1 He knew what he wanted, and when Gerald wanted something he gained it by taking the most direct route.
2 Along the entire route of several hundred miles, the tracks had been cleared and all the available rolling stock in the Southeast had been assembled for the movement.
3 Carey Ashburn had brought a little tea, which he had found in the tobacco pouch of a captured Yankee en route to Andersonville, and everyone had a cup, faintly flavored with tobacco.
4 There seemed thousands of them, bearded, dirty, their guns slung over their shoulders, swiftly passing at route step.
5 She knew what she wanted and she went after it by the shortest route, like a man, not by the hidden and circuitous routes peculiar to women.
6 She came home by the unvarying route.
7 Now, as a vessel of war readily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
8 Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
9 He now spoke of the long and painful route by which they had left those spacious grounds and happy villages, to come and battle against the enemies of their Canadian fathers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 10 The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 11 Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to "follow," moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 12 The route was now painful; lying over ground ragged with rocks, and intersected with ravines, and their progress proportionately slow.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 13 Placing Alice, then, on the same animal with Cora, he seized the bridle, and commenced his route by plunging deeper into the forest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 14 The lake now began to expand, and their route lay along a wide reach, that was lined, as before, by high and ragged mountains.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 15 At this point, where their footsteps might be expected to be no longer visible, they retraced their route to the brook, walking backward, with the utmost care.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20