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  • A photograph of Sojourner Truth stared back at me solemn-eyed.†   (source)
  • She had loved to warble on about what she called her "sojourn" in New Mexico—wide horizons, empty skies, spiritual clarity.†   (source)
  • "I can only say that his behavior was all that could be wished during his sojourn with us," Miss Oker said.†   (source)
  • In its small way, it is the middle passage, that watery sojourn that, one way and another, took the lives of millions, as Morrison says in the novel's epigraph.†   (source)
  • I was beginning to see what was in store for me during my mortal sojourn.†   (source)
  • When he picked his net and held them pinched at the gills he felt in their silence how desperate their sojourn was, and he was moved in the manner a fisherman is moved, quietly, without words.†   (source)
  • But his sojourn in what he called 'the land of bears, ice, and rocks' brought on an attack of pneumonia and he died in the winter of 1650.†   (source)
  • Back when he was a bachelor, he'd stayed in the basement of Partners In Health headquarters during his sojourns in Boston.†   (source)
  • Dick's eyes and sullen expression and Perry's strange, prolonged sojourn in the lavatory disturbed him.†   (source)
  • To accept it was to bring his European sojourn to an end; not to accept it was to transform his sojourn into exile.†   (source)
  • As quickly as he could, Eragon summarized what had taken place since he and Saphira set forth with Brom, including their sojourn to Ellesmera and his own transformation during the Agaeti Blodhren.†   (source)
  • They were staying at the Waldorf, which was J. Edgar Hoover's hotel of choice during his sojourns in New York, but the party was taking place, the ball, the fete, the social event of the season, the decade, the half century no doubt—the ball was in the ballroom at the Plaza.†   (source)
  • Perhaps on his rare sojourns into civilization, Smith had passed the Howard Automobile Company dealerships springing up.†   (source)
  • You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.†   (source)
  • I couldn't take my eyes off the small marble rectangle where the name of Rosa the Beautiful had been engraved in tall Gothic letters, along with the dates that marked her brief sojourn in this world.†   (source)
  • But those sojourns had a way of expanding one's social conscience.†   (source)
  • At one point during their sojourn upriver, the Americans had sent a fireship—a ship set ablaze—against the Phoenix, but to no avail; and on the return passage, American guns had blasted away as before, "like incessant thunders," and again without much effect.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when I was not too tired, I would set myself some chore near the hearth to keep him company awhile, and he would reward me with many tales of the places he'd sojourned.†   (source)
  • All that ended abruptly the day his father returned from a sojourn in King's Landing.†   (source)
  • Despite her will of iron, she is a great one for taking walks, and as the days grow greener, we are grateful for these sojourns from the stuffy halls of Spence.†   (source)
  • Upon this wall was a grid in which each occupant had three boxes, running from side to side, for the inscription of his name, the dates of his sojourn, and a comment: "Bottai, Rudolpho: I was the first.†   (source)
  • Even a stray unkind remark about the king or his family could result in a sojourn of indeterminate length in the GID's labyrinth of secret detention centers.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, there must be a beginning to any tale; and the story of my sojourn amongst the wolves begins properly in Granny's bathroom.†   (source)
  • The Chinese I know hide their names; sojourners take new names when their lives change and guard their real names with silence.†   (source)
  • For all our sojourn here has been based on a vast deception, a concealment of truth which you were not ready to face.†   (source)
  • As the conversation buzzed about in the balmy evening I began to understand that Mr. and Mrs. Field were joining Leslie's parents for a long weekend sojourn at the Lapidus summer home on the Jersey shore.†   (source)
  • Exiled to reality, my own sojourns across the line are necessarily those of an alien guilty of illegal entry.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, he thought, in Leamas' long sojourn in the wilderness he would have to break faith with his oath of poverty, drunkenness, degeneracy, above all of solitude.†   (source)
  • God help me, the name Sojourner was laid on my head like the top teetering crown of a pile of things to remember.†   (source)
  • "Why would they hurt us?" asked Sojourner Truth.†   (source)
  • Sojourner Truth, for instance, was still a slave.†   (source)
  • The lander was immobile, while Sojourner wandered around and got a good look at the local rocks.†   (source)
  • One to talk to us, the other to talk to Sojourner.†   (source)
  • "The lander hasn't been able to connect to Sojourner, and we have no way to contact it directly."†   (source)
  • But Sojourner has six independent wheels that rotate reasonably fast.†   (source)
  • Now I'm in the rover, looking at Sojourner.†   (source)
  • After a quick search, I found Sojourner.†   (source)
  • Sojourner's showing no signs of life, either.†   (source)
  • I quickly deposited Sojourner in my rover.†   (source)
  • Once JPL lost contact with the lander, they had no idea what became of Sojourner.†   (source)
  • The lander itself, and the Sojourner rover.†   (source)
  • Have you had any contact with the Sojourner rover?†   (source)
  • T Sojourner rover brought out, placed 1 meter due north of lander.†   (source)
  • But the panels might be okay, and Sojourner can operate directly off them.†   (source)
  • The lander's signal wouldn't be able to reach Sojourner through Hab canvas."†   (source)
  • You may think Sojourner isn't much use to me.†   (source)
  • Then it was time to take a look at Sojourner's daddy.†   (source)
  • The day I have decided my sojourn in Africa ends and America awaits.†   (source)
  • The train stood waiting, stocked for a long sojourn in the East.†   (source)
  • But these sojourns on cheap horses were rarities.†   (source)
  • Not to forget, never to forget the name of Sojourner.†   (source)
  • She is supposed to have been much improved by a sojourn in Boston, which to my certain knowledge — and to yours too, my dear Edward, for you were with me as an undergraduate at Harvard — has never improved anyone else; but from the way my mother hymns the young lady's moral virtues, I fear that the rectification of the deficiencies in her other charms has not been among the improvements.†   (source)
  • The boy's blue toothbrush rests next to a half-empty tube of Colgate, a packet of dental floss, and the gold molar crown that, according to his journal, fell off his tooth three weeks into his sojourn.†   (source)
  • "This is the one fish chosen for you tonight," says the woman holding it the Empress Josephine, or else Madame Curie or Sojourner Truth, she's in the shade so he can't tell which.†   (source)
  • What might be wrong with Sojourner?†   (source)
  • Real interesting story, actually; turns out there was a priority inversion in Sojourner's thread management and—"†   (source)
  • When, the week of Christmas, Abigail went off with the Smiths for a sojourn at Bath, Adams kept steadily at his labors.†   (source)
  • It was impossible, at least for me, to know the story of Deo's lost year, of his long escape and his sojourn in crack houses and Central Park, and not imagine lingering costs.†   (source)
  • And whoever prolongs his sojourn in that city —who tries, that is, to make a home there—is doomed to discover that there is no one to be blamed for whatever happens to him.†   (source)
  • The Napoleonic Wars were over, and John Quincy, after a brief sojourn in Paris, moved on to London to serve, again like his father, as minister to the Court of St. James's.†   (source)
  • Hers had been a lonely sojourn, and for most of it she had been hurt and hungry …. yet despite it all she had been strangely happy here.†   (source)
  • I was appalled at the realization of how easily I had forgotten, and how readily I had denied, all that the summer sojourn with the wolves had taught me about them …. and about myself.†   (source)
  • Wedged into a corner of the building beneath a sloping roof, the bedchamber his captor had engaged featured a low ceiling, a sagging feather bed with an unpleasant odor, and a slanting wood-plank floor that reminded Tyrion of his sojourn at the Eyrie.†   (source)
  • During the winter sojourn of the caribou inside the timberline they feed in the woods at dawn and dusk and spend the daylight hours yarded on the ice of the open lakes.†   (source)
  • But when his American doctor, James Jay, the brother of John Jay, had suggested a sojourn in England, he had gone off to London with John Quincy and later to Bath, to take the waters, an experience Adams had found little to his liking and that was cut short by a summons to return to Holland to secure still another desperately needed loan.†   (source)
  • During the first few days of my sojourn with the wolves I stayed inside the tent except for brief and necessary visits to the out-of-doors which I always undertook when the wolves were not in sight.†   (source)
  • During his sojourn in the East in 1937, Smith had been caught working Seabiscuit at night four times.†   (source)
  • My sojourn in the country logically should have been the heady, halcyon happening I so warmly looked forward to.†   (source)
  • Mr. Voight before so very long-it happened during a sojourn home of Mr. MacLain, she remembered-was transferred to travel another seven states, ending the problem; and yet Mr. Voight had done something that amounted to more than going naked under his robe and calling alarm like a turkey gobbler, it was more belligerent; and the least describable thing of all had been a look on his face; that was strange.†   (source)
  • As I have already pointed out, I had been perplexed to discover during my sojourn in the North that New Yorkers often tended to regard Southerners either with extreme hostility (as Nathan had regarded me initially) or with amused condescension, as if they made up some class of minstrel entertainer.†   (source)
  • But I am asking you to consider the proposition, not because I don't honor your need for independence as you sojourn in the (to me) barbaric North but out of honest solicitude for the discontent you express in your recent letters, that sense I get that you are not precisely flourishing, spiritually or (of course) financially.†   (source)
  • She slept sitting up in the car going home, where her mama, now large-eyed, maiden name Sojourner, sat up listening.†   (source)
  • It was the slave boy Artiste who had provided me with the wherewithal for much of this summer's sojourn in Brooklyn; by the posthumous sacrifice of his flesh and hide he had done a great deal to keep me afloat during the early stages of my book, so perhaps it was divine justice that Artiste would support me no longer.†   (source)
  • She smiled, biting the seed in the pepper grass), back past the drunk Simon Sojourner that didn't want her, and on to embarrassed Mr. Mabry, behind whom waited loud, harmless, terrifying Mr. Nesbitt who wanted to stand up for her.†   (source)
  • Her arms dropped back to the mossiness, and she was Mr. MacLain's Doom, or Mr. MacLain's Weakness, like the rest, and neither Mrs. Junior Holifield nor Mattie Will Sojourner; now she was something she had always heard of.†   (source)
  • She was buried here with the Sojourners.†   (source)
  • …the heavens, one would reach Aquila, the Eagle; while if one drew a line through its uppermost stars, one would reach Pegasus, Bellerophon's flying stallion; and if one drew a line in the opposite direction, one would reach what appeared to be a brand-new star—a sun that may have flared out a thousand years ago, but the light of which had just reached the Northern Hemisphere in order to provide guidance to weary travelers, sojourners, and adventurers for another millennia to come….†   (source)
  • All of these evening sojourners at the Hunnicutts', I now realize, must have been in the ad game or Wall Street or some other hollow profession, but then I remained unshaken in my delusion.†   (source)
  • Yet no matter how sophisticated they may be in matters of economics, sojourners from the South (or anywhere else in the hinterland) rarely fail to be dumfounded by New York's tariffs and prices, and my father was no exception, grumbling darkly over the dinner check for two: I think it was around four dollars—imagine!†   (source)
  • There's the old lady that watches the turn of the road, thought the old countrymen, Sissums and Sojourners and Holifields, passing in trucks or wagons on Saturday, going home, lifting their hats.†   (source)
  • During your sojourn in the United States, did you ever come across the deceased?†   (source)
  • Huang Ti sojourned in the kingdom of the spirit; he taught the harmony of the heart.†   (source)
  • I can imagine Henry in New Orleans, who had not yet even been to Memphis, whose entire worldly experience consisted of sojourns at other houses, plantations, almost interchangeable with his own, where he followed the same routine which he did at home—the same hunting and cockfighting, the same amateur racing of horses on crude homemade tracks, horses sound enough in blood and lineage yet not bred to race and perhaps not even thirty minutes out of the shafts of a trap or perhaps even a…†   (source)
  • There is no need to despair; hundreds of these adult converts have been reclaimed after a I brief sojourn in the Enemy's camp and are now with us.†   (source)
  • Because, for all the twelve movings, they had sojourned until now in a poor country, a land of small farms and fields and houses, and he had never seen a house like this before.†   (source)
  • More dispiriting than the fate of Rip is the account of what happened to the Irish hero Oisin when he returned from a long sojourn with the daughter of the King of the Land of Youth.†   (source)
  • But despite this isolation and this long sojourn in a strange world, I remained unchanged, still a small part of myself pretending to be whole.†   (source)
  • Since this was exactly Jacinto's procedure, Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air.†   (source)
  • "And how are you and the Good Woman enjoying your sojourn in the Land of the Sky?" said the Reverend John Smallwood.†   (source)
  • …gentle spreading glow but a flash, a glare (who not only had no visible father but had found himself to be, even in infancy, enclosed by an unsleeping cabal bent apparently on teaching him that he had never had, that his mother had emerged from a sojourn in limbo, from that state of blessed amnesia in which the weak senses can take refuge from the godless dark forces and powers which weak human flesh cannot stand, to wake pregnant, shrieking and screaming and thrashing, not against the…†   (source)
  • She fed him willingly enough, but his tirades and his nightly sojourns, both longer and more frequent now that his daughter was absent, annoyed her more than they ever had before.†   (source)
  • So it was four of them still who got off the boat in New Orleans, which Henry had never seen before (whose entire cosmopolitan experience, apart from his sojourn at the school, consisted probably of one or two trips to Memphis with his father to buy live stock or slaves) and had no time to look at now—Henry who knew yet did not believe, and Bon whom Mr Compson had called a fatalist but who, according to Shreve and Quentin, did not resist Henry's dictum and design for the reason that he…†   (source)
  • In the sea five years he sojourned, Waited five years, waited six years, Seven years also, even eight years, On the surface of the ocean, By a nameless promontory,Near a barren, treeless country.†   (source)
  • Not, General Compson said, the hardship to sense and the outrage to sensibility of the two years' sojourn, but Sutpen: that only an artist could have borne Sutpen's ruthlessness and hurry and still manage to curb the dream of grim and castlelike magnificence at which Sutpen obviously aimed, since the place as Sutpen planned it would have been almost as large as Jefferson itself at the time; that the little grim harried foreigner had singlehanded given battle to and vanquished Sutpen's…†   (source)
  • …corn and cutting winter wood, and in the lamplit kitchen helped this time to cook the meal and helped to eat it too within the room beyond whose ceiling he no longer lay, and went to bed (yes, took a candle from that firm untrembling hand and thought 'She did not even weep' and then in a lamp-Bloomed mirror saw my own face and thought 'Nor did you either) within that house where be had sojourned for another brief (and this time final) space and left no trace of him, not even tears.†   (source)
  • His sojourn in Winesburg was not a success.†   (source)
  • You shared with her her previous sojourn here.†   (source)
  • In this manner began the longer part of my sojourn upon this Island of Doctor Moreau.†   (source)
  • She had, in fact, reached Flintcomb-Ash, the place of Marian's sojourn.†   (source)
  • Their sojourn in town was something that Anne and Diana dated from for years.†   (source)
  • The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned.†   (source)
  • Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame.†   (source)
  • I give you the blessing of the houseless traveller; that of the sojourner will follow.†   (source)
  • Your mamma had commenced a letter to you while I was sojourning in her neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.†   (source)
  • Feathered species sojourned here in hiding which would have created wonder if found elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I am merely a sojourner here in Vanity Fair, being bound to the Celestial City by the new railroad.†   (source)
  • Oliver had been sojourning at the undertaker's some three weeks or a month.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks.†   (source)
  • I have found many marvels during my sojourn with the heathen, but surely nothing to excel this.†   (source)
  • The sight of so many good-humoured faces (especially the blacks), the taste of the tropical fruits, and above all the lights that began to shine in the town made a most charming contrast to our dark and bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the night.†   (source)
  • But with living on there, day after day, the acute sojourner became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Only a few months have passed since then—when I had my memorable sojourn with you—and yet, in that short time, Russell and Moore have crossed the Divide, like Rangers.†   (source)
  • The sojourn in the fields gave them a new strength; it was like a magic ceremony, by which they renewed their youth and the power of their limbs and the sweetness of the spirit: Philip had heard him say many fantastic, rhetorical, and picturesque things on the subject.†   (source)
  • One evening—with nothing to lead up or to prepare it—I felt the cold touch of the impression that had breathed on me the night of my arrival and which, much lighter then, as I have mentioned, I should probably have made little of in memory had my subsequent sojourn been less agitated.†   (source)
  • Soon after her arrival she received by letter a formal proposal of marriage from Elbert Harrington, who had been quietly attentive to her during her sojourn at Lake Placid.†   (source)
  • "However that may be, I have private information which convinces me that Mr. Burdovsky, though doubtless aware of the date of his birth, knew nothing at all about Pavlicheff's sojourn abroad.†   (source)
  • He then, of his own accord, spoke of going home, a subject he has never mentioned to my knowledge during his sojourn here.†   (source)
  • Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.†   (source)
  • In her place he would have cleared out, sooner than submit to Ronny's half-hearted and distracted civilities, but she was waiting for the hour-glass of her sojourn to run through.†   (source)
  • But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.†   (source)
  • Scarcely half an hour had elapsed ere she reappeared round the corner, walking beside a lad wheeling a truck on which were piled all Jude's household possessions, and also the few of Arabella's things which she had taken to the lodging for her short sojourn there.†   (source)
  • Robert related incidents of his sojourn in Mexico, and Edna talked of events likely to interest him, which had occurred during his absence.†   (source)
  • The covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green—for once they sojourned in a ditch and some of the pages have been washed blank by dirty water.†   (source)
  • They were few enough, but now, in view of an unexpected and enforced sojourn in the wilds, beyond all calculation of value.†   (source)
  • For him alone this supply would have been bountiful to begin a sojourn in the wilderness, but he was no longer alone.†   (source)
  • He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that, or the other one, every year of his sojourn.†   (source)
  • Now she was eagerly curious to know what had decided the Beauforts to invite (for the first time) Mrs. Lemuel Struthers, the widow of Struthers's Shoe-polish, who had returned the previous year from a long initiatory sojourn in Europe to lay siege to the tight little citadel of New York.†   (source)
  • And the genius had likewise failed to take into consideration that, just as it had departed and returned on several occasions, so, too, Hans Castorp might also return at just the right moment—though, to be sure, the only reason he was still sitting here now was so that he would never have to return again, that being, after all, as for so many people up here, the point of his sojourn.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, in one of the daily papers appeared a brief notice to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier were contemplating a summer sojourn abroad, and that their handsome residence on Esplanade Street was undergoing sumptuous alterations, and would not be ready for occupancy until their return.†   (source)
  • It was intrinsically different from the Vale of Little Dairies, Blackmoor Vale, which, save during her disastrous sojourn at Trantridge, she had exclusively known till now.†   (source)
  • …(delicate and considerate more in deference to the departed than to the receiver of the message), had reached Hans Castorp as he lay in his splendid lounge chair, whereupon he had purchased black-bordered stationery and written to his uncles or quasi cousins that having been orphaned twice, he now felt as if he had been orphaned yet a third time, and, still more distressing, was prevented, indeed prohibited, from interrupting his present sojourn to pay last respects to his great-uncle.†   (source)
  • Even the character and accent of the two peoples had shades of difference, despite the amalgamating effects of a roundabout railway; so that, though less than twenty miles from the place of her sojourn at Trantridge, her native village had seemed a far-away spot.†   (source)
  • The dairy-house, so humble, so insignificant, so purely to him a place of constrained sojourn that he had never hitherto deemed it of sufficient importance to be reconnoitred as an object of any quality whatever in the landscape; what was it now?†   (source)
  • The lovers did not rise at milking-time, having through the whole of this last week of their sojourn at the dairy been accorded something of the position of guests, Tess being honoured with a room of her own.†   (source)
  • Thence he went along the verge of the upland overhanging the other Hintocks, and, turning to the right, plunged into the bracing calcareous region of Flintcomb-Ash, the address from which she had written to him in one of the letters, and which he supposed to be the place of sojourn referred to by her mother.†   (source)
  • The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.†   (source)
  • When he awoke next morning, and tried to recollect his dreams, which had been all connected with his recent sojourn at Dotheboys Hall, he sat up, rubbed his eyes and stared—not with the most composed countenance possible—at some motionless object which seemed to be stationed within a few yards in front of him.†   (source)
  • "I was thankful for your tidings about the dear friends at the Hall Farm, for though I sent them a letter, by my aunt's desire, after I came back from my sojourn among them, I have had no word from them.†   (source)
  • Shall I ever recall that street of Canterbury on a market-day, without recalling him, as he walked back with us; expressing, in the hardy roving manner he assumed, the unsettled habits of a temporary sojourner in the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer!†   (source)
  • The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.†   (source)
  • Within three days he left the monastery in accordance with the words of his elder, who had bidden him "sojourn in the world."†   (source)
