excursion

It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion.

It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion.

Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France may perchance have noticed, about midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde,—a little nearer to the former than to the latter,—a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard.

Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.