"I've no liking for foreign
tours. And take note: if there is an early stage of tuberculous process, of which we cannot be certain, a foreign
tour will be of no use.
The boasted "
tour of the world" was talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject were another Alabama claim.
But, before a wheel turns, listen to a brief preamble through the cardiaphone, which shall point out to you an object of interest on life's sightseeing
tour.
Her
tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every part of it would have been perfect.
The above everyday events had occurred, and a few weeks had passed, when on one fine morning, Parliament being over, the summer advanced, and all the good company in London about to quit that city for their annual
tour in search of pleasure or health, the Batavier steamboat left the Tower-stairs laden with a goodly company of English fugitives.
The University covered the left bank of the Seine, from the Tournelle to the
Tour de Nesle, points which correspond in the Paris of to-day, the one to the wine market, the other to the mint.
'And anyhow, I ought to have had the part in the first place instead of when the
tour's half over.
She told me that having a considerable taste for the Beauties of Nature, her curiosity to behold the delightful scenes it exhibited in that part of the World had been so much raised by Gilpin's
Tour to the Highlands, that she had prevailed on her Father to undertake a
Tour to Scotland and had persuaded Lady Dorothea to accompany them.
Malaria still festered in me and put me on my back in shivering delirium at the most unexpected moments, compelling me to cancel a double lecture
tour which had been arranged.
As a married woman," she proceeded, with the air of a matron of at least twenty years' standing, "I have been thinking the subject over; and I have arrived at the conclusion that a honey-moon which takes the form of a
tour on the Continent, is one of our national abuses which stands in need of reform.
Yes, I would find King Arthur's Round Table once more--I had already found it several times--and use it for a base of departure on an exploring
tour for my bed; if I could find my bed I could then find my water pitcher; I would quench my raging thirst and turn in.
"No; not this time at least; for I am in a hurry to continue our submarine
tour of the earth.