, and the nearer parts grew familiar.
Our days we spent in hunting, or excursions of some kind, our evenings in long conversations, which impressed me with an ever-growing respect for my lord's powers.
These excursions at the same time afforded opportunities for hunting.
Agouties, kangaroos, and capybaras fled swiftly at their approach; and all this reminded the settlers of the first excursions they had made on their arrival at the island.
The road had been already partially cleared in their former excursions made from the corral to the west coast.
What besides facilitates these excursions in Autumn, or in the beginning of Winter, is, that all works in the fields are then at an end, or at least the hurry of them is over.
It was before the days of cheap excursions by rail, so that vans had to be found for the party; and Grey had discovered a benevolent remover of furniture in Paddington, who was ready to take them at a reasonable figure.
Soon she became more enterprising herself, and made little excursions into the copse, surmounting briers, and passing through tangled places like a Naiad, before he could be there to help her.
They liked better staying there than wandering about in the evening with their parents, whose excursions seemed to them somewhat aimless, and their pleasures insipid.
Mrs. Green would have let us have the gimcrackery very cheap for the summer months; and we could have made all sorts of nice little excursions and trips off and been twice as well as if we had spent the summer away.
Then she can be carried up the mountain from time to time, and when she is stronger she will enjoy these excursions far more than she would now.
The doctor came up to the hut every morning, and thence made excursions over the mountain.
Her presents she would send round later, as Fraulein Rottenmeier must first help her to pack them up; at that moment she was out on one of her excursions into the town which always kept her engaged for some time.
Grandmamma did not care to stay alone in Dorfli, and therefore decided to return to Ragatz, and thence to make excursions up the mountain from time to time.
It is evident that a mind capable of such excursions and contemplations as I have now supposed must experience enjoyments infinitely superior to those of the individual whose soul is enveloped in intellectual darkness.
During their whole stay in Halifax, however, the boys went off on few excursions by themselves.
His time was apparently fully occupied with boating and driving excursions and other pleasures of the conventional summer resort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excursions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
