A similar apparatus to the helmet dive, again excursionists can enjoy underwater life without getting hair wet and while wearing glasses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Perhaps the only thing (besides, of course, our common mortality) which we have in common with the excursionists is our love of the trolley-line. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
It would be mortified to hear the talk of the excursionists, which is more about the quality of the tables and the beds, and the rapidity with which the "whole thing can be done," than about the beauty and the sublimity of nature. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
No one, from emperors to excursionists, likes to be naked in public. ❋ John Feffer (2010)
No water channel has been so significant as Persian Gulf to the geologists, archaeologists, geographer, merchants, politicians, excursionists, and scholars whether in past or in present. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all over the South-Western “lung”—Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth—at unnaturally early hours; but not a soul had anything more than vague hearsay to tell of. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
Coming home, a party of excursionists from Chertsey or Isleworth passed us singing and playing music. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
The sunday morning excursionists were out in force. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)
Reports said a group of youths, who had burnt tyres and blocked traffic in Bhaderwah town of Doda district during the bandh, pelted stones on a bus coming from Doda carrying excursionists to Jai. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thomas Cook ran tours from Yorkshire and the Midlands and in the the short period of the Exhibition he carried more than 150,000 excursionists to London and back. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A mysterious bosom it appeared, upon a damp, dark, Sunday night, dashed through in the train to the music of the whirling wheels, the panting of the engine, and the part-singing of hundreds of third-class excursionists, whose vocal efforts ❋ Unknown (2007)
The trip to Gravesend normally took less than ninety minutes and once there, many of the excursionists went on to one or the other of the tourist attractions, for Gravesend was becoming a popular resort town in the nineteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A favourite destination for London excursionists, John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-72, described it as a highly picturesque grounds of about 18 acres, constantly open for a small admission fee, and possessing a rich combination of attractions, variously natural and artificial. ❋ Unknown (2007)
By Tuesday evening the weather had turned “muggy” and tired but happy the excursionists boarded the steamer at Gravesend for the “moonlight” return to London. ❋ Unknown (2007)
