excursionist

Example Sentences

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On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Ontario liquor stores actually opened, however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist."

From Time Magazine Archive

An excursion party has just arrived, but this occurs, sometimes, several times in a day,—for Nantasket is a Mecca to the excursionist.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various

And so I took advantage of the visit to Washington of two friends on business to see Washington hastily, as an excursionist pure and simple.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold

The South-Eastern Railway Company have laid their iron hand on Hythe, and its old-world stillness is already on Bank Holidays and other bleak periods of the passing year broken by the babble of the excursionist.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir