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Example sentences for "sojourn"

Lexicographically close words:
sois; soit; soixante; sojer; sojers; sojourned; sojourner; sojourners; sojourneth; sojourning
  1. For the first-fruits of the sojourn in Brussels was neither Villette nor Jane Eyre, but The Professor.

  2. She does not know--after the sojourn in Brussels she does not yet know--that her right medium is prose.

  3. For them the sojourn in Brussels will still stand as the turning-point in Charlotte Brontë's career.

  4. She would have said, I think, that her sojourn in Haworth was the turning-point.

  5. During a sojourn in Switzerland she was anxious to reach the people she saw wending their way to early mass.

  6. For the greater part of our sojourn there we saw very little society, nor had my sisters a sufficient vent for a craving, which in some of them was very strong, for social intercourse and active work.

  7. Rainy, who left Huntly in 1853, after a sojourn there of four years.

  8. Her thoughts recurred to Egypt and her former pleasant sojourn there; accordingly she selected Cairo as her residence, purposing in her heart to make an attempt to bring the Gospel within reach of the Moslem women and girls.

  9. Luynes, that your sojourn in France will be attended with great peril.

  10. As Andrea had with him some store of baggage--since his sojourn at Blois was likely to be of some duration--he travelled in a coach.

  11. May your brief sojourn in this country leave you a souvenir as pleasant as the one it has already engraved in our memory and our hearts.

  12. The sojourn of the Apostle in Asia, a country governed by Magi and imbued with Zoroastrian ideas, and in those days full of Buddhist missionaries, may account for many things found in the Book of Revelation.

  13. In the crypt of the church of San Marziano at Syracuse is the primitive church of Sicily, constructed on the spot where St. Paul is said to have preached during his three days' sojourn on the island.

  14. The Mr. Foxleys, after a week's sojourn or so at the Ipswich Inn, made a mutual discovery.

  15. My own impression is that it was naturally a gray parrot and had at that time of my sojourn in New York, either been dyed or painted that peculiar pea-green which so distinguished it then.

  16. On the fourth day of Mary's sojourn at Dunbar, she, with the ladies of her train, joined in a stag hunt, which the Earl had ordered for their entertainment.

  17. During his sojourn in Rome Gounod devoted himself largely to the study of religious music, and spent a great portion of his time in perusing the works of Palestrina and Bach.

  18. During his sojourn in London he composed the cantata "Gallia," inspired by the troubles that had befallen his native land.

  19. It is natural that with recollections such as these Massenet should consider a sojourn in Rome to be fraught with great advantage to young musicians.

  20. During the sojourn of Constantine and Morsinia in Constantinople, the Turks had made no progress toward the conquest of Albania.

  21. But my dear wife will be consoled for my absence by the return of our nephew Alexis, who, I learn from my letters, is already at Athens, having wearied of his sojourn among the Italians, and will be with you before many days.

  22. I should be inconsolable if you shortened on my account a sojourn which is so agreeable.

  23. She particularly wished to avoid mistakes upon the renewal of an intimacy kept alive by a fitful correspondence during her sojourn on the Continent.

  24. And at least he has committed himself with Carry, and announced his intention to marry as soon as a sojourn somewhere has made him feel fit again.

  25. This necessarily entailed a somewhat extended sojourn in the front line area by the various brigades of the first two divisions.

  26. Marvellous to relate, he rejoined his unit in safety after his long sojourn with the dead.

  27. My fort at Fatiko was within call of two large villages--those of Gimoro and the sheik of the country: during my sojourn of seven months, I never heard a woman scream, neither was there any domestic or civil disturbance.

  28. I had lost many men from sickness during our sojourn at Tewfikeeyah, and the men were disheartened and depressed.

  29. After a week's sojourn among the Umiro, during which he had received large presents of elephants' tusks, and seventy head of oxen from the confiding natives, the treacherous ruffian gave an order to his brigands at sunset.

  30. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

  31. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, which taketh in hunting any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

  32. If a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

  33. And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood; I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

  34. Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

  35. Israelite may take to himself bondmen of "the children of the strangers" that sojourn among them; and that to such the law of the periodic release shall not be held to apply.

  36. But these precautions are only employed if the place seems suitable, and if they intend to prolong their sojourn there.

  37. The naturalist, Auguste Saint-Hilaire, during his sojourn in Brazil, himself experienced ill effects from eating it.

  38. In 1857 Marshal Vaillant presented to the Academie des Sciences some packets of cartridges containing balls which had been pierced through by the larvae of the Sirex during the sojourn of the French troops in the Crimea.

  39. Tolstoy had known such a life during a sojourn in the Caucasus.

  40. I think it must have been painted anterior to his sojourn in Rome, owing to the coldness of the coloring.

  41. If unimaginable disaster awaited him, at least he would not weaken his defences by a sojourn in the paradise of fools.

  42. She had frequently alluded to that Lodge of hers in the Dolomites and their sojourn there together, but always in the terms of romance.

  43. But what a rest that sojourn in the gay and brilliant and rich city of New York must have given you.

  44. What Rummschüttel had expected from this sojourn and the good that went with it, was realized, so far as it could be realized.

  45. As the end of her sojourn at the watering place approached, preparations were made to welcome her on her return home.

  46. The sensitive Frenchman thereupon asked for leave of absence, that a sojourn of a few months in France might restore his health.

  47. It was too late then to go to Oberammergau, so they fixed upon a sojourn on the island of Rügen.

  48. By the noon train a dear friend of mine for many years past, a daughter of our good city of Kessin, Miss Marietta Trippelli, will arrive here to sojourn in our midst till tomorrow morning.

  49. The Berlin sojourn had been a succession of happy days, chiefly because there had been no suffering from disagreeable and, one might almost say, inferior relatives.

  50. It was no misfortune that this unworthy man endured for only a few years his sojourn among the barbarians.

  51. Effi looked forward to the sojourn in Berlin with great pleasure, the more so because her father had consented that they should take lodgings in the Hotel du Nord.

  52. The foul presence of cruelty and crime violated undisturbed the scenes once sacred to the interests of tenderness and love, once hallowed by the sojourn of youth and beauty!

  53. He was obliged to lean against the stone table to preserved his equilibrium as he faintly desired the Pagan to shorten their sojourn in his miserable retreat.

  54. Her beauty had grown fresher and more woman-like during her sojourn at the farm-house.

  55. Report informed her of the new position, on the line of blockade, on which Hermanric was posted, and only enumerated as the companions of his sojourn the warriors sent thither under his command.

  56. The pair looked very much the worse for their sojourn in the other world, wherever it was, to which they had emigrated.


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