Short stay

Usage examples of sojourn.

With this fellowship they came safely and with little pain unto Chestnut Vale, where they abode but one night, though to Ralph and Ursula the place was sweet for the memory of their loving sojourn there.

The poison rain was a soup of industrial by-products, still falling from their long sojourn in the upper atmosphere.

She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.

She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking, -- for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever, -- after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.

French emigrant, should, unless he had permission previously to the place, make a longer sojourn than was allowed to foreign travellers.

He failed in both efforts, and afterward wrote an account of the performance for a German newspaper, which is one of the best specimens of the feuilleton style which his sojourn in Paris provoked.

And now, excited by the near prospect of comparative rest and freedom, I exulted in the idea of exchanging the red--lined roads and yellow mullock heaps, the iron or wooden shanties, the sombre shadeless forest, amid which I had sojourned so long, for the cool streets, the lofty freestone walls, the massed flower thickets, and the unfamiliar luxuries of the City of the Sea.

Cardinal Peter of Capua arrived in France about Christmas time in 1197 and, after a brief sojourn in the capital of the Capets, procured a parley of the kings at a place on the Seine between Gaillard and Vernon.

RETURN TO VENICE Thus Casanova ended his Memoirs, concluding his narrative with his sojourn at Trieste, in January 1774, where he had remained, except for a few excursions, since the 15th November 1772.

In those days she told him of her farings since that night of April when she escaped out of Krothering: how first she found harbourage at By in Westmark, but hearing in a day or two of a hue and cry fled east again, and sojourning awhile beside Throwater came at length about a month ago upon this cave beside the little fountain, and here abode.

Though Doris is more knowledgeable of the trade, Nellie has been surprisingly observant during her short sojourn.

She appeared slightly the better for her sojourn among Hwyl and his people - her long hair was neatly braided, and her clothes were clean - and since she appeared well treated and content, I turned away and thought no more about her.

The inner city-world of Lusus was much as I remembered it from my brief sojourn there: a series of Hive towers above the vertical canyons of gray metal.

Wiesman, in 1893, reported a rhinolith, which was composed of a cherry-stone enveloped in chalk, that had been removed after a sojourn of sixty years, with intense ozena as a consequence of its lodgment.

After my sojourn in Simba Town I had become possessed of a love of life in the open.