"Journeyer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... group of people on the sandbar, the journeyer, who was a woman, took the sweeps of her boat and began to work over ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... starlit vault to the piping of the Spirit of the North. The hush of the Silent Land was only broken by the cries which came up from the dark valleys and darker forests. And the lonely giant, Jean Leblaude, slept the light slumber of the journeyer in the wild; the slumber that sees and hears when danger is abroad, and yet rests the body. He dreamed not, though all his schemes had gone awry, for ...
— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum
... on the sandbar, the journeyer, who was a woman, took the sweeps of her boat and began ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... procure the supply of the unwholesome pabulum, without which he could not continue to exist, he launched into a perilous ocean of heterodoxy and extravagance, and made shipwreck of his faith. His originality formed but the crooked wanderings of a journeyer who had forsaken the right way, and lost himself in the mazes of a doleful wilderness. Not such the originality of the higher order of minds; not such, for instance, the originality of a Newton, of whom it has been well said by a distinguished French critic, that 'what province ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... words, when they both descended through the earth with a rapidity which took away Halbert's breath and every other sensation, saving that of being hurried on with the utmost velocity. At length they stopped with a shock so sudden, that the mortal journeyer through this unknown space must have been thrown down with violence, had he not been upheld by ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott |
