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

In Wales also, and even in the Isle of Wight, there are perfect bowers of bliss of this description, still undesecrated by the excursionist.

From Some Private Views by Payn, James

The excursionist thinks of but little else during his stay there.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah

I shall live in hopes of going back some-day and seeing Billings properly—as a visiting Chamber of Commerce booster or a Rotary excursionist, or something equally sans reproche.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)