All 7 Uses
exile
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- The ship was bound for the Carolinas; and you must not suppose that I was going to that place merely as an exile.†
Chpt 7 *
- But for the honour of Scotland, the poor tenant bodies take a thought upon their chief lying in exile; and this money is a part of that very rent for which King George is looking.†
Chpt 9
- At that period (so soon after the forty-five) there were many exiled gentlemen coming back at the peril of their lives, either to see their friends or to collect a little money; and as for the Highland chiefs that had been forfeited, it was a common matter of talk how their tenants would stint themselves to send them money, and their clansmen outface the soldiery to get it in, and run the gauntlet of our great navy to carry it across.†
Chpt 9exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- And since them that fed him in his exile wouldnae be bought out—right or wrong, he would drive them out.†
Chpt 12
- Not long, ye would think, with men like Ardshiel in exile and men like the Red Fox sitting birling the wine and oppressing the poor at home.†
Chpt 12
- We put the ferry-boat alongside, and the exiles leaned over the bulwarks, weeping and reaching out their hands to my fellow-passengers, among whom they counted some near friends.†
Chpt 16
- Their chief, Macgregor of Macgregor, was in exile; the more immediate leader of that part of them about Balquhidder, James More, Rob Roy's eldest son, lay waiting his trial in Edinburgh Castle; they were in ill-blood with Highlander and Lowlander, with the Grahames, the Maclarens, and the Stewarts; and Alan, who took up the quarrel of any friend, however distant, was extremely wishful to avoid them.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)