They started from Dover on a sea that looked like a mill-pond; but Tishy's husband afterwards reported that the bride sat with her eyes shut the last half of the Trajet, and said, "Don't speak to me, and I shall be all right."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Although the distance from Shelbyville to Wartrace is only eight miles, we were one hour and ten minutes in effecting the Trajet, in such a miserable and dangerous state were the rails.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
But the girl of Tower Hill, who hung on Jack's neck before he departed; and the lass at Quimper, who gave the Frenchman his brule-gueule and tobacco-box before he departed on the noir Trajet?
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray