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Sentences starting with pilgrims

Pilgrims were too much given to chipping off pieces of it to carry home. [5]
Pilgrims in better circumstances are often stricken down by the sun and the fevers of the country, and then their saving refuge is the Convent. [5]

Sentences ending with pilgrims

It is polished with the kisses of many generations of worshiping pilgrims. [5]
It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. [5]
The first thing we struck that day was a procession of pilgrims. [5]
Nothing could move the pilgrims. [5]
So we have struck an inconsistency here --one says it was the landing, the other says it was the Pilgrims. [5]
It was a pitiable sight, truly pitiable, yet so vast, so far beyond the possibility of relief, that many single sorrows of small dimensions have wrought upon my feelings more than the sight of this great caravan of maimed pilgrims. [6]
She squandered millions of francs on a navy which she did not need, and the first time she took her new toy into action she got it knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite--to use the language of the Pilgrims. [5]
Many things reminded me that I was no longer in the land of the Pilgrims. [6]
Troops of horsemen in white woollen cloaks, sheikhs and Bedouins with flowing robes and huge turbans, religious chiefs of the great sects, imperturbable and statuesque, were in strange contrast to the shouting dervishes and camel-drivers and eager pilgrims. [11]
Every day had filled his purse, because there was no lack of people and he understood how to extort money by the terror which horrible outbreaks of his feigned malady inspired among the densely crowded pilgrims. [10]

Short sentences using pilgrims

Our pilgrims broke off specimens. [5]

Sentences containing pilgrims two or more times

Your pardon: the gentleman at my left assures me that you are not celebrating the Pilgrims themselves, but the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth rock on the 22d of December. [5]

