Crossword clues for sojourner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sojourner \So"journ*er\, n. One who sojourns.
We are strangers before thee, and sojourners.
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Chron. xxix.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"temporary resident," 15c., agent noun from sojourn (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A person who resides temporarily in a place.
WordNet
n. a temporary resident
Wikipedia
A sojourner is a person who resides temporarily in a place.
Sojourner may also refer to:
- Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and women's rights activist
- Mike Sojourner (born 1953), American retired National Basketball League player
- Willie Sojourner (1943-2005), basketball player and brother of Mike Sojourner
- Sojourner (rover), a robotic rover that was part of the Mars Pathfinder mission
- Sojourner (album) a box set by the alternative country band Magnolia Electric Co.
- "Sojourn", a hidden track on Natasha Bedingfield's debut album Unwritten
- Sojourners, a Christian monthly magazine
- Sojourner, a member of the DC Comics superhero team Hellenders
Sojourner is Magnolia Electric Co.'s 2007 box-set release, comprising: three full-length albums, one four-song EP, one documentary movie on DVD, The Road Becomes What You Leave; a celestial map and a medallion; all within a wooden box. The band's 2006 album, Fading Trails, was compiled from the four recording sessions included in their entirety on Sojourner.
Sojourner was the Mars Pathfinder robotic Mars rover that landed on and explored Mars for around three months. It has front and rear cameras and hardware to conduct several scientific experiments. Designed for a mission lasting 7 sols, with possible extension to 30 sols, it was in fact active for 83 sols. The base station had its last communication session with Earth at 3:23 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on . The rover needed the base station to communicate with Earth, despite still functioning at the time communications ended.
Sojourner traveled a distance of just over by the time communication was lost. It was instructed to stay stationary until October 5, 1997 (sol 91) and then drive around the lander.
Usage examples of "sojourner".
In Tahiti, Hina was a canoeist who enjoyed the sport so much that she sailed to the moon, which proved to be such a good boat that she stayed there, guarding earthly sojourners.
Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth, and he hoped his children, and their children after that, would grow up to follow her example.
SAUL, PAUL JACOBS WITH EVE PELL To Servet he Devil: Colonials and Sojourners Vol.
I V-460 LANDAU, SAUL, PAUL JACOBS WITH EVE PELL To Servet he Devil: Colonials and Sojourners Vol.
If the time was not one of complete and unalloyed joy to Emily,--and we must fear that it was not,--it is to be remembered that but very little complete and unalloyed joy is allowed to sojourners in that vale of tears, even though they have been but two months married.
This was the unbought testimony of Miss Lamont, who, with her uncle, had been there long enough to acquire the common anxiety of sojourners that the newcomers should be pleased, and who superfluously explained the attractions of the place to the artist, as if in his eyes, that rested on her, more than one attraction was needed.
The soul, by successive deaths and births, traverses the universe, an everlasting traveller through the rounds of being and the worlds of space, a transient sojourner briefly inhabiting each.
Paradise, to me so long habitans in sicco, sojourner in the monotoned wastes of the great Gold Desert.
After this, providing you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, if only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the three loaves of the Knowledge of the Trinity, in which consists the final felicity of every sojourner below.
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.
This was the unbought testimony of Miss Lamont, who, with her uncle, had been there long enough to acquire the common anxiety of sojourners that the newcomers should be pleased, and who superfluously explained the attractions of the place to the artist, as if in his eyes, that rested on her, more than one attraction was needed.
But the strongest impression the traveler has is of the public spirit of these summer sojourners, speculators, and religious enthusiasts.
Bromley asked if Abner would lead evening worship, and he did so, taking for his text one that Esther had selected, aftet much study, for the occasion, Genesis 23:4: "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Not wanting to think about their encounter with the dires, but unable to make her thoughts quit rerunning the horror, Jane started when Sojourner said, his man voice soft, almost gentle, "I saw you first in the fire.
It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing.