All 9 Uses of
exile
in
The Lords of Discipline
- By a process of unnatural selection, I had become one of those who could summon the Corps and that fearful squad of drummers for the ceremony of exile.†
Chpt 1.1
- Distrusting the approval of the chosen, I would take the applause of exiles anytime.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself.†
Chpt 2.16exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- Something dies in me whenever I hear his low, courageous voice calling to me from the solitude of his exile.†
Chpt 2.16
- I return to the city of memory, to the city of exiled poets.†
Chpt 2.16exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- That we suffered so friendlessly, exiled among complete strangers.†
Chpt 2.17
- I pretended to study during these long periods of self-exile, these joyless voyages to the interior, but it was study that could not come from books.†
Chpt 3.22
- A plebe could never fully trust an upperclassman, could not afford to relax his guard around anyone except his classmates, who shared his station and his exile.†
Chpt 3.30
- The Bear and his wife found us in our exile.†
Chpt 4.31
Definition:
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be