Both Uses of
sojourn
in
The Scarlet Letter
- "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.†
p. 45.3sojourn = visit
- "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.†
p. 51.2 *
Definition:
a temporary visit to a place