"Tourist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tell of giddy stairs which scale the very edge of the torrent, nor of beetling slabs of table rock, broken and breaking, on which, shudder as you may, you must take your stand or lose your reputation as a tourist. All these feats were performed again and again even on the first day of our arrival, and most earthly weary was I when the day was done, though I would not lose the remembrance of it to purchase the addition of many soft and ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope
... number of visitors to the famous octagonal room during the four mornings he spent there. In the course of some twelve hours the room was visited by some twelve people! It is only fair to say that it was not in the tourist season; the month was June, and nobody stayed ...
— Velazquez • S. L. Bensusan
... regard to the buttresses. This front is small indeed, but elegant: it is more richly ornamented than that of the chapel in the castle at Caen;[81] and, though less so than that of the abbey church of St. Georges de Bocherville, yet can it scarcely be said to be inferior in beauty. A recent tourist[82] has remarked, with much apparent probability, that the churches of St. Georges and of Lery may, from the general conformity in the style of both, reasonably be regarded as of nearly the same aera,—the time of the Norman conquest; ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... though his Excellency, Mr. Bulwer, was living there, and made no complaints that I heard of, other less distinguished persons thought they had reason to grumble. Indeed, what is travelling made of? At least half its pleasures and incidents come out of inns; and of them the tourist can speak with much more truth and vivacity than of historical recollections compiled out of histories, or filched out of handbooks. But to speak of the best inn in a place needs no apology: that, at least, ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
... consequences from damage to critical infrastructure and key resources in nearby jurisdictions; (C) the size of the population and density of the population of the State, including appropriate consideration of military, tourist, and commuter populations; (D) whether the State is on or near an international border; (E) whether the State encompasses an economically significant border crossing; and (F) whether the State has a coastline bordering an ocean, a major waterway used for interstate commerce, ...
— Homeland Security Act of 2002 - Updated Through October 14, 2008 • Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives
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