traveller's joy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It is intended to be the commercial traveller's joy and treasure.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Her ruling thought was one of gladness, even joy—and the traveller's joy at that.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
The traveller's joy gleams in the September sunlight as the feathery awns lengthen on its seed vessels.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
In the autumn the traveller's joy produces the long, hairy tufts that have earned for it the name of old man's beard, while the guelder roses bear clusters of red berries.
From Lessons on Soil by E. J. Russell
When he opened it she saw that it contained a pen-and-ink sketch of herself that had been done one evening by a young artist staying at the Court, and—a bunch of traveller's joy.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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