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  • The sandstone cliffs were home to Buddhist monks who carved caves in them to use as living quarters and as sanctuary for weary traveling pilgrims.†   (source)
  • Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims.†   (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)
  • We are the outcasts and deportees, strange pilgrims visiting outlandish shrines, landing at the end of tarmacs, ferried in old army trucks where we are roughly handled and taken to roped-off corners of waiting rooms where surly, barely wakened customs guards await their bribe.†   (source)
  • Another review of map skills, one week of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus in time for Columbus Day, the Pilgrims in time for Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • It would no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells, where the pilgrims arrived, relieved at the end of their long journeys.†   (source)
  • A pilgrim is a traveler going to a spiritual place.†   (source)
  • From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing sentinel beside each window, and a few unassuming white cupolas placed here and there on the roofs because they were expected and not pretty, like Pilgrim bonnets.†   (source)
  • In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians.†   (source)
  • Instead I knelt on the floor, feeling like a pilgrim begging advice from an all-knowing oracle.†   (source)
  • Last week she had told them the story of Pilgrim's Progress, drawing on every detail she could remember.†   (source)
  • We had already gone through the first, Pilgrim's Progress.†   (source)
  • He held it rigidly in front of him as if it were some kind of religious object that pilgrims might queue to touch.†   (source)
  • The Pilgrim's Train.†   (source)
  • Before we fled Bethlehem's drear libraries I had also recently read The Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, which have weaker plot lines than Dr. Jekyll, and many other books Our Father does not know about, including the poems of Miss Emily Dickinson and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe.†   (source)
  • The six other pilgrims chosen by the Shrike Church will be aboard the treeship.†   (source)
  • Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress had been assigned.†   (source)
  • Even Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales (1384), while neither they nor their tales are inevitably holy, are making an Easter pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, and much of their talk invokes the Bible and religious teaching.†   (source)
  • Beena Mol was full of pilgrims who'd had their heads shaved at Tirupati.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, they both go to Pilgrim Baptist," Mtisha said.†   (source)
  • Behind him came pilgrims from remote regions, musicians playing accordions, peddlers selling food and amulets; and for three days the ranch was overflowing with the crippled and the hopeless, who in reality did not come for the learned sermons and the plenary indulgences but for the favors of the mule who, it was said, performed miracles behind his master's back.†   (source)
  • He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness.†   (source)
  • Pausing, for a brief breath, on the threshold, I saw the silver-haired doctor who had told me about the rivers and the Pilgrims on my first day, and the pocked, cadaverous face of Miss Huey, and eyes I thought I had recognized over white masks.†   (source)
  • The scoop of brown water, fed by the winding Antietam Creek and hidden in the thick woods, was supposed to be haunted by some weird Pilgrim girl who'd drowned in it way back whenever.†   (source)
  • The town was jammed with eager pilgrims, and though we tried at all the decent boarding houses, we could not find a single room.†   (source)
  • And one imagines that the American mainland glittered for him the way it did for all those entrepreneurs and pilgrims and runaways and adventurers who crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific hoping to carve out a piece of it for themselves.†   (source)
  • Who else but a fellow pilgrim can appreciate what we must sacrifice to find the answer?†   (source)
  • After a miserable hour's ride we arrived at Rey in a dust storm and tumbled out of the car into a crowd of black-robed, elbowing, shouting pilgrims.†   (source)
  • It's a memorial for the Pilgrims.†   (source)
  • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress†   (source)
  • My dad has two beers and gets tipsy and entertains us with stories about crazy clients, and my mom keeps telling me to order whatever I want, and Izzy puts a napkin over her head and pretends to be a pilgrim tasting California rolls for the first time.†   (source)
  • "Pilgrims!" a dozen voices chimed in.†   (source)
  • I believed that everyone should be able to practice according to their own preferences and beliefs, but an awful lot of pilgrims in prison seem to be making it up as they go along, in silly ways—wearing a contraband napkin on their head one month when they're practicing Islam, and then appearing in the Buddhist meditation circle the next—after realizing that they could duck out of work for this new brand of religious observance.†   (source)
  • The man had recited the routes and streets in a manner so automatic that Brian realized many pilgrims had made the trip across the river.†   (source)
  • Evan, on his knees behind us like a pilgrim at the altar.†   (source)
  • _Mithrandir, Mithrandir_ sang the Elves, _O Pilgrim Grey!†   (source)
  • There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a Pilgrim."†   (source)
  • Thanksgiving, on the other hand, was good for the truth about the Pilgrims' lives, which wasn't only about friendly dinners with Native Americans, but instead included the Salem witch hunts, smallpox epidemics, and a nasty tendency toward incest.†   (source)
  • I was trying not to look at it, instead focusing on the plastic turkey and Pilgrims tacked up around it; Thanksgiving was two weeks away.†   (source)
  • John was delightful with the children, telling the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • It was the old quarter where the Pilgrims had lived during their years at Leyden, a connection deeply felt by Adams.†   (source)
  • Mr. Viccars knew the great cities of London and York, the bustling port life of Plymouth, and the everchanging pilgrim trade at Canterbury.†   (source)
  • She could see Pilgrim, his head erect and still, watching her all the way.†   (source)
  • It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.†   (source)
  • And each year the people of all seven forests, roughly a hundred thousand now, made the pilgrim-age to the largest forest, called the Middle Forest-Thomas's forest.†   (source)
  • The small lake reflects the slow migration of pilgrim clouds.†   (source)
  • Every year I wonder whether I should sell out and pilgrim there, to claim my ancestral seat.†   (source)
  • Some of you are young pilgrims to walk this rough waste.†   (source)
  • She shook her head, a little drawing of a turkey in a Pilgrim hat in her hand.†   (source)
  • But should have picked higher mountains or given less warning; seemed from news that some holy man followed by endless pilgrims chose to climb each target peak and hold off our retaliation by sheer spiritual strength.†   (source)
  • A dedicated hajj terminal that could process three hundred thousand pilgrims a season.†   (source)
  • He loved the churches and the pilgrims and the Haredim who shouted at him because he drove a motorcar on the Sabbath.†   (source)
  • Then Thanksgiving Day arrived, we stopped at a country store that was as well stocked as a Pilgrim feast.†   (source)
  • Her ancestors included a Spanish soldier whose caravel beached in Matanzas Inlet before the Pilgrims found their rock, and Carib Indian women, and the Minorcans who spread inland from New Smyrna in the eighteenth century.†   (source)
  • Credentials established, my fellow pilgrim pulled out of a shopping bag her own Bible and settled back to read with an aspirated sigh of pleasure and a wet smacking of lips.†   (source)
  • There were the fairy tales—Grimm, Andersen, the English, the French, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of Pilgrim's Progress and a long piece of Gulliver.†   (source)
  • The dirt road running past the school carried a steady traffic of horseback riders, buggies, cars, and strolling pilgrims to and fro in ceaseless quest of moonshine.†   (source)
  • every pilgrim and stranger was welcome,†   (source)
  • There was always a large number of pilgrims about the grove.†   (source)
  • Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields.†   (source)
  • After all, like the Pilgrims, these people came here to escape Earth.†   (source)
  • Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims;   (source)
    pilgrims = people on a religious journey
  • I peered into the locked case smudged with fingerprints from pilgrims touching the glass.†   (source)
  • It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.†   (source)
  • Our intelligence reports suggest that at least one of the seven pilgrims is an agent of the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast.†   (source)
  • I didn't have a good impression of the tourists and pilgrims.†   (source)
  • The bald pilgrims in Beena Mol began to sing another bhajan.†   (source)
  • " Now I knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians.†   (source)
  • Things abandoned long ago by pilgrims enroute to their several and collective deaths.†   (source)
  • The Pilgrims" Rest, a three-century-old inn just below the crest of the hill, had been burned.†   (source)
  • The pilgrims had been awake and watching the scenery roll by since before sunrise.†   (source)
  • For the Shrike to grant a request, the band of pilgrims must constitute a prime number.†   (source)
  • "I followed the last batch of pilgrims," he said.†   (source)
  • Het Masteen, you said that there were seven pilgrims.†   (source)
  • No. Only those who make a conscious decision to seek the Shrike may be counted among the pilgrims.†   (source)
  • The six pilgrims crowded just inside the entrance, reluctant to go farther in.†   (source)
  • Access to the Time Tombs is granted only to the so-called pilgrims.†   (source)
  • Coming back, I would stare at the pilgrims and wonder who would survive.†   (source)
  • Temple initiates used to accompany the pilgrims to the mountains.†   (source)
  • "Sol Weintraub and Fedmahn Kassad are among the seven pilgrims chosen," said Gladstone.†   (source)
  • In ancient times, the House of Hades was a major site for Greek pilgrims.†   (source)
  • Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here.†   (source)
  • Then we started home like a ragged band of pilgrims who'd failed to see the statue weep.†   (source)
  • The Pilgrims landed, camped out over us for a few weeks.†   (source)
  • "Some pilgrims found nothing," Nico said.†   (source)
  • He recalled the years of asylum that the Pilgrims had found among the Dutch.†   (source)
  • Something like the 1979 massacre at Mecca, all those pilgrims dead.†   (source)
  • Remember, this is where pilgrims came to commune with dead ancestors.†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure the Pilgrims hadn't brought it over on the Mayflower.†   (source)
  • Pilgrims could actually speak to the ghosts.†   (source)
  • He continued to speak, and some of the other monks and several pilgrims gathered about him.†   (source)
  • They've got no more stuff than pilgrims!†   (source)
  • As they moved away from the glowing recession into the darkness again, she thought of the stories she'd heard of pilgrims traveling thousands of miles to look at that golden box, thinking they were in the presence of St. Peter.†   (source)
  • When the pilgrims came to Tinos every August to visit the icon, Mr. Roussos sold rolls of film to them and developed their photos in his darkroom for a fee.†   (source)
  • When she was done cleaning up, Mama put on what passed for her one fancy outfit, the one she wore every August fifteenth, the Feast of the Dormition at the Pariagia Evangelistria Church, when pilgrims descended on Tinos from everywhere in the Mediterranean to pray before the church's famed icon.†   (source)
  • Then he started talking about the Pilgrims and Indians and who had the land after them, and what rivers ran nearby, and who had built the first hospital, and how it had burned down, and who had built the next hospital, until I thought he must be waiting to see when I would interrupt him and tell him I knew all that about rivers and Pilgrims was a lot of nonsense.†   (source)
  • The Pilgrims gave thanks at Thanksgiving because the Native Americans saved their sorry butts from starving.†   (source)
  • They, apparently, get a lot of play out of the fact their ancestors were among the early Pilgrims who settled in the New World.†   (source)
  • His ambivalence toward sex echoes that of celebrated others who embraced wilderness with single-minded passion, Thoreau (who was a lifelong virgin) and the naturalist John Muir, most prominently, to say nothing of countless lesser-known pilgrims, seekers, misfits, and adventurers.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and told King Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways.†   (source)
  • Some of them were rich pilgrims, traveling in caravans with servants and camels, but most of the people making the pilgrimage were poorer than I. "All who went there were happy at having done so.†   (source)
  • He had just finished reading Doctor Zhivago, a book that incited him to scribble excited notes in the margins and underline several passages: Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields.†   (source)
  • We breakfasted on water breads and the celebrated little cheeses of Higley, watching the pilgrims through the door of the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • As for the pilgrims, they looked much poorer than the tourists, and all seemed to be in a state of numbness, their intellect inhibited.†   (source)
  • She wondered what had caused the bald pilgrims to vomit so uniformly, and whether they had vomited together in a single, well-orchestrated heave (to music perhaps, to the rhythm of a bus bhajan), or separately, one at a time.†   (source)
  • They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.†   (source)
  • By then, it was dark, but from their windows as we ate the late supper they fixed us, we could see the lights of the chapel where pilgrims were keeping their vigil.†   (source)
  • Crew and pilgrims pressed to the rail to stare at smoldering embers of what once had been a city of twenty thousand people.†   (source)
  • The lapis sky melted into the reds and golds of sunset, illuminating their hilltop and setting the pilgrims" skins aglow with liquid light.†   (source)
  • When th priest quit reading, the six pilgrims at the table raised their faces toward him as if they were awakening from a common dream.†   (source)
  • The windwagon reached the port of Pilgrims" Rest in midafternoon but the storm and tired light made it feel like late evening to the weary passengers.†   (source)
  • Each must know what the Consul knew; only a group comprising a prime number of pilgrims might make the Shrike Church-sponsored trip north.†   (source)
  • The snow line came down to a point just above the collection of burned-out hovels and cheap hotels which had been Pilgrims" Rest.†   (source)
  • When I meet them this time, I will kill them:" The other pilgrims did not speak or look at one another as Kassad went below.†   (source)
  • Kilometers below and behind they caught a final glimpse of the station, the haunted hovels of Pilgrims" Rest, and the motionless windwagon.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he vented his frustration on the medical and scientific specialists who came to examine Rachel like streams of pilgrims to a holy shrine.†   (source)
  • "The other pilgrims have agreed to ferry down in your ship if the FORCE authorities give permission," added the Templar.†   (source)
  • His fellow pilgrims, who had seemed gray and small in the dim light of half a minute earlier, now glowed in the gold of sunset.†   (source)
  • The Shrike pilgrims were subdued, as if still contemplating Colonel Kassad's grim and confusing tale.†   (source)
  • The pilgrims watched in silence until the first icy raindrops drove them below to the large stateroom in the stern.†   (source)
  • The pilgrims heaped their luggage in the center of the wide floor and stomped around, waved their arms, or otherwise worked to stay warm.†   (source)
  • "Your fellow pilgrims," announced Het Masteen as he and the Consul emerged onto a broad platform where a small group waited at one end of a long wooden table.†   (source)
  • In the silence which followed the announcement, Her Masteen gestured and a group of crew clones began serving the pilgrims their last meal before planetfall.†   (source)
  • Worst of all, from the pilgrims" point of view, was the destruction of the Naiad River Station-the harness dock lay burned and sagging, the manta holding pens open to the river.†   (source)
  • More than eight thousand of Art's pilgrims seeking escape from the tyranny of mediocrity and searching for a renewal of vision on this rough-hewn world.†   (source)
  • What if we go as pilgrims?†   (source)
  • During his eleven years as Consul on that distant and enigmatic world, the mysterious Church of the Shrike had allowed a dozen barges of offworld pilgrims to depart for the windswept barrens around the Time Tombs, north of the mountains.†   (source)
  • A week before word came that the Hegemony would allow the Yggdrasill to sail with pilgrims for the war zone near Hyperion, I used a Temple farcaster to "cast to Renaissance Vector where I spent an hour alone in the archives there.†   (source)
  • To this day records of early Shrike pilgrims tell of the gaunt figure, all hair and rags and bulging eyes, who would wake them from their Gethsemane sleep by screaming obscenities and shaking his fist at the silent Time Tombs, daring the coward within to show itself.†   (source)
  • The approach to the foothills and the first sight of the Bridle Range was as exciting as any ! andfall and brought all six of the would-be pilgrims on deck despite the cold rain which continued to fall.†   (source)
  • The Consul had expected representatives from the Shrike Temple to meet them here at the beginning of the penultimate stage of their journey but Pilgrims" Rest appeared to the Consul to be as empty as Edge had been.†   (source)
  • An almost invisible darkening hung above the horizon to the north and east, and those pilgrims who had lived on ocean worlds and knew it as a promise of the approaching sea had to remind themselves that the only sea now near was comprised of several billion acres of grass.†   (source)
  • There in the Master's Rock, where perfect satori had eluded so many much worthier pilgrims, I achieved it through the memory of a not quite sixteen-year-old womanchild's body lying next to mine while moonlight spilled from a Thomas Hawk's wings.†   (source)
  • The team of nine archaeologists and six physicists had found Keep Chronos fascinating but far too crowded with tourists and would-be Shrike pilgrims, so after the first month spent commuting from the hotel, they had set up a permanent camp between the ruined city and the small canyon holding the Time Tombs.†   (source)
  • In the courtyard of Castel Gandolfo he had seen the Pope on a balcony making the same speech in seven languages for a crowd of pilgrims and the only thing, indeed, that had drawn his attention was the whiteness of his hands, which seemed to have been soaked in lye, the dazzling shine of his summer clothing, and the hidden breath of cologne.†   (source)
  • I thought the Pilgrims did that.†   (source)
  • As his mother said, "The Pilgrims are coming up in the world,' The honeymoon was taking place in the bittersweet mysteries of Indian summer in New England.†   (source)
  • Then the father comes home, and apparently he loves beggars and pilgrims, too, and they all sit down to dinner.†   (source)
  • …under the radiant light in the garden because there she did not talk about fearful things but would brush his teeth with charcoal powder so that he would have the radiant smile of a Pope, and she would cut and polish his nails so that the pilgrims who came to Rome from all over the world would be startled at the beauty of the Pope's hands as he blessed them, and she would comb his hair like that of a Pope, and she would sprinkle his body and his clothing with toilet water so that his…†   (source)
  • Pilgrims on their own quest.†   (source)
  • It seemed like every open piece of wall had a Thanksgiving decoration taped to it, turkeys and Pilgrims and corn husks, and you got the sense that holidays there were imperative, important, because there wasn't much else to look forward to.†   (source)
  • Do you remember who the Pilgrims were?†   (source)
  • Now I saw in my dream that by this time the pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground and entering into the country ofBeulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant; the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season.†   (source)
  • In the center of a plaza was an olympic-size pool surrounded by shouting pilgrims attempting to get to the edge of the water to perform their ritual, pre-prayer ablutions.†   (source)
  • Leyden was the cleanest city she had ever seen in her life; and if Braintree in Essex had failed to evoke feelings of ancestral ties, the church of the Pilgrims at Leyden more than made up for it.†   (source)
  • "You bet," Clancy said, and talked for the next hour and a half about how the Pilgrims interacted with the native tribes, about Jamestown, about all the things my mother used to teach at her high school.†   (source)
  • "Pilgrims?" he continued.†   (source)
  • But when the Pilgrims came along—†   (source)
  • To New Englanders it was very nearly sacred ground, as the place where the English separatists known as the Pilgrims had found refuge in the seventeenth century, settling at Leyden for twelve years before embarking for Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • The pilgrims believed that each level of the temple brought you closer to the Underworld, until the dead would appear before you.†   (source)
  • Anyway, ever since we inspired the Pilgrims, my twelve bodyguards have been insufferably proud of themselves.†   (source)
  • He couldn't read Ancient Greek, but he guessed they were prayers or supplications to the dead, written by pilgrims thousands of years ago.†   (source)
  • Along with the pilgrims and the old people going home, there rode in turistica half a dozen pairs of mothers and daughters-these seemed to take up the most room.†   (source)
  • They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims.†   (source)
  • There you pilgrims shall spent the night, for there is enough space for the innumerable, who flock here, to hear the teachings from his mouth.†   (source)
  • To the departure of the pilgrims!†   (source)
  • The pilgrims were getting close to Vasudeva's ferry, when little Siddhartha once again forced his mother to rest.†   (source)
  • But tell us, oh mother of the pilgrims, do you know him, the Buddha, have you seen him with your own eyes?†   (source)
  • To the departure of the pilgrims!†   (source)
  • They thanked and left and hardly had to ask for directions, for rather many pilgrims and monks as well from Gotama's community were on their way to the Jetavana.†   (source)
  • Now, though, with the passage of countless travelers, caused by the presence of the Enlightened One, who taught the Way of the Eightfold Path, the Festival of Alundil attracted so many pilgrims that local accommodations were filled to overflowing.†   (source)
  • But they met and spoke with other travelers upon the road, so that, before the summer had passed, pilgrims coming to the purple grove were asking to meet this disciple of the Buddha's, and to hear his words also.†   (source)
  • He came to the river and asked the old man to ferry him over, and when they got off the boat on the other side, he said to the old man: "You're very good to us monks and pilgrims, you have already ferried many of us across the river.†   (source)
  • A long time ago, she had retired from her previous life, had given her garden to the monks of Gotama as a gift, had taken her refuge in the teachings, was among the friends and benefactors of the pilgrims.†   (source)
  • These migrants don't talk of The Pilgrim's Train, or of The Iron Horse.†   (source)
  • Now Sean was up half the night, every other night, reading The Pilgrim's Progress …. aloud.†   (source)
  • Back in 1678, John Bunyan wrote an allegory called The Pilgrim's Progress.†   (source)
  • No. A pilgrim must come to the Tombs of his or her own free will.†   (source)
  • The sixth pilgrim and only woman at the table was Brawne Lamia.†   (source)
  • It was these records that brought the Grey Pilgrim to us.†   (source)
  • Cardboard turkeys and black Pilgrim hats were taped to the first-floor windows of Gracie's house.†   (source)
  • 'You guys go on without me,' said Billy Pilgrim deliriously, as pretty little Lily came in.†   (source)
  • It's something called 'The Way of a Pilgrim.'†   (source)
  • The sackcloth dead slitting a pilgrim's throat.†   (source)
  • But Grace could see Pilgrim wasn't going to allow any such thing.†   (source)
  • It didn't just start with the little pilgrim's crowd, I mean.†   (source)
  • When Tom saw he had it straight in his head, the two of them went over toward Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • In time, Montana came to love and trust Billy Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • Primeval bubbles surfaced it with lethargical majesty as Billy Pilgrim stared.†   (source)
  • Pilgrim tried to move and found himself crippled.†   (source)
  • I once went to every Army & Navy store in New York looking for a nice, pilgrim-type rucksack.†   (source)
  • On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • The sun had long gone by the time they had Pilgrim back in his stall and it was getting cold.†   (source)
  • I mean I loved the pilgrim wanting to know who all the ladies were.†   (source)
  • Sam had called an Uber car to get us from the Pilgrim Monument.†   (source)
  • The pilgrim, a professor, a monk, and some sort of hermit all meet and hash over things.†   (source)
  • There was one among them though who was always alone and now Annie could see it was Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • It looked like a Sunday school picture of Heaven to Billy Pilgrim.†   (source)
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