Travel Worn

Popular woodcuts and prints represented the wandering Jew with a walking stick, travel-worn, bearded, and poor. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They arrived here muddy, travel-worn, and exhausted, having moved faster than word of their approach could have been sent. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

As a boy, he regularly watched the steamboats threshing into view, offloading knots of travel-worn passengers whose dreams were bundled, along with their belongings, into a few threadbare carpetbags. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

A man in dirty, travel-worn clothes stood there, panting with fatigue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I held my staff in my left hand and rested my right on the travel-worn bag slung over my shoulder. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Silence had returned, thin and travel-worn, but smiling and no longer silent. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

His green gaze, framed by thick black lashes, flicked across her, and Mary was painfully aware of how travel-worn she must appear. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2010)

Even in such a travel-worn place as Paris he manages to find the guy who's making absinthe from 19th century equipment. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

Meanwhile the four women were stripping Regapisk of his travel-worn clothing and draping him in finespun, marvelously decorated kilts and robes. ❋ Larry Niven (2005)

In Zautzes 'study sat a thin, travel-worn man who was improving his morning with a cup of wine. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2005)

In the windows of the guesthouse lobby he caught a reflection of himself looking thin and travel-worn yet also, perhaps, a shade adventurous with his tan and wispy half beard. ❋ John Dalton (2004)