All 50 Uses
pilgrim
in
Slaughterhouse-Five
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- It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.†
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- Two Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.†
Chpt 2
- Last came Billy Pilgrim, empty-handed, bleakly ready for death.†
Chpt 2
- Weary had told Billy Pilgrim about the Iron Maiden, about the drain in the bottom-and what that was for.†
Chpt 2
- And the crucifix went up on the wall of Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 2
- Roland Weary warned Billy Pilgrim as they moved out.†
Chpt 2
- He had made Billy Pilgrim admire that picture several times.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim had stopped in the forest.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim was having a delightful hallucination.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim went on skating, doing tricks in sweat-socks, tricks that most people would consider impossible-making turns, stopping on a dime and so on.†
Chpt 2
- Billy Pilgrim had not heard this anecdote.†
Chpt 3
- Billy Pilgrim loved them.†
Chpt 3
- The date on the license plate was 1967, which would make Billy Pilgrim forty-four years old.†
Chpt 3
- Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care.†
Chpt 3
- That was all right with Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 3
- Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present and the future.†
Chpt 3
- I certainly am,' said Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 3
- The doctor hoped that this would relieve a complaint that Billy had: Every so often, for no apparent reason, Billy Pilgrim would find himself weeping.†
Chpt 3
- There was a crippled man down there, as spastic in space as Billy Pilgrim was in time.†
Chpt 3
- 'Oh,' said Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 3
- Billy Pilgrim was packed into a boxcar with many other privates.†
Chpt 3
- They opened the next car instead, and Billy Pilgrim was enchanted by what was in there.†
Chpt 3
- Billy Pilgrim's train, the longest train of all, did not move for two days.†
Chpt 3
- The locomotive of Billy Pilgrim's train whistled back.†
Chpt 3
- Billy Pilgrim nestled like a spoon with the hobo on Christmas night, and he fell asleep, and he traveled in time to 1967 again-to the night he was kidnapped by a flying saucer from Tralfamadore.†
Chpt 3
- Four Billy Pilgrim could not sleep on his daughters wedding night.†
Chpt 4
- Billy Pilgrim padded downstairs on his blue and ivory feet.†
Chpt 4
- And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed.†
Chpt 4
- It was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore, navigating in both space and time, therefore seeming to Billy Pilgrim to have come from nowhere all at once.†
Chpt 4
- 'Welcome aboard, Mr. Pilgrim,' said the loudspeaker.†
Chpt 4
- ' That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment.†
Chpt 4
- Pilgrim,' said a person he was about to nestle with, 'is that you?†
Chpt 4
- I'll shut up when Pilgrim gets away from here.†
Chpt 4
- , Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- Nearly everybody seemingly, had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done to him in his sleep.†
Chpt 4
- Everybody told Billy Pilgrim to keep the hell away.†
Chpt 4
- So Billy Pilgrim had to sleep standing up, or not sleep at all.†
Chpt 4
- , which was this: "Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- Billy Pilgrim was lying at an angle on the corner-brace, self-crucified, holding himself there with a blue and ivory claw hooked over the —sill of the ventilator.†
Chpt 4
- The coat that Billy Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen in such a way, and was so small, that it appeared to be not a coat but a sort of large black, three-cornered hat.†
Chpt 4
- Lazzaro, too, had been on Roland Weary's boxcar, and had given his word of honor to Weary that he would find some way to make Billy Pilgrim pay for Weary's death.†
Chpt 4
- 'Where am I?' said Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- Trapped in another blob of amber, Mr. Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- 'You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will,' said Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 4
- Five Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore.†
Chpt 5
- They see them as great millipedes with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,' says Billy Pilgrim.†
Chpt 5
- Billy Pilgrim dressed himself.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(pilgrim with a lowercase "p") someone who journeys to a special place -- typically a difficult journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun (capitalized), Pilgrim refers specifically to those who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620.