All 9 Uses of
sojourn
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Even the character and accent of the two peoples had shades of difference, despite the amalgamating effects of a roundabout railway; so that, though less than twenty miles from the place of her sojourn at Trantridge, her native village had seemed a far-away spot.†
Chpt 2sojourn = visit
- It was intrinsically different from the Vale of Little Dairies, Blackmoor Vale, which, save during her disastrous sojourn at Trantridge, she had exclusively known till now.†
Chpt 3
- But with living on there, day after day, the acute sojourner became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle.†
Chpt 3 *sojourner = someone who visits a place
- The dairy-house, so humble, so insignificant, so purely to him a place of constrained sojourn that he had never hitherto deemed it of sufficient importance to be reconnoitred as an object of any quality whatever in the landscape; what was it now?†
Chpt 4sojourn = visit
- The lovers did not rise at milking-time, having through the whole of this last week of their sojourn at the dairy been accorded something of the position of guests, Tess being honoured with a room of her own.†
Chpt 4
- She had, in fact, reached Flintcomb-Ash, the place of Marian's sojourn.†
Chpt 5
- They showed no recognition of her, and possibly had none, for they had been under the influence of liquor on that occasion, and were only temporary sojourners there as here.†
Chpt 5
- The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.†
Chpt 6sojourned = visited
- Thence he went along the verge of the upland overhanging the other Hintocks, and, turning to the right, plunged into the bracing calcareous region of Flintcomb-Ash, the address from which she had written to him in one of the letters, and which he supposed to be the place of sojourn referred to by her mother.†
Chpt 7sojourn = visit
Definition:
a temporary visit to a place