All 3 Uses of
sojourn
in
The Wanderers
- 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.†
- She was buried here with the Sojourners.†
- 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.†
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Definition:
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(sojourn) a temporary visit to a place