voyager

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The other voyager was a jovial Swede whose sole baggage consisted of an old musket, a blackthorn stick, and a barometer glass, tied up together.

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  1. One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water. You go on to prefer my Captivity in this Fleet to that of a Voyager at Sea. Howell, Letters, ii. 39. In a few short moments I retrace (As in a map the voyager his course) The windings of my way through many years. Cowper, Task, vi. 17.

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  • Early days are always bright to life's voyager, and whatever his condition may have been at the outset, he is ever wont to look back with fondness to the scenes of his youth. —  Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
  • The strange and almost savage ceremonies used at sea on crossing the equator have been so often described that a voyager, at this time of day, may be well excused for omitting any minute account of such wild proceedings. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
  • I found my fellow-voyager was a teacher of military science, late from Baltimore, Maryland; he soon had a class of militia officers, to whom he gave instructions, and exhibited diagrams of military evolutions. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • I found my old fellow-voyager, Brigham, on the American bottom in Illinois, where he had cultivated some large fields of corn, and where he had contracted fever and ague. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Once the voyager was sealed inside, the craft's systems suppressed the life processes to barest sustainability. —  FSFMagazine,June2007
 

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