sojourner

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If at times a human being appeared among the prairie groves, he was not there as a sojourner--only a traveller, passing from place to place.

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  1. One who sojourns; a temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time. We are strangers before thee and sojourners, as were all our fathers. 1 Chron. xxix. 15.
  2. A guest; a visitor. We've no strangers, woman, None hut my sojourners and I. Middleton, Women Beware Women, ii. 2. Thus graciously bespoke her welcome guest:… “Welcome an owner, not a sojourner.” Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii, 704. The inhabitants of the quarter … objected to my living among them, because I was not married. … I replied that, being merely a sojourner in Egypt, I did not like either to take a wife or female slave. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 193.

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  • For a few hours longer she could ignore the whimpering ghost of her dead youth and tell herself that she was a stranger and a sojourner, a well-to-do woman with a position in the world. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • The elder Booth in every land was a sojourner, as all his fathers were. —  THE LIFE, CRIME, AND CAPTURE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
  • If at times a human being appeared among the prairie groves, he was not there as a sojourner--only a traveller, passing from place to place. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • More than this she acted in line with what appeared to be the purpose of acquiring a sympathetic control of the morals as well as the minds of the alien sojourner, the one being accompanied by a pandering to his lower nature with the doors of vice flagrantly ajar while the other armed his mentality with a Teutonized equipment and outlook. —  Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
  • If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or a sojourner, and let him live by thee. —  The first New Testament printed in English
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  1. from Middle English *sojourner, sojorner; from sojourn + -er.
 

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