Jaunts

Once established, the ridge would provide a "natural" levee against tidal surges as well as a wooded habitat for migratory songbirds winging their way through the area on their seasonal jaunts north and south. ❋ Bill Chameides (2010)

On shorter jaunts on better-established routes, when only the crew was aboard, that opened plenty of facilities for odd passengers. ❋ M_francis (2009)

She worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertising agency, and varied her London social life with "jaunts" to Italy, where she had once lived and been engaged to an Italian who broke her heart but remained a lifelong friend. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The flow of visitors swelled when the Napoleonic wars stopped continental jaunts and the "Lakers" were much mocked: William Gilpin was immortalised by Rowlandson in 1812 as the over-eager pedant on his scrawny nag, sketching a lake, in The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque "I'll prose it here, I'll verse it there/And picturesque it everywhere". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although I realize the rest of the world probably does not, in fact, plan their office jaunts with quite so much precision, it certainly is worthwhile in this economy to consider how we can work more effectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During my many castle jaunts, I've never once seen a female magician. ❋ Laurenne Sala (2011)

Even jaunts to the grandparents, where we were made comfy and treated like royalty, disrupted Mr. F's routines, naps and night sleep -- leaving us more exhausted than before we left. ❋ Brian Gresko (2010)

While we Brits are represented by affable oaf HRH Prince Andrew farting about in business class on Trade Ambassador jaunts, House of Stark has Sean Bean Lord Eddard Stark festooned in 10 raggedy layers of leather and fox fur thundering about on a black charger, growling, "Winter is coming," then lopping off some poor serf's head with a big sword. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Their explorations do evoke sensawunda in the form of startling discoveries and some jaunts between dimensions, but I found some of the events to suffer from discontinuity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inventive outfitters around the country are making flight exciting again, offering amateurs zero-gravity rides, fighter-plane jaunts and even jet packs that make lack of leg room moot. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's meant to be a hub for Virgin Galactic's planned jaunts into suborbital space. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2011)

She would try to control her fear, but mostly on these jaunts she'd assert herself. ❋ James Claffey (2011)

Last week she hosted one of her early-AM jaunts in Central Park for Team AOL! ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

The only chains are on the bicycles of the many cyclists that come in for weekend jaunts from San Antonio and Austin, both about an hour (by car) away. ❋ Pam Grout (2010)

We move around every few weeks to a new destination (with the exception of the winter months when we stay in Bonita Springs, FL for several months in a row, with occasional jaunts on the weekends). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But inventive outfitters around the country are making flight exciting again, offering amateurs zero-gravity rides, fighter-plane jaunts and even jet packs that make lack of leg room moot. ❋ Unknown (2011)