Baedekers

"Our Baedekers will be a sight when we get home, won't they, Polly?" remarked Jasper, in a pause, when eyes had been busy to their utmost capacity.

Five Little Peppers Abroad Margaret Sidney 1884

I love Baedekers, too and this makes me very happy!

Found in Google Books | Edwardian Promenade 2010

There are a handful of books about marriage that by dint of their wide-ranging intelligence, originality, and sheer eloquence have become Baedekers for my year with the group, and, frankly, for the years yet to come with my husband.

THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

I've got the 1896 Baedekers for "London and its Environs" with maps.

Spreadsheet Withdrawal gailcarriger 2008

Many were trying, the day of our visit, to see the place with no help but that of their bewildering Baedekers, and we had constant reason to be glad of our guide as we met or passed them in the measureless courts and endless corridors.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

When you hear me a-talkin 'don' you go turnin 'over your Baedekers and lookin' out of the window.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

The other tourists, noses in Baedekers, were hurrying on before, the guard was busily counting his sixpences, and she slipped back into the dim chapel unperceived.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

Gothic façade; sometimes a nondescript dog would raise a lazy head to snap at the flies; occasionally the streets would send back a nasal echo as a group of American tourists, with their Baedekers and maps, came hurrying along to "do" the town before the next train left for

Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

He knew the people who never walked about with Baedekers, who had learnt to take a siesta after lunch, who took drives the pension tourists had never heard of, and saw by private influence galleries which were closed to them.

A Room with a View 1924

Result, the end which sank under you before now pops wide, and spouts forth a stream of Baedekers red as collops.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918