  • Franz added that his companion, deeply grieved at having been prevented the honor of being presented to the countess during her sojourn in Paris, was most anxious to make up for it, and had requested him (Franz) to remedy the past misfortune by conducting him to her box, and concluded by asking pardon for his presumption in having taken it upon himself to do so.†   (source)
  • I had heard some marvels consarning the spot from the soldiers of the 60th, which is my nat'ral corps like, and not the 55th, with which I have sojourned so much of late; but there are so many terrible liars in all rijiments that I hardly believed half they had told me.†   (source)
  • Physic may do for such as relish it; to my taste and judgment it is neither palatable nor healthy; but morals never did harm to any living mortal, be it that he was a sojourner in the forest, or a dweller in the midst of glazed windows and smoking chimneys.†   (source)
  • It was certainly true that Miss Stackpole, during her visit to Paris, which had been professionally more remunerative than her English sojourn, had not been living in the world of dreams.†   (source)
  • She had heard wondrous reports from time to time by dwellers in Weatherbury, who had by chance sojourned awhile in Casterbridge, near the barracks, of this strange and glorious performance, the sword-exercise.†   (source)
  • Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village—now, thanks to the enterprise of M. Lesseps, a fast-growing town.†   (source)
  • I gave him an outline of the history of the wreck, and of our sojourn upon these shores, and spoke to him, too, of Miss Montrose, and of the providential way in which we had been the means of rescuing her from her lonely position.†   (source)
  • It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homeward flight.†   (source)
  • "My old studies in alchemy," observed he, "and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than many that claim the medical degree.†   (source)
  • I spent money rather too freely in those days, it is true; but one reason for it was that I hadn't got the proportions of things entirely adjusted, even yet, after so long a sojourn in Britain—hadn't got along to where I was able to absolutely realize that a penny in Arthur's land and a couple of dollars in Connecticut were about one and the same thing: just twins, as you may say, in purchasing power.†   (source)
  • He had calculated that his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to a hundred and seventy-one francs.†   (source)
  • In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.†   (source)
  • "I mentioned the subject to Lady Dedlock," said Sir Leicester, rising, "and my Lady informed me that she had had the pleasure of exchanging a few words with Mr. Jarndyce and his wards on the occasion of an accidental meeting during their sojourn in the vicinity.†   (source)
  • But this giving way to sudden anger is foolish, and proves how little you have sojourned with the red man.†   (source)
  • Amongst such a people the servant always considers himself as a sojourner in the dwelling of his masters.†   (source)
  • He, indeed, not only adhered to his native customs in attire and living, but usually drove his plough among the stumps in the same manner as he had before done on the plains of Norfolk, until dear-bought experience taught him the useful lesson that a sagacious people knew what was suited to their circumstances better than a casual observer, or a sojourner who was, perhaps, too much prejudiced to compare and, peradventure, too conceited to learn.†   (source)
  • But there was no getting at the place of sojourn of the future abbe; the defiles of the chamber of Aramis were as well guarded as the gardens of Armida.†   (source)
  • When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had perched after a brief sojourn in Elba, and from steeple to steeple until they reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury, London, which you might have thought so quiet, that even the whirring and flapping of those mighty wings would pass unobserved there?†   (source)
  • "There is much fruitful soil uncultivated here," he said; "and, I may add, without the sinful leaven of self-commendation, that, since my short sojourn in these heathenish abodes, much good seed has been scattered by the wayside."†   (source)
  • The tabulated statement, ready for forwarding, lies on the table of the tribune in command; in five minutes more it will be on the way to Pilate, sojourning in the palace up on Mount Zion.†   (source)
  • The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature.†   (source)
  • Isabel speedily found occasion to desire her to desist from celebrating the charms of their common sojourn in print, having discovered, on the second morning of Miss Stackpole's visit, that she was engaged on a letter to the Interviewer, of which the title, in her exquisitely neat and legible hand (exactly that of the copybooks which our heroine remembered at school) was "Americans and Tudors—Glimpses of Gardencourt."†   (source)
  • A few permanent erections dotted the spot, but the majority of visitors patronized canvas alone for resting and feeding under during the time of their sojourn here.†   (source)
  • She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,—for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,—after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.†   (source)
  • After spending a year in England, he was returning to Halifax, on his way to a government to which he had been appointed, in the West Indies, intending to go to the place where my grand father had sojourned during and since the war, and take him with us.†   (source)
  • Felton, in his rapid walk, reviewed in his mind all the accusations against the favorite of James I and Charles I, furnished by two years of premature meditation and a long sojourn among the Puritans.†   (source)
  • Five years' sojourn between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed or dispersed the elements of fear.†   (source)
  • The Delawares have been peaceable since my sojourn with 'em, and I hold it to be onlawful to take the life of man, except in open and generous warfare."†   (source)
  • "Truly, friend; and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness," said the townsman, "to find yourself at length in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished in the sight of rulers and people, as here in our godly New England.†   (source)
  • It is time that you should return to your countrymen, to deliver up some of those stores of experimental knowledge that you have doubtless obtained by so long a sojourn in the wilds, which, however they may be corrupted by preconceived opinions, will prove acceptable bequests to those whom, as you say, you must shortly leave for ever.†   (source)
  • "You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.†   (source)
  • She had besides, more than formerly, in her face that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a prison adds to wretchedness.†   (source)
  • He brought in the maiden that had sojourned with the Delawares; and, leaving her in the cave, has put himself, like a raging wolf, at the head of his savages.†   (source)
  • On the seas they sought him, and on the islands of the seas; to-day he was in this city, to-morrow in that other; and everywhere, and at all times, he was a flitting sojourner; for, as they lived waiting for him, he lived looking for them.†   (source)
  • Ten weary years have I sojourned alone on these naked plains, waiting for my hour, and not a blow have I struck ag'in an enemy more humanised than the grizzly bear."†   (source)
  • Now, I have journeyed far, and sojourned much in good and evil with the maiden ye seek; and, though not a man of war, with my loins girded and my sword sharpened, yet would I gladly strike a blow in her behalf.†   (source)
  • …the journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the…†   (source)
  • And there they sojourned ten days in their tents; and the Red Knight made his lords and servants to do all the pleasure that they might unto Sir Beaumains.†   (source)
  • Upon my worship, said Sir Gringamore, trust unto my promise; and as long as it liketh you ye shall sojourn with me, and this lady shall be with us daily and nightly to make you all the cheer that she can.†   (source)
  • And then by the means of the damosel Savage Sir Gawaine and Sir Gareth were healed of their wounds; and there they sojourned eight days.†   (source)
  • And wit ye well that castle was garnished and furnished for a king and a queen royal there to have sojourned.†   (source)
  • And so they had all three good lodging with Sir Marhaus, and good cheer; for when he wist that they were King Arthur's sister's sons he made them all the cheer that lay in his power, and so they sojourned there a sennight, and were well eased of their wounds, and at the last departed.†   (source)
  • And at the day appointed, as the romance telleth, he came into Rome, and was crowned emperor by the pope's hand, with all the royalty that could be made, and sojourned there a time, and established all his lands from Rome into France, and gave lands and realms unto his servants and knights, to everych after his desert, in such wise that none complained, rich nor poor.†   (source)
  • They showed no recognition of her, and possibly had none, for they had been under the influence of liquor on that occasion, and were only temporary sojourners there as here.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth and her mother were passively accepted as sojourners, and shown to a small bedroom under one of the gables, where they sat down.†   (source)
  • O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots?†   (source)
  • Newson, like a good many rovers and sojourners among strange men and strange moralities, failed to perceive the enormity of Henchard's crime, notwithstanding that he himself had been the chief sufferer therefrom.†   (source)
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