"Pedestrianism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wooden bridges which we crossed, and the driver's admonition, "Bridge dangerous; passengers get out and walk." The night was very cold and frosty, and so productive of aguish chills, that I was not at all sorry for the compelled pedestrianism entailed upon me by the insecure state ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird
... zeal for physical training begins to wane a little, my friend? I thought it would, in your particular case, because it began too ardently and was concentrated too exclusively on your one hobby of pedestrianism. Just now you are literally under the weather. It is the equinoctial storm. No matter, you say; did not Olmsted foot it over England under an umbrella? did not Wordsworth regularly walk every guest round Windermere, the day after arrival, rain or shine? ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... of it,' says I. 'I've been on the trot with pedestrianism for many a year, and more to come, as ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry |
