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Literary notes about TRAVEL (AI summary)

In literature, “travel” serves as a versatile term that bridges the physical journey with metaphorical and emotional quests. Authors use it to depict literal movement—to cover vast distances or embark on explorations of unfamiliar territories ([1], [2], [3])—while also employing it to symbolize personal freedom, self-discovery, and the relentless pursuit of growth ([4], [5], [6]). At times, the word extends beyond its conventional meaning, appearing in technical discussions of motion or distance ([7], [8]) and even echoing the broader human experience of venturing into the unknown, whether in the realms of history, commerce, or the inner landscapes of the mind ([9], [10]).
  1. “What resource are you speaking of?” “Of travel.”
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  2. Hakon thanked the people for their support which they had given him, and got ready to travel east to Viken.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  3. His cavalry will travel a hundred miles where ours will ten.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  4. A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures.
    — from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  5. I don't intend to wait for that, but, like the people in fairy tales, travel away into the world and seek my fortune.
    — from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
  6. His lady lived entirely apart from him; and it is only curious how they came to travel together at all.
    — from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
  7. The throw must equal half of the distance which the slide-valve has to travel over the steam ports.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  8. The travel of the piston is called its stroke .
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  9. To reach the summit of Hæmus you have to travel six 2513 miles.
    — from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
  10. Increasing trade and travel, colonizations, migrations and wars, had broadened the intellectual horizon.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

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