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Example sentences for "peregrinations"

Lexicographically close words:
perdue; perdurable; perdus; pereat; peregrination; peregrines; peregrini; peremptorily; peremptoriness; peremptory
  1. Is there really a chance that in the course of our peregrinations we shall come across subterranean piles?

  2. Then he returned to his fixed idea: "'And in the course of our peregrinations is there any chance of our coming across a way out?

  3. Following our traveller in his peregrinations through the South, we next take him up on a sugar plantation on the Mississippi.

  4. We saw during our morning peregrinations many old moose-tracks, and also many spots in the woods where these animals had browsed; while a few of these moose indications were certainly of recent origin.

  5. We might start on our peregrinations from the West Gate, as we are already familiar with this point.

  6. As you know, the Land of the Morning Calm is often troubled at night by prowling leopards and huge tigers which make their peregrinations through the town in search of food.

  7. The newspapers made merry over the peregrinations of Congress.

  8. You perchance know him not by that name; but we had a language among ourselves, as well we may, for in the course of my peregrinations I have acquired precisely nine hundred and ninety-nine leash of languages.

  9. ON the afternoon of that same day Pierre, having leisure before him, at once thought of beginning his peregrinations through Rome by a visit on which he had set his heart.

  10. And it was not only with the regulars that Pierre came in contact during his peregrinations through Rome; indeed, he more particularly had to deal with the secular clergy, and learnt to know them well.

  11. At this Pierre gently interrupted him to tell him of the view which he himself had arrived at after his peregrinations and studies through Rome.

  12. I have in my peregrinations all about the world, witnessed the dignity and grandeur of the great knowledge of gods and learned men; but have never come to see any where, so holy a seer as yourself.

  13. It would not be a particularly interesting Beetle save for its metamorphoses and the peregrinations of its larva, which are similar in every respect to those of the larva of the Sitares.

  14. The visitor must have a fund of intelligent imagination and a blind eye for incongruities and then his peregrinations will be a remembered pleasure.

  15. In our peregrinations of the streets we have passed two statues neither of great merit but each perpetuating the memory of men of more than local fame.

  16. Mr Borrow was the younger son of an officer in a marching regiment; and in the course of the peregrinations of the corps, found himself located in Edinburgh Castle.

  17. In her peregrinations about London she had sometimes encountered in a certain thoroughfare a broad old man with a face marked with small-pox, who wore a fur cap and leggings.

  18. In all these peregrinations he is generally described as proceeding alone: at least we have no intimation of any army to assist in the performance of these great enterprises.

  19. Some of these persons are mentioned as proceeding in a pacific manner: but these peregrinations in general are represented as a process of war; and all that was effected, was supposed to have been by conquest.

  20. In the detail of his peregrinations is contained, in great measure, an history of that people, and of their settlements.

  21. The Pickwickians, or the Peregrinations of Sam Weller: a Comic Drama, in three acts.

  22. The Peregrinations of Pickwick: an acting drama.

  23. I am such an enthusiast, that in the course of my several peregrinations through Scotland, I made a pilgrimage to the individual spot from which every song took its rise, Lochaber and the Braes of Ballendean excepted.

  24. Many of the houses appear to be kept entirely for show, since in all my peregrinations I have never seen any human being in the upper chambers, although illuminated every night.

  25. M---- from his peregrinations is 12 or 14 years behind in his knowledge of who has or has not written good verse of late.

  26. Another quality, merely instinctive, which I developed in my lonesome peregrinations was the power of accurate tracking.

  27. I found that not only were they not cannibals, but that, taken altogether, they were the most peaceable, gentle, and kind Ainu I came across during my peregrinations through the land of the hairy people.

  28. Such are the two pictures of the Potomac which I have endeavoured to reproduce, and which fell under my observation during my professional peregrinations in connection with the practice of photography.

  29. During one of my peregrinations about town lately I stumbled upon a very ferocious doorsman.

  30. Resuming our peregrinations 'in search of the picturesque,' we now bid farewell to the county-town of Pembroke.

  31. It was during the three months of the rainy season that Buddha imparted, in a more complete manner, to his disciples the knowledge and science which during his peregrinations he had but superficially conveyed to them.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peregrinations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    expedition; journey; travel; trek; trip