expeditions

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Examples

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. Ranulph Fiennes

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. William Least Heat-Moon

Dear mother! Today a joyful notice. H. A. Lorentz has telegraphed me that the English expeditions have really proven the deflection of light at the sun. Albert Einstein

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions. Thomas Mann

...When he was on the eve of departure for one of his great expeditions the coachmaker said to him, "The carriage shall be at the door punctually at six o clock"; "A quarter before," said Nelson. "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me." Horatio Nelson