All 33 Uses of
pilgrim
in
Heart of Darkness
- They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence.†
Chpt 1 *
- However, they were all waiting—all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them—for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease—as far as I could see.†
Chpt 1
- The pilgrims could be seen in knots gesticulating, discussing.†
Chpt 1
- I became in an instant as much of a pretense as the rest of the bewitched pilgrims.†
Chpt 1
- The pilgrims used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him.†
Chpt 1
- You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.†
Chpt 1
- It must have made some of the pilgrims sit up in their hovels.†
Chpt 1
- It came in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in new clothes and tan shoes, bowing from that elevation right and left to the impressed pilgrims.†
Chpt 1
- I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming.†
Chpt 2
- I had the manager on board and three or four pilgrims with their staves—all complete.†
Chpt 2
- Where the pilgrims imagined it crawled to I don't know.†
Chpt 2
- The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real.†
Chpt 2
- I had been dimly aware for some time of a worrying noise, and when I lifted my eyes I saw the wood-pile was gone, and the manager, aided by all the pilgrims, was shouting at me from the river-side.†
Chpt 2
- What is the meaning—?' stammered at my elbow one of the pilgrims,—a little fat man, with sandy hair and red whiskers, who wore side-spring boots, and pink pyjamas tucked into his socks.†
Chpt 2
- Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.†
Chpt 2
- I looked at them with a swift quickening of interest—not because it occurred to me I might be eaten by them before very long, though I own to you that just then I perceived—in a new light, as it were—how unwholesome the pilgrims looked, and I hoped, yes, I positively hoped, that my aspect was not so—what shall I say?†
Chpt 2
- Two pilgrims were quarreling in hurried whispers as to which bank.†
Chpt 2
- You should have seen the pilgrims stare!†
Chpt 2
- The pilgrims had opened with their Winchesters, and were simply squirting lead into that bush.†
Chpt 2
- I put the helm hard a-starboard at the moment when the pilgrim in pink pyjamas, very hot and agitated, appeared in the doorway.†
Chpt 2
- He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance in his honor; he could also fill the small souls of the pilgrims with bitter misgivings: he had one devoted friend at least, and he had conquered one soul in the world that was neither rudimentary nor tainted with self-seeking.†
Chpt 2
- All the pilgrims and the manager were then congregated on the awning-deck about the pilot-house, chattering at each other like a flock of excited magpies, and there was a scandalized murmur at my heartless promptitude.†
Chpt 2
- The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged.†
Chpt 2
- When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board.†
Chpt 2
- Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms—two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine—the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter.†
Chpt 3
- The Russian, eyed curiously by the pilgrims, was staring at the shore.†
Chpt 3
- The pilgrims murmured at my back.†
Chpt 3
- I saw a row of pilgrims squirting lead in the air out of Winchesters held to the hip.†
Chpt 3
- I pulled the string of the whistle, and I did this because I saw the pilgrims on deck getting out their rifles with an air of anticipating a jolly lark.†
Chpt 3
- The pilgrims looked upon me with disfavor.†
Chpt 3
- The pilgrims were dining in the mess-room, and I took my place opposite the manager, who lifted his eyes to give me a questioning glance, which I successfully ignored.†
Chpt 3
- All the pilgrims rushed out to see.†
Chpt 3
- But I am of course aware that next day the pilgrims buried something in a muddy hole.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(pilgrim with a lowercase "p") someone who journeys to a special place -- typically a difficult journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion