"Sightseer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... land of alien faiths and secular wonders, she found herself summoned, not as casual sightseer or tourist, but as among the handful of elect persons who count in its social, political and administrative life. In virtue of her father's position, her own would be both conspicuous and assured. An intoxicating ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... into the garden stumbled the man from Topaz City, Nevada. The gloom of the solitary sightseer enwrapped him. Bereft of joy through loneliness, he stalked with a widower's face through the halls of pleasure. Thirst for human companionship possessed him as he panted in the metropolitan draught. Straight to the ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... fortune-teller, "if he sought me I would know him. He has simply accompanied you as a sightseer. Now, Captain, what ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... people, many of whom were from America, and some of whom I would like to know. I've never had a horror of tourists—in fact I think the horror of them that most people pretend to feel is a sort of affectation, a false attempt at superiority—and I always liked, when I was a sightseer myself, to come back to the hotel in the evening and meet the cheerful crowd full ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler
... much the same ground in 1868 with three ladies. I made both these journeys as an ordinary sightseer. I took few letters of introduction. I did not deliver those, except in one or two cases ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar |
