Use route in a sentence
Sentences ending with route
- Some other regiments went by another route. [9]
- In order, therefore, to increase the strength of the attack upon Richmond at the earliest moment, General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. [7]
- Baggage checked through to any point on the route. [5]
- This sugar took this route, doubtless, because it was cheaper than the old route. [7]
- Why bless you, there's scenery on that route. [5]
- Anson Burlingame, U. S. Minister to China, and Gen. Van Valkenburgh, Minister to Japan, with their families and suites, have just arrived here en route. [5]
- He said the place to keep a man "huffy" was down on the Southern Overland, among the Apaches, before the company moved the stage line up on the northern route. [5]
- Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe or anywhere between here and there, or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. [7]
- Michaud, who had never seen Moscow before the campaign and who did not know Russian, yet felt deeply moved (as he wrote) when he appeared before notre tres gracieux souverain * with the news of the burning of Moscow, dont les flammes eclairaient sa route. [2]
- Never had he made such a trip, and he had been forced to come back by a northern route. [9]
More example sentences with the word route in them
- When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
- For thirteen years, winter and summer, this coachman had driven this monotonous, uninteresting route, with always the same sandy hills, scrubby firs, occasional cabins, in sight. [4]
- I was not willing to expose the brave fellows to the perils, fatigues, and hardships of that fearful route again if it could be helped. [5]
- Soon afterwards I went abroad, and made my way by a devious route to Voban's house. [11]
- One might as well walk under water and hope to guess out a route and stick to it, I should think. [5]
- Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
- Exclusive of the water line, you are now nearer to Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that you can and he must take. [7]
- He had been to high school and to college, and he had taken one or two prizes en route to graduation; but no fame travelled with him, save that he was the laziest man of any college year for a decade. [11]
- It was impossible to get much information about our route into Tennessee, except that we should go by Paint Rock, and cross Paint Mountain. [4]
- We have determined to do the best we can, and get in the route of vessels. [5]
- We seemed able to choose our own route and go whenever we pleased, unchallenged and unmolested. [5]
- A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, on the route from Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing. [5]
- But, ere carrying this plan into execution, Moses, accompanied by a few trusty men, desired to examine the new route and ascertain whether it would be passable for the great wandering people. [10]
- Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials--yes, and a pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on. [5]
- He showed us the whole thing, on a relief-map, and we could see our route, with all its elevations and depressions, its villages and its rivers, as clearly as if we were sailing over it in a balloon. [5]
- He had proposed the route along the canal because nobody would be likely to recognize them, and her pride resented this. [9]
- He gave up the raid for the day, and hurried back to the haunted house by the obscurest route he knew. [5]
- He also noted the position of a pile of horse blankets, midway of the route, with the intent to levy upon them for the service of the crown of England for one night. [5]
- The adventurers on the James hoped they could follow the stream to highlands that looked off upon the South Sea, a new route to India and the Spice Islands. [4]
- Part went by the Grande Rue, and part by the Rue d'Driere, converging to the point of attack; and as the light infantry came down from the hill by the Rue des Tres Pigeons, Peirson entered the Vier Marchi by the Route es Couochons. [11]
- His route is the arc of a circle, while yours is the chord. [7]
- There he learned that, with her aunt, she had left that morning for Alexandria en route to England. [11]
- The landlord suggested that we take another route, stay that night on Caney River with Big Tom Wilson, only eight miles from Burnsville, cross Mount Mitchell, and go down the valley of the Swannanoa to Asheville. [4]
- It is believed that the quickest route would be by way of Columbus, Ky., and up the Ohio River. [7]
- Every field on that long route was watched by an armed sentinel, some of whom had fallen asleep, no doubt, but were on hand, nevertheless. [5]
- Now that was stage-coaching on the great overland, ten or twelve years ago, when perhaps not more than ten men in America, all told, expected to live to see a railroad follow that route to the Pacific. [5]
- I left by stage for Naples before daylight in the morning, having come in by the same route after dark the evening, previous to the speaking, when I found you waiting at the Quincy House to meet me. [7]
- At all the stables the driver is king; all the people on the route are deferential to him; they are happy if he will crack a joke with them, and take it as a favor if he gives them better than they send. [4]
- There was the skin of one hanging upon a tree by the route we would take in the morning, a buster, he skinned him yesterday. [4]
- Why I cannot see, unless it was remote from the route of travel, and the desolation of it was congenial to him. [4]
- Travelers with the same intention may be warned that the route on horseback is impracticable. [4]
- Somewhere along this route we had a few startling exhibitions of Oriental simplicity. [5]
- Our first day's route was through the Gill-brook woods and up one of its branches to the head of Caribou Pass, which separates Nipple Top from Colvin. [4]
- They opened the route to her affections, as his place and title could not do. [11]
- We found the route to be good enough for a while, but it began to grow difficult, by and by, and this feature steadily increased. [5]
- He represented this route as shorter and infinitely more picturesque. [4]
- They decided, on reflection, to join company with the mail-rider, who was going to Burnsville by the shorter route, and could pilot them over the dangerous ford of the Toe. [4]
- In 1886 Moses Pendergrass put in a bid for the contract to carry the mail on the route from Knob Lick to Libertyville and Coffman, thirty miles a day, from July 1, 1887, for one years. [5]
- So Moses carried out his contract, walked thirty miles every week-day for a year, and carried the mail, and received for his labour $4, or, to be accurate, $6.84; for, the route being extended after his bid was accepted, his pay was proportionately increased. [5]
- She had gone out alone towards the sea, Annette said, by a route at the rear of the village. [11]
- He was now on his way back through the parishes to Montreal, and his route lay through Chaudiere. [11]
- They took the old route by the West Indies. [4]
- Over this part of the route were occasional remains of an old Roman road like the Appian Way, whose paving-stones still clung to their places with Roman tenacity. [5]
- A further verification of the feasibility of this route was made by Captain George Weymouth, who was sent out in 1605 by the Earl of Southampton. [4]
- They gave previous notice of the pilgrimage by small posters, and warned everybody to keep indoors and darken all houses along the route, and leave the road empty. [5]
- This order could not go by land, but must take the longer and slower route by sea. [7]
- The northern terminus must connect with some existing railroad, and whether the route shall be from Lexington or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Lebanon to the Tennessee line, in the direction of Knoxville, or on some still different line, can easily be determined. [7]
- I had my misgivings when I gave you the letter from Humboldt, asking that the post route from Indian Gulch to Shakespeare Gap and intermediate points be changed partly to the old Mormon trail. [5]
- Rouen, where Joan met her martyrdom, was only a short distance away, and they halted there en route to Paris, where they had arranged to spend the winter. [5]
- Have you a memorandum of the route we took--or the names of any of the Stations we stopped at? [5]
- We returned to London on the 13th of August by the same route we had followed in going from London to Paris. [6]
- There was a liberal allowance of pretty waterfalls, too, on the Te^te Noir route. [5]
- There was no lack of cascades along this route. [5]
- As David and Lacey, fearlessly exposing themselves to rifle fire, and taking the shortest and most dangerous route to where Achmet fought, rode swiftly from the palace, Ebn Ezra's three steamers appeared up the river, and came slowly down to where David's gunboats lay. [11]
- You want to know something about the route between California and Nevada Territory? [5]
- But while we know not whether Jackson will move at all, or by what route, we cannot safely put you and Banks both on the Strasburg line, and leave no force on the Front Royal line--the very line upon which he prosecuted his late raid. [7]
- I should think it preferable to take the route nearest the enemy, disabling him to make an important move without your knowledge, and compelling him to keep his forces together for dread of you. [7]
- But I consider it over 2,000 miles from St. Jo to Carson, and the first 6 or 800 miles is mere Fourth of July, compared to the balance of the route. [5]
- In the winter it has ice communication with Nova Scotia, from Cape Traverse to Cape Tormentine,--the route of the submarine cable. [4]
- When General McDowell is in position on your right, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to supply him by that route. [7]
- Here is an instance: "I (Ramzam) and Hyder set out, for the purpose of strangling travelers, from Guddapore, and proceeded via the Fort of Julalabad, Newulgunge, Bangermow, on the banks of the Ganges (upwards of 100 miles), from whence we returned by another route. [5]
- The best thing I saw on the route was a rustic fence, near Elizabethtown, I think, but I am not quite sure. [6]
- What was in his mind was also passing through that of the river-driver and a few of his friends, and they carefully watched the route he was taking. [11]
- Then he took him by an indirect route to what was, reputedly, a tavern of consequence. [11]
- The post office here is always out of my route, somehow or other. [5]
- In the morning, having renewed his provisional supplies, he is off again on his wild and unbeaten route. [5]
- Your worthy mayor has been pleased to mention, in his address to me, the fortunate and agreeable journey which I have had from home, on my rather circuitous route to the Federal capital. [7]
- It becomes a hardship when my neighbor is whisked over the route in six hours and I have to walk. [4]
- It was at Hakluyt's suggestion that two vessels were sent out from Plymouth in 1603 to verify Gosnold's report of his new short route. [4]
- Patrin----small heaps of grass, or leaves, or twigs, or string, laid at cross-roads to indicate the route that must be followed. [11]
- Yes, I have gone over that same route so often that I know my way without a compass, just by the waves. [5]
- If we had gone on, we should have arrived at the summit, but Harris preferred to ask a lot of questions--as usual, of a man who didn't know anything--and he told us to go back and follow the other route. [5]
- May I never forget the spirited little jade, the off-leader in the third stage, the petted belle of the route, the nervous, coquettish, mincing mare of Marshy Hope. [4]
- Please have your force at Strasburg, or, if the route you are moving on does not lead to that point, as near Strasburg as the enemy may be by the same time. [7]
- He had been far past it by another route, up, up and out into the more scattered settlements, and now at last he had come to it again, having completed a kind of circle. [11]
- It was written en route to Winnipeg, at the dictation of Gerard Fynes, who had a romantic view of life and a mistaken pride, but some courage too--the courage of love. [11]
- There were about eight of these kings, all told, on the overland route. [5]
- He elaborated a deep plan to find a new route to an old country. [5]
- I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining-ditch in California, and I was on my way thither, by sea --a three or four weeks' voyage. [5]
- The easier and common route is by the Ford of Big Ivy, eighteen miles, the first stopping-place; and that was a long ride for the late afternoon when we were in condition to move. [4]
- If the more circuitous route were chosen, it lay first through the garden; and this was the course taken by Orion. [10]
- And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. [9]
- He did not bother himself much about details or practicabilities of location, but ran merrily along, sighting from the top of one divide to the top of another, and striking "plumb" every town site and big plantation within twenty or thirty miles of his route. [5]
- I have lately been over to London for a week, going by the Dieppe and New Haven route at night, and returning by another; and the contrasts I speak of were impressed upon me anew. [4]
- Your ticket will be inspected every now and then along the route, and when it is time to change cars you will know it. [5]
- You've got sense and judgment, and you ain't afraid to get your own way by any route. [11]
- The corps of Amon, with the Ethiopian mercenaries, were to support him, joining him by another route, which the pioneer's false indications represented as connecting the line of operations. [10]
- The devastation consummated along the route traversed by the river of lava was complete and incalculable. [5]
- The trail lay along the edge of a brawling stream in the bottom of the gorge--a shady route, for it was well roofed with the verdant domes of forest trees. [5]
- We never saw a human being on the whole route, much less lawless hordes of Bedouins. [5]
- We descended by a different route, on the south side of the mountain, to our horses, and made a lark of it. [4]
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