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  • Vol. 116 (1986); “New Books are Aimed at Children (Peregrinations).”

    Gerda Weissmann Klein. 2009

  • I shall not try the Patience of your Audience with Particulars of these Peregrinations, but only say that, whilst the ghostly State hath many Advantages, many also are the Duties & necessary Obsequies that a true Ghost must perform in the Spirit World.

    "Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Pinto's own title for his book was The Peregrinations, and that seems to say something different from Travels.

    A Picaresque Hero Spence, Jonathan D. 1990

  • 'Travels' sounds either purposeful or at least touristic, whereas 'Peregrinations' can begin and end anywhere, can change purpose and goal constantly, or indeed lack them altogether.

    A Picaresque Hero Spence, Jonathan D. 1990

  • My Time, in these tedious Peregrinations, hangs heavily upon me.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1774 1963

  • D. THEOD.RUS KETJES, by his many Peregrinations, a most famous Phisician, and an happy Practitioner of Medicine at Amsterdam,

    The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

  • Peregrinations of the Apostles, the deaths of the Martyrs, the Sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgement) lawful Councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • Peregrinations thro’ Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that Kingdom

    On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations 1909

  • For we cannot deny the Church of GOD both in Asia and Africa, if we do not forget the Peregrinations of the Apostles, the deaths of the Martyrs, the Sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgement) lawful Councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours.

    Paras 36-70 1909

  • Virginia into the first part of his celebrated _Peregrinations_, illustrating it from the surveys of Hariot and the paintings of John

    England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

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