(n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
(2) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(3) A significant post-prandial increase of plasma bile acid concentration (PBAC) was observed in peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus).
(4) Variation observed at one o of the sex-linked fragments in peregrines has proven to be useful in distinguishing a subset of the tundrius subspecies of this endangered raptor.
(5) We let the owners of grouse moors , 1% of the 1%, shoot and poison hen harriers, peregrines and eagles.
(6) The path follows the course of the river back to the roaring whirlpool – but between these forces of nature, it offers tranquility, surrounded not just by the forests but by hundreds of wildlife species, from rare flowers to abundant salamanders and peregrine falcons.
(7) "It was a peregrine back in the big storms of 1987.
(8) It later apologised after the review's author, former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, complained to the Press Complaints Commission.
(9) The authors suggest that disease simulation, peregrination, and imposture are secondary behavioral manifestations of pseudologia, which is deserving of additional study.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) It's not essentially to do with money: if you're a kid who goes to a museum and tries to draw a peregrine falcon, that's your art world.
(12) Münchhausen's syndrome is characterized by fictitious illnesses associated with hospital peregrination, pseudologia fantastica with a mythomanic discourse that includes strongly structured medical elements, passivity and dependance at examinations, and aggressiveness.
(13) On the basis of 3 new case reports and a statistic processing of literature case histories, this paper suggests that when using the original criteria by Asher, the syndrome constitutes a subtype of chronic factitious disorders, specially characterized by factitious illness, peregrination, pseudologia fantastica and dramatic admission circumstances.
(14) There is a highly significant negative correlation between shell thickness and DDE content in peregrine eggs.
(15) Studies on reproductive success in Great Britain and data on eggshell-thinning suggest that DDE residