Literary notes about peregrination (AI summary)
Writers employ “peregrination” in varied and imaginative ways that often transcend a mere physical journey. In some cases, it marks literal travel, as characters set off on long or treacherous routes—whether exiting at daybreak on the road to Bordeaux [1] or embarking on a series of trips between bed and a train station [2]. In other instances, the word takes on a more symbolic mantle, evoking personal quests or transformative odysseys, as when it hints at a metaphoric movement toward new insights or destinies [3, 4]. Whether recounting exhaustive itineraries, as in a noted five-day expedition [5, 6], or underscoring the weariness and unpredictability of travel [7, 8], “peregrination” enriches narratives by imbuing the act of journeying with both literal and figurative significance.
- Arrested at break of day on the road to Bordeaux, it was no difficult matter for him to explain the cause of his early peregrination.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 1843 by Various - After dinner we had to undertake a third peregrination to bed, and a fourth the next morning to get our train.
— from Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne - A young American will deliberately spend all his resources in an aesthetic peregrination of Europe.
— from The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters - Then, said the pilgrim, fetching a great sigh: there was born the cause of my peregrination, and of my misfortune.
— from The Pilgrim of Castile; or, El Pelegrino in Su Patria by Lope de Vega - Forrest, ——, author of “Five Days’ Peregrination,” 291 .
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone - AN ACCOUNT of what seemed most remarkable in the FIVE DAYS’ PEREGRINATION of the five following Persons; viz.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone - It was thus above a twelvemonth, from the loss of the Wager, before this fatiguing peregrination terminated.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete Historyof the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, andCommerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to thePresent Time by Robert Kerr - In 1742, Hogarth visited the city, in that celebrated peregrination with his four friends, and played hop-scotch in the courtyard of the Guildhall.
— from A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected by William R. (William Richard) Hughes
