"I tell people to take their life jackets off because they make an easy target," said Paul J. Lerin, a self-appointed guide who hopes to turn his love of the river into an environmental cleanup business.

He was our self-appointed guide to Bouilland, population 136, sixteen kilometres from Beaune.

The police will keep self-appointed guides from hassling wide-eyed tourists.

One of these referred to the old man who seemed to be the self-appointed guide to the Bowder Stone, that most popular tourist attraction, which hangs precariously, as it hung then, in Borrowdale.

"No gracias señora," Glinn said, shoving his way through the crowd to follow his self-appointed guides.

They followed Torre and Alessan, passing a number of other priests and lay servants, most whom smiled at them, somewhat making up for their dour, self-appointed guide.

Only a dozen feet away, The Shadow veered off into the darkness, at the same time observing the self-appointed guide.

Directions to and history of the fortress are provided by self-appointed guides from the town of Milot.

Their self-appointed guide waved expansively at the huge panels of glass on the other side of the hall.

I couldn't get out all night, and in the morning I had a self-appointed guide that glued herself to my elbow right up until that mob broke loose to go after that poor Woolwright woman!