All 4 Uses of
pilgrimage
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Larry's mother, Mitzy Lish, had honey-colored, slightly sticky-looking hair—it was coiffed in a bouffant style—and her complexion was much improved by a suntan; in the winter months, when she'd not just returned from her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica, her skin turned a shade sallow.†
p. 378.0
- But she maintained the Fifth Avenue apartment with a vengeance; and included in her alimony was the expense of her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica—always at a time in the winter when her complexion had become intolerable to her—and a summer rental in the Hamptons (because not even Fifth Avenue was any fun in July and August).†
p. 379.4
- If Owen had told me about his dream, I might have found the hymn especially ominous; but as it was, it was simply familiar—a frequent choice, probably be cause it was victorious in tone, and squarely in that category of "pilgrimage and conflict," which is often so inspiring to young men.†
p. 421.0
- /—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan..../These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.'†
p. 513.5 *
Definition:
a journey to a special place -- especially a sacred place for religious purposes