More example sentences with the word pilgrims in them

If the pilgrims would take deliberate aim and shoot at a man, it would be all right and proper--because that man would not be in any danger; but these random assaults are what I object to. [5]
The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. [5]
In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
The two Napoleons were offered--more if necessary--and pilgrims and dragoman shouted themselves hoarse with pleadings to the retreating boatmen to come back. [5]
Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
By day it was much used by pilgrims, and the Roman could not miss it even by night, for the mule he was riding knew it well. [10]
All the pilgrims visit Simon the Tanner's house. [5]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
Our pilgrims compress too much into one day. [5]
They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims have descended. [5]
Pilgrims, always prone to find prophecies in the Bible, and often where none exist, speak cheerfully and complacently of poor, ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy. [5]
It is not to be supposed that the Pilgrims had an adequate conception of the continent, or of the magnitude of their mission on it, or of the nation to come of which they were laying the foundations. [4]
Well, I repeat, those Pilgrims were a hard lot. [5]
He relates in this volume the story of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the years following, and of the settlement of the Somers Isles, making himself appear as a kind of Providence over the New World. [4]
The sufferings of this colony in the summer equaled that of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in the winter and spring. [4]
Lest any man think I mean to be ill-natured when I talk about our pilgrims as I have been talking, I wish to say in all sincerity that I do not. [5]
All day long there are pilgrims to it, and John likes nothing better than to watch them. [4]
Peace fell upon the travelers like a garment, and although they had as much difficulty in landing their baggage as the early Pilgrims had in getting theirs ashore, the circumstance was not able to disquiet them much. [4]
Their figures against the setting sun took on a strange burnished radiance, so that they seemed as mystical pilgrims journeying into that golden haze, which veiled them in beyond the hill, as the Angelus sounded from the tower of the ancient church. [11]
The mortality of the season that followed the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth has been sufficiently accounted for. [3]
Clarke's Island (where the Pilgrims heard a sermon on the first Sunday), Saguish Point, and Gurnett Headland (showing now twin white lights) appear like a long island intersected by thin lines of blue water. [4]
The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us. [5]
We entered, and the pilgrims broke specimens from the foundation walls, though they had to touch, and even step, upon the "praying carpets" to do it. [5]
We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. [5]
For instance: "During the past few years competent observers declare that the number of pilgrims to Benares has increased. [5]
The Pilgrims of the Mayflower had with them a good physician, a man of standing, a deacon of their church, one whom they loved and trusted, Dr. Samuel Fuller. [3]
When he died the last time, he distinctly remembered the landing of the Pilgrims, which took place in 1620. [5]
The slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem was done in a grotto; the Saviour was born in a grotto--both are shown to pilgrims yet. [5]
Let us average the ages of the Quaker City's pilgrims and set the figure down as fifty years. [5]
It was reported that the Consul had requested that no more of our pilgrims should go to the Jordan while this state of things lasted; and further, that he was unwilling that any more should go, at least without an unusually strong military guard. [5]
I desire to thank the Pilgrims of New York also for their kind notice and message which they have cabled over here. [5]
The pilgrims will tell of Palestine, when they get home, not as it appeared to them, but as it appeared to Thompson and Robinson and Grimes--with the tints varied to suit each pilgrim's creed. [5]
In a calm summer morning, such as our party of pilgrims chose for an excursion to the Pier, there is no prettier sail in the world than that out of the harbor, by Conanicut Island and Beaver-tail Light. [4]
There in Moscow she was deprived of her greatest pleasures--talks with the pilgrims and the solitude which refreshed her at Bald Hills--and she had none of the advantages and pleasures of city life. [2]
The long, curved sand-spit-which was heavily wooded when the Pilgrims landed-was silvery also, and upon its northern tip glowed the white sparkle in the lighthouse like the evening-star. [4]
What the pilgrims said at Cesarea Philippi surprised me with its wisdom. [5]
The walls and roof of this grotto still weep bitter tears in memory of the event that transpired on Calvary, and devout pilgrims groan and sob when these sad tears fall upon them from the dripping rock. [5]
The Pilgrims of Plymouth could see no way of shaping their lives in accordance with the higher law except by separating themselves from the world. [4]
Such was the place which the advent of Emerson made the Delphi of New England and the resort of many pilgrims from far-off regions. [6]
He orders these pilgrims to be driven away, but she receives them. [2]
Groups of gazing pilgrims stood around all and every of these strange objects, lost in reverent wonder, and envious of the fleckless sanctity which these pious austerities had won for them from an exacting heaven. [5]
This company of pilgrims resembled Chaucer's in this: that it had in it a sample of about all the upper occupations and professions the country could show, and a corresponding variety of costume. [5]
Speaking of our pilgrims reminds me that we have one or two people among us who are sometimes an annoyance. [5]
Some of these pilgrims here become, in effect, cabinets; cabinets of souvenirs of Bayreuth. [5]
Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. [5]
The throng of pilgrims grew a vague mass; no longer an army of individuals; and the music came floating back with distant charm. [11]
We satisfied our pilgrims by making those hard rides from Baalbec to Damascus, but Dan's horse and Jack's were so crippled we had to leave them behind and get fresh animals for them. [5]
Many other votive pictures, the pilgrims at the inn, and a priest whom she questioned, confirmed it. [10]
Whatever the common people of the town may think, it is that grave that draws most pilgrims to the village. [4]
From what country other than America could so many thousands of pilgrims --even before our nation had entered the war--have hurried across a wide ocean to take their part? [9]
But there is one thing I feel no disposition to overlook, and no disposition to forget: and that is, the honest gratitude I and all pilgrims owe, to the Convent Fathers in Palestine. [5]
So we journeyed on, through the terrible hills and deserts and the roasting sun, and then far into the night, seeking the honored pool of Baalam's ass, the patron saint of all pilgrims like us. [5]
The two pilgrims, often pressing each other's hands, or exchanging a smile or cheerful look, pursued their way in silence. [12]
In this frame of mind I followed, as fast as I could, the eager footsteps of the pilgrims, and stood upon the shore of the lake, and swelled, with hat and voice, the frantic hail they sent after the "ship" that was speeding by. [5]
The Pilgrims have made so much noise in the world, and so powerfully affected the continent, that our tourists were surprised to find they had landed in such a quiet place, and that the spirit they have left behind them is one of such tranquillity. [4]
As the Khedive looked, his lip curled a little, for he recalled what Dicky Donovan had said about it; how he had pleaded against it, describing loathsome wounds and pilgrims done to death. [11]
All our pilgrims looked on and commented--on the expert way in which the whip was handled. [5]
While they did it they would picture to themselves that vast army of pilgrims marching through the cloven waters, bearing the hallowed ark of the covenant and shouting hosannahs, and singing songs of thanksgiving and praise. [5]
He was just in time, otherwise our pilgrims would have had it. [5]
It grew up in New England out of the seed unconsciously planted by the first Pilgrims, was not crushed out by the weight of a thousand years of error spread over the whole continent, and the Revolution was proclaimed and recognized. [6]
They met together in full view of the pilgrims, after the battle, and took lunch, divided the bucksheesh extorted in the season of danger, and then accompanied the cavalcade home to the city! [5]
Our eight sprang in at the same time that another party of pilgrims did, and nobody screamed once. [5]
I record it here as a notable but not discreditable fact that not even our pilgrims wept. [5]
The incorrigible pilgrims have come in with their pockets full of specimens broken from the ruins. [5]
Why, those Pilgrims had been at sea three or four months. [5]
The French passengers gazed wistfully at the low-lying strip of sand and forest, but our uniformed pilgrims crowded the rail and hailed it as the promised land of self-realization. [9]
He quickened his footsteps, and presently came to a house on which had been freshly painted those rough, staring pictures of "accidents by flood and field," which Mecca pilgrims paint on their houses like hatchments, on their safe return--proclamation of their prestige. [11]
With all their foibles, with all their teasing, tyrannical, and arbitrary notions, the Pilgrims were lovers of liberty as well as sticklers for authority. [6]
Even as the first pilgrims of our people in the days of Timur Beg in India, so I have come forth from among you all till the time be fulfilled. [11]
It is held every year to celebrate the landing of the Pilgrims. [5]
The pilgrims took down portions of the front wall for specimens, as is their honored custom, and then we departed. [5]
Well, then, what do you want to celebrate those Pilgrims for? [5]
But they did do it, though--and it did them a world of good to hear the pilgrims abuse each other, too. [5]
Those "prophecies" are distinctly leveled at the "churches of Ephesus, Smyrna," etc., and yet the pilgrims invariably make them refer to the cities instead. [5]
I need only detain wandering pilgrims, or invite minnesingers to the castle, to shorten the hours. [10]
The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a sandy and inhospitable coast. [4]
On a long curved spit between the rivers, towns of tents were visible, with a multitude of fluttering pennons, and a mighty swarm of pilgrims. [5]
But let us consider a sample extract from the first Sandwich Islands letter: Our little band of passengers were as well and thoughtfully cared for by the friends they left weeping upon the wharf, as ever were any similar body of pilgrims. [5]
The voyage to Compostella, the principal place where he was reverenced, which annually attracted thousands of pilgrims, cost her her last penny, and the cold nights which she was obliged to spend on deck increased her cough until it became almost unendurably violent. [10]
I do not claim that the pilgrims do their acts of worship in the order and sequence above charted out in this Itinerary of mine, but I think logic suggests that they ought to do so. [5]
What the pilgrims choose to do, respect for their almost sacred character demands that I should allow to pass--but I would so like to catch any other member of the party riding his horse up one of these exhausting hills once! [5]
With the same captain and even the same pilgrims, the same sinners. [5]
Two stall-keepers who, by day, were accustomed to offer their wares for sale near the Serapeum to the pilgrims, met him close to the city. [10]
The low brick building of which the sisters' room formed a part, was called the Pastophorium, and it was occupied also by other persons attached to the service of the temple, and by numbers of pilgrims. [10]
Our pilgrims have brought their verdicts with them. [5]
I've read in books that pilgrims were used to go to chapel before they went on journeys, to put up petitions for their safe return. [12]
A hermit thriveth best where there be multitudes of pilgrims. [5]
Let us go before the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, and look at the shores on which they were soon to land. [3]
Those pilgrims had been reading Grimes. [5]
The pilgrims had been over-long in getting so far as Venice, by reason that Sir Franz had fallen sick after they had passed the Bienner, and my brother had diligently and faithfully tended him. [10]
It was necessary because our three pilgrims would not travel on the Sabbath day. [5]
They're a lovely band of pilgrims are the Riders of the Plains Will some sinner please to pass around the hat? [11]
The Bedouins that attacked the other parties of pilgrims so fiercely were provided for the occasion by the Arab guards of those parties, and shipped from Jerusalem for temporary service as Bedouins. [5]
Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land. [4]
Pilgrims, sinners and Arabs are all abed, now, and the camp is still. [5]
The projections that answered for cheeks were worn smooth by the passionate kisses of generations of pilgrims from distant lands. [5]
Our party, pilgrims and all, will always be ready and always willing, to touch glasses and drink health, prosperity and long life to the Convent Fathers of Palestine. [5]
Other pilgrims had also engaged passage at Antwerp for Corunna, the harbour of Compostella, and her means were sufficient for the voyage. [10]
I have declined all engagements but two--Whitelaw Reid (dinner) June 21, and the Pilgrims (lunch), June 25. [5]
However, an hour's acquaintance with this cheerful custom reconciled the pilgrims to it, and then it ceased to occasion remark. [5]

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