Manley, being in a measure a pilgrim, and having no experience to draw upon, and not much imagination, took no part in the talk, except that he listened and was intensely interested.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Thus, though she possessed strong family affections, she could not help feeling that to go and take up her abode in the house of some relative, where life resolved itself into a monotonous recurrence of petty considerations, something after the Glegg pattern, would be little short of crucifixion to her, and, however deep her attachment for her native soil may have been, she yet sighed passionately to break away from its associations, and to become "a wanderer and a pilgrim on the face of the earth."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
In Amos Barton they recognised the incumbent of Coton Church, in Mr. pilgrim a medical man familiar to every child in the town, and indeed in every one of the characters an equally unmistakable portrait.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind