Word: pilgrimate
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...bluntly, it seems to me that the snare that holds us is fear - fear of losing our allies, fear of the future judgments of history, fear of getting hurt ourselves. Where would America be today if the Pilgrim Fathers had let this kind of fear dictate their actions? As the signers of the Declaration of Independence said, 'For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' It was a solemn pledge of all they held dear...
...elderly schoolmistress aunt introduced young Christopher to the beauties of English by reading to him from the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. At eleven he wrote his first play, a farce, at twelve his first poem, at 14 his first verse play, never produced. Young Fry did not do well in school, stood last in his class in English...
Canadians are ever conscious of the "colossus of the South." Last week at a Pilgrim Society dinner in Manhattan, Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Bowles Pearson pronounced the current Canadian view of the colossus...
...slices of Gary's pudding that have been served in the U.S. since 1936, the best have been his trilogy novels, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948 et seq.). In these books Gary shows himself a master of the novelist's true business: creating characters who stick in the memory. No one who has once met that latter-day Moll Flanders, Sara Monday, and that loudmouthed old horsethief and painter, Gulley Jimson, is likely to forget them...
...scrupulously performing his duty to his sovereign, his native land and those it holds dear, should not be protected by a special Providence. And he is!" Aided by this inextinguishable faith, Christopher survives his enemies, but only after a siege of torments as destructive as Christian's in Pilgrim's Progress...