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a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes- A pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes
- Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- monks came by on a pilgrimage, followers of Gotama, the Buddha, who were asking to be ferried across the river,Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
- I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him.Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- I decided not to take the children, so I could give myself over to the pilgrimage.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Atticus was making his slow pilgrimage to the windows, as he had been doing: he would ask a question, then look out, waiting for an answer.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night, from the Fountain of Youth.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
- But I think it won't be any kind of pilgrimage.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- Archer remained motionless, gazing at the upper windows as if the end of their pilgrimage had been attained.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- And thinking over the long pilgrimage of his past he accepted it joyfully.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- At this juncture Ralph had the happy idea of proposing to Isabel that she also, under his own escort, should make a pilgrimage to Rome.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- So in 1871 the pilgrimage of the Fisk Jubilee Singers began.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- Don't force me to fight for my life, but let me make a pilgrimage for Gareth's sake.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- This visit, this pilgrimage, made comprehensible, finally, the traces that remained and would always remain, like a needle.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- This pilgrimage can be traced in the letters of two Ohio soldiers, one a nineteen-yearold private and the other a thirty-four-year-old colonel.James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
- But for all their differences it was a romantic pilgrimage.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- They saw more rooms and made more discoveries than Mary had made on her first pilgrimage.Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
- This prostrate pilgrimage was a common occurrence in Poets' Corner, although it was far less holy than it appeared.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- We were making a pilgrimage across the fourth great ice field to see one of the more celebrated crystal cities.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
pilgrimage = journey
pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes
pilgrimage = a religious journey
pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes
pilgrimage = journey