Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came. John Early scrambled down to the bottom of a little ravine, snarling and mumbling as voices and footfalls came closer. Finally, surrounded by defeat, he gave a cry. Cursing and weeping, he threw down his gun. Officers talked in soothing tones, and then, because he refused to walk, dragged John Early to a car in which he must begin the journey back to a hated house, full of despairing creatures, a sad asylum...
...good walker can walk 45 miles in about nine hours...
...city. On one spreads a castle fortress built during the Middle Ages. When the sun sets sombre behind it, a trumpet from the far crenelated wall sounds the night watch. The other hill is the Caperzinergerg (Hill of the Capuchin monks), up which winds a long, wide walk lined with shrines of the saints. Nearby lie salt mines, from which the town takes it name...
...Manhattan one R. C. Walton, newly arrived from England, inquired how best to reach Coney Island, famed pleasure beach. When advised to take the subway, he became elated at the prospect of a good walk...
...Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom he worships but thinks he loves. He is tempted on shipboard by Mrs. Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia, who announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only...