Sentence examples for grand excursion from inspiring English sources

You see the action through Armstrong's let's-put-on-a-show eyes, and it becomes a grand excursion into impure movie magic.

Travellers from the east could now reach the Mississippi in a mere three days.The railway's managers celebrated its completion with a Grand Excursion.

So, in 2004, cities from St Paul to Davenport in Iowa plan to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Grand Excursion by doing it all over again.

With the extension of the railroad which now connected Virginia City to the young town of Reno and the Trans Continental Railroad, Bowers Mansion became a prime destination for grand excursions.

With more than 300 seats, about a third of them in an amber-glowing main room, Ilili may be the atmospherically grandest excursion into Middle Eastern cooking that New York has seen.

In fact Ilili is probably the atmospherically grandest excursion into Middle Eastern cooking that New York has seen, easily surpassing Layla, the Drew Nieporent production that ran for many years in the TriBeCa spot now inhabited by Centrico, which replaced hummus with guacamole.

We had wonderful excursions!

It takes forever this morning to load the tender that takes us into Grand Cayman for excursions.

By Anthony Hiss The New Yorker, September 4, 1971 P. 24 Talk story about the Valley Railroad Company's Inaugural Run, at the Grand Reopening of Steam Excursion Service, from Essex to Deep River, Conn., on the 100th anniversary of the First Run.

Now, in the age of the Grand Project, Mabey's excursions from 35 years ago, undertaken in strong heart, never succumbing to impotent rage, seem prophetic.

In Brussels, our days were filled with touristic excursions — the Grand' Place, the Atomium (a 335-foot-high model of an atomic crystal, with a cafe serving waffles at its center) — and sentimental ones.