All 8 Uses of
sojourn
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Mr. Voight before so very long-it happened during a sojourn home of Mr. MacLain, she remembered-was transferred to travel another seven states, ending the problem; and yet Mr. Voight had done something that amounted to more than going naked under his robe and calling alarm like a turkey gobbler, it was more belligerent; and the least describable thing of all had been a look on his face; that was strange.†
Story 3.27
- Her arms dropped back to the mossiness, and she was Mr. MacLain's Doom, or Mr. MacLain's Weakness, like the rest, and neither Mrs. Junior Holifield nor Mattie Will Sojourner; now she was something she had always heard of.†
Story 3.28
- God help me, the name Sojourner was laid on my head like the top teetering crown of a pile of things to remember.†
Story 3.30 *
- Not to forget, never to forget the name of Sojourner.†
Story 3.30
- She slept sitting up in the car going home, where her mama, now large-eyed, maiden name Sojourner, sat up listening.†
Story 3.30
- There's the old lady that watches the turn of the road, thought the old countrymen, Sissums and Sojourners and Holifields, passing in trucks or wagons on Saturday, going home, lifting their hats.†
Story 3.32
- She was buried here with the Sojourners.†
Story 3.32
- She smiled, biting the seed in the pepper grass), back past the drunk Simon Sojourner that didn't want her, and on to embarrassed Mr. Mabry, behind whom waited loud, harmless, terrifying Mr. Nesbitt who wanted to stand up for her.†
Story 3.32
Definition:
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(sojourn) a temporary visit to a place