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My own memory, however, was jogged as I read that Gretel was voyaging from Australia to the U.S. as deck cargo aboard a freighter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hated his latchkey, he hated the long stroll in Hyde Park, the absurd delay upon the bridge, his preoccupation with the Muscovy duck, or whatever bird it was, voyaging over the Serpentine.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Then the etheric wave-thrust principle was discovered: by 2500 A.D. man was voyaging out into space and Interplanetary travel began.

From Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various

Thus at a time when other Southerners were, as Professor Gildersleeve has said, getting out their classics to reread them, Lanier was voyaging into strange fields of thought alone.

From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Mims, Edwin

Shakespeare was at work, and Drake was voyaging under the Elizabethan ægis at the time when the great silver mines of the Mexican Sierra Madre were giving up their rich ores to treatment.

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin