So pilgrims on the scorching sand, Beneath a burning sky, Long for a cooling stream at hand, And they must drink or die.
As the benightedpilgrims wait, And long, and wish for breaking day, So waits my soul before thy gate; When will my God his face display?
We must never forget that Mohammedan pilgrims from India visit Jerusalem, just as Christian pilgrims visit it from Europe.
Through the ages, the children of the promise have been journeying toward the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, and they have confessed themselves pilgrims and strangers in this present world.
On either side of the vestibule stood groups of the various sects of Brahma and of Bhudda, while pilgrims and faquirs, with the chief casts of Lahore, filled the bottom of the vast and mighty hall.
Thus it is always; objects which pilgrims come half across the world to see, we regard with indifference at our own doors.
An old cathedral, still standing, was built before the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock.
Peter's chair, wrote to the holy abbot, commending himself to his prayers, and sent him beds and money for his hospital, for the use of pilgrims to Mount Sinai.
He furnished for the purpose a room in the house, and went to the gate of the city every Saturday to bring home with him the first five pilgrims whom he encountered.
The number of these pilgrims of sorrow was countless.
But the Pilgrims helped the sailors to place a heavy piece of wood under one of the deck beams and saved the vessel from going to pieces.
Unlike the poor and humble Pilgrims were the founders of Massachusetts.
With him the Pilgrims made a treaty which both parties obeyed for more than fifty years.
For nearly a month the Pilgrims explored the shores of Cape Cod Bay.
So the Pilgrims determined to found a colony in America.
The Pilgrims held their services in the building on the left, now used as a cow-house.
This was true enough, so the Pilgrims drew up and signed a compact which obliged the signers to obey whatever was decided to be for the public good.
He easily procured land for thePilgrims in northern Virginia, near the Dutch settlements (p.
For months the Pilgrims lived on the ship while working parties built the necessary huts on shore.
The Pilgrims cared for him most kindly as long as he lived.
Nowadays Bidford is chiefly distinguished as a resort of Shakespearian pilgrims and excursionists.
Hooker's pilgrims were soon followed by the Dorchester and Watertown congregations, and by the next May 800 people were living in Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield.
He was naturally regarded with ill favour by the Pilgrims as well as by the later Puritan settlers, and their accounts of him will probably bear taking with a grain or two of salt.
In spite of the relief from persecution, however, the Pilgrims were not fully satisfied with their new home.
This decision, which we may ascribe to Robinson's wise counsels, served to keep the society of Pilgrims from getting divided and scattered.
Down to this time, since the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the settlers of New England had been in no way molested by the natives.
Sidenote: The Pilgrims at Leyden decide to make a settlement near the Delaware river] The congregation at Leyden did not think it wise to cut loose from Holland until they should have secured a foothold in America.
But the alliance between the Pilgrimsand these London merchants was not altogether comfortable; there was too much divergence between their aims.
But in the case of the little colony founded by the Pilgrims of the Mayflower there was no obstacle.
After a brief stop at Southampton, where they met the Mayflower with friends from London, the Pilgrims again set sail in the two ships.
Sidenote: Why the colony was not attacked by the Indians] It was a fortunate miscalculation that brought the Pilgrims to New England.
When the long winter came to an end, fifty-one of the hundred Pilgrims had died,--a mortality even greater than that before which the Popham colony had succumbed.
Massasoit's treaty with the Pilgrims was scrupulously observed on both sides, and kept the Wampanoags quiet for fifty-four years.
These Pilgrimsof the Mayflower were but the pioneers of a mighty host.
The Pilgrims realized they were themselves exiles from intolerance.
A letter came with these ships, from the general company in England, subscribed by thirteen names representing those who in that body were friendly toward the Pilgrimsand were sending them this accession of people.
In 1629 another Mayflower vessel brought to Plymouth thirty-five more Pilgrims from Leyden via the new settlement of Salem, and later a smaller number followed, but poorer and less capable, though worthy persons all.
A day of prayer was appointed, in which the Pilgrims engaged earnestly for eight or nine hours, until a general cloudiness overspread the sky.
When the pilgrimsformed to go home, however, I began to realize that I had run away and that most likely the consequences would be equally unpleasant whether I kept on running away or returned home.
The pool, with its healing waters and the throng of pilgrims who dipped their sores in it, did sadden and sicken me, and to this day I never see a wound without having that scene recalled to my mind.
This water cured all manner of diseases, and many grateful pilgrims had enriched the monastery in whose centre the spring bubbled.
Twas the same little fatal and mystical word That now, like a mirage, led my lady and lord To the waters of Ems from the waters of Marah; Drooping Pilgrims in Fashion's blank, arid Sahara!
The pilgrims looked whence it should proceed, but closed their eyes with a thrill of awful admiration, to exclude the fervid splendor that glowed from the brow of a cliff impending over the enchanted lake.
When other pilgrims reached the cliff, they found only an opaque stone, with particles of mica glittering on its surface.
It was Phryne, the famous beauty of Athens, appearing naked before the crowd of pilgrimson the beach of Delphi.
There never was a reception of pilgrims in Saint Peter's with a triumphal march of the Pope carried on a platform amid feather fans, at which Josephina was not present.
The next march was awful; and in more than one place, half hidden by the flowers forcing their way through the snow, lay the corpses of pilgrims who had succumbed to the cold and the exposure.
We journeyed slowly to Amar-nath, watching the pilgrims pass us by on the road, but catching them up again each evening after long rambles over the hills in search of rare plants.
The same number of pilgrimschant the same songs; the men only are no longer the same.
This is the most venerated of all the sacred places of the Hindus, which is no doubt owing to its distance from Hindustan, the dangers and fatigues of the journey, and the necessity of pilgrims providing themselves with money and provisions.
The population is the reverse of autochthonous; it is composed of natives of Hadramaut and Yemen, Indians from Surat and Bombay, and Malays who come as pilgrims and settle in the town.
Although many pilgrims and travellers had successively visited the Holy Land and Syria, the vaguest notions about these countries prevailed.
The Chinese pilgrims to India give a good account of their itinerary and experiences, but they have little idea of investigating and arranging past events and merely recount traditions connected with the places which they visited.
But the Chinese pilgrims do not mention his worship.
At Bodh-Gaya I have been told that Hindu pilgrims are taken by their guides to venerate the Bodhi-tree but not the images of Buddha.
Both pilgrims mention the names of several celebrities connected with Nalanda.
It would seem that in the estimation of both pilgrims the Maha-and Hinayana are not schools but modes in which any school can be studied.
Tantras are not mentioned by the Chinese pilgrims and the lexicon Amara Kosha (perhaps c.
Except for progressive decay, the condition of Indian Buddhism as described by the two pilgrims is much the same.
The spot attracts a considerable number of pilgrims from Bengal, and a wealthy devotee has built a villa on the hill and pays visits to it for the purpose of taking part in the rites.
At Pandharpur pilgrims visit first a temple of Śiva and then the principal shrine.
But when the records of the Chinese pilgrims commence we are in touch with something more solid.
His pupils frequent it and may become semi-resident: aged pilgrims may make it their last home, but the inmates are not a permanent body following a fixed rule like the monks of a Vihâra.
It was in 1620 that the good ship Mayflower arrived at Plymouth with Robinson's first batch ofpilgrims from Holland on their way across the Atlantic.
When the bones of this canonised king began to work miraculous cures, there was a rush of pilgrims to the town, which at one time contained twelve churches.
Groups of white-garbed pilgrims from distant cities passed on to worship, their tinkling bells keeping time to the soft pad of their sandaled feet.
Then the constable said, for the third time, "Now tell me, holy father, do pilgrims to Canterbury wear good Lincoln green beneath their robes?
It was a long way back to the little farm-house, and when at last the three weary pilgrims reached it, they were met by an indignant chorus of protests from all the creatures which had been left behind.
And once more the little pilgrims took up their journey.
At length with much toil, the pilgrims reached the village of Capernaum, where being hardly beset by the robbers, they were constrained to tarry, until they could obtain a safe escort from the Emir at Antioch.
Under her benign administration the pilgrims had access to the holy places, and protection in the practice of all the rites of Christianity.
Our pilgrims were moved with exceeding joy even to overflowing as regarded this new crusader, on account of the sense and the prowess that were his.
A band of pilgrims were encamped upon the other side, and at the sight of the Norman pennon, they sent forth a piteous cry for aid.
But insult and outrage awaited the pilgrims in Palestine, and in Jerusalem itself they encountered the scoffing taunts of idolatry and infidelity.
The following month, having provided for the safe return of the soldiers and pilgrims who had accompanied him on his fruitless expedition, he himself last of all, in the disguise of a Templar, sailed from the port of Acre.
It was established in 1119, for the protection of the pilgrims on the roads in Palestine.
The total number of pilgrims was seven thousand, and among the leaders are the names respectable for rank of the Archbishop of Mayence and the Bishops of Bamberg, Ratisbon, and Utrecht.
The journeys the pilgrims have to make are often long and tedious, their length being often proportioned to the value of the boon to be acquired.
In these pilgrimages the Afghan predecessors of the Mughal had recognised a large and permanent source of revenue, and they had imposed, therefore, a tax on all pilgrims according to the ascertained or reputed means of each.
Other pilgrims had also engaged passage at Antwerp for Corunna, the harbour of Compostella, and her means were sufficient for the voyage.
Many other votive pictures, the pilgrims at the inn, and a priest whom she questioned, confirmed it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilgrims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
