Both Uses of
exile
in
Arrowsmith
- And if sometimes I feel an exile, cold—I had to get out of Germany one time for refusing to sing Die Wacht am Rhein and trying to kill a cavalry captain—he was a stout fellow—I had to choke him—you see I am boasting, but I was a lifely Kerl thirty years ago!†
Chpt 4 *
- Calmed by rum swizzles, those tart and commanding aperitifs which are made in their deadly perfection only by the twirling swizzlesticks of the darkies at the Ice House bar, the exiles become peaceful, and have another swizzle, and grow certain again (as for twenty-four hours, since the last cocktail-hour, they have not been certain) that next year they will go Home.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(exile) to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be