Word Finder - journey

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A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

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Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

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my journey of dealing with grief

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A day.

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A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.

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A day's work.

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The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.

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(collective) A group of giraffes.

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To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

It would be a long journey and a dangerous one.

Throughout his journey he felt like a schoolboy on holiday.

Every year Santa Claus takes a journey over the world in a sleigh drawn by a strong and rapid steed called "Rudolph."

Her own journey to reach this point hadn't been easy.

After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and especially after having dined, Bolkonski felt that he could not take in the full significance of the words he heard.

And so they set out on their journey to Exeter.

Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept till ten o'clock.

The results of his work at Babylon appeared first in the Vienna serial Mines de l'orient, and in 1815 in England, under the title Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811.

The final leg of the journey was a long dirt road that climbed first through a grove of fir followed by an unbroken forest of hard­wood just beginning to bud.

From "Greek Heroes" to the Iliad was no day's journey, nor was it altogether pleasant.

When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again.

After receiving the crown in Rome, he died at Buonconvento, a little walled town south of Siena, on his backward journey in 1313.

It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him.

A valuable extension of geographical knowledge had been gained by this circuitous journey of more than Boo m.

With a resigned sigh, he agreed to attempt this journey I was begging him to take.

Kelli's gaze grew haunted, and Lana couldn't imagine what she'd seen during her journey from Georgia to the small town of Randolph.

He was accompanied throughout his journey by his mistress, the Finnish girl Afrosina.

He shall visit the sick and those returned from a journey, and attend funerals.

He successfully accomplished his journey, but had to report that there was no practicable route for cattle between the two districts.

There was still no improvement in the countess' health, but it was impossible to defer the journey to Moscow any longer.

No, she didn't think beyond the day her journey was over.

His journey ranks almost with Forrest's in the importance of its results and the success with which the appalling difficulties of the journey were overcome.

Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his friend Bolkonski, whom he had not seen for two years.

After that journey to Ryazan he found the country dull; his former pursuits no longer interested him, and often when sitting alone in his study he got up, went to the mirror, and gazed a long time at his own face.

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Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pavlovna very naturally asked Boris to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he found the Prussian army.

The court might go a journey to view the property and even take with them the sacred symbols on which oath was made.

She asked him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in the state of the Prussian army.

Jacques was the first outcome of the journey to Italy, and in precision and splendour of style it marks a distinct progress.

Though suffering from illness, he at once set out on the journey; finding his strength failing on the way, he was carried to the Cistercian monastery of Fossa Nuova, in the diocese of Terracina, where, after a lingering illness of seven weeks, he died on the 7th of March 1274.

He had been absent from Argentina on a journey to Europe, and on his return in April 1891, a popular reception was given to him at which 50,000 persons attended.

He marched into the station several journey.

The fairies promised obedience and soon started on their journey, dragging the great glass jars and vases along, as well as they could, and now and then grumbling a little at having such hard work to do, for they were idle fairies, and liked play better than work.

When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind.

The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits and way of life.

Without replying either to his wife or his mother-in-law, Pierre late one night prepared for a journey and started for Moscow to see Joseph Alexeevich.

By the end of the space journey, she was convinced he'd want nothing to do with her and desperate to see him.

For it is impossible to accept the theory of one writer that they sailed or rowed round the continent - a journey requiring enormous maritime skill, which, according to the theory, they must have promptly lost.

Skirting the low shores of this gulf, all the way round its upper half to the Roper, Leichhardt crossed Arnheim Land to the Alligator river, which he descended to the western shore of the peninsula, and arrived at Port Victoria, otherwise Port Essington, after a journey of 3000 m., performed within a year and three months.

At nearly the same time Hayton, king of Armenia, made a journey to Karakorum in 1254, by a route far to the north of that followed by Carpini and Rubruquis.

After a journey into Spain he set out once more for Central Africa in 1352, and reached Timbuktu and the Niger, returning to Fez in 1353.

The inclusive speed over a long journey is of course a different thing from the average running speed, on account of the time consumed in intermediate stops; the fewer the stops the more easily is the inclusive speed increased, - hence the advantage of the non-stop runs of 150 and zoo m.

At Pirna the Elbe leaves behind it the stress and turmoil of the Saxon Switzerland, rolls through Dresden, with its noble river terraces, and finally, beyond Meissen, enters on its long journey across the North German plain, touching Torgau, Wittenberg, Magdeburg, Wittenberge, Hamburg, Harburg and Altona on the way, and gathering into itself the waters of the Mulde and Saale from the left, and those of the Schwarze Elster, Havel and Elde from the right.

The journey between Algiers and Paris, from which it is distant 1031 miles, is accomplished in about forty-five hours.

One of their most distinguished explorers was Samuel Champlain, a captain in the navy, French North who, after a remarkable journey through Mexico and the America.

The next journey was that of Fathers Grueber and Dorville about 1660, who succeeded in passing from China, through Tibet, into India.

He also, on a journey home from Italy, deciphered in a palimpsest at St Gall the fragments of Flavius Merobaudes, a Roman poet of the 5th century.

That she had not heard from Prince Andrew himself, Princess Mary attributed to his being too weak to write or to his considering the long journey too hard and too dangerous for her and his son.

By highway, the journey was fifty miles—ten miles north to Ridgway, then westerly to Placerville and then back toward the southeast, all necessary to circumnavigate fourteen-thousand foot Mount Sneffles and its towering neighbors.

The trip between Baltimore and Norfolk was in a much small­er aircraft than the first leg of the journey.