Word: pilgrimate
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...they think out how to increase it, or one which pushes forward and creates new wealth in which we all can share." He brought up the name of Nye Bevan. "I don't propose to waste much time on this fellah this evening," said Butler. "I was reading Pilgrim's Progress recently. In it, Christian meets up with a Mr. Talkative from Prating-row. I was very struck by something that Christian said of him. He said, 'All he hath lieth in his tongue.' " The crowd burst into applause...
...main theme of the G.M. poet laureate was that General Motors had the power--power in the brakes and steering on exhibit and hundreds of horses of power in every engine. None of the enraptured Bostonians would deny that G.M. had the power; in fact, they took a pilgrim's pride in it. From the admiration on their faces, one saw that General Motors also had the glory--forever and ever, one might add, after looking at the children no less transfixed...
Gallery of Despair. But on a deeper level, Wyatt is making another pilgrimage, a modern Pilgrim's Progress, and there is a kind of nimbus about him at the end. He is enveloped in a world of spiritual bankrupts who tide themselves over their despair with drink, drugs and periodic injections of selfdelusion. In this gallery, some are mad and many are damned...
...practical joke." The setting for Melville's vast practical joke 'is a Mississippi riverboat, named Fidèle, on a run from St. Louis to New Orleans. The day is April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they exist only to be duped...
...sick, seek to demonstrate the good will of the people of our country toward the people of Britain, and especially to demonstrate it to the group not linked to America by direct cultural or business ties, the group no invited to dinners of the English Speaking Union and the Pilgrim Society...