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pilgrim
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pilgrim with a lowercase "p"

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  • I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during that first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.  (source)
    Pilgrims = The people who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620.
  • Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.  (source)
    Pilgrim = Europeans who journeyed to and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620
  • ...it starts out with this peasant--the pilgrim--wanting to find out what it means in the Bible when it says you should pray incessantly.  (source)
    pilgrim = someone on a religious journey
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  • Such that by the time the Count returned at two in the morning, though Mishka had not advanced beyond the fiftieth page, he had worn out more shoe leather than a pilgrim on the road to St. Paul's.†  (source)
  • a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims.  (source)
    Pilgrims = someone on a religious journey
  • A pilgrim is a traveler going to a spiritual place.†  (source)
  • Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims;  (source)
    pilgrims = people on a religious journey
  • Instead I knelt on the floor, feeling like a pilgrim begging advice from an all-knowing oracle.†  (source)
  • There are lots of tourists, and many pilgrims too.†  (source)
    pilgrims = people who journey to a special place -- typically as an act of religious devotion
  • These migrants don't talk of The Pilgrim's Train, or of The Iron Horse.†  (source)
  • The angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as to the land......To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles.†  (source)
  • I heard a tear fall—it was one of my grandmother's tears, and I heard it patter upon the cover of the Pilgrim Hymnal, which she held in her lap.†  (source)
  • The first week of school they learned all about the Nina and the Pinta and the Santa Maria, and Squanto and the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.†  (source)
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By the time Massasoit's son Metacomet became chief, there were no Indian-Pilgrim meals being eaten together.  (source)
Pilgrim = hose who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620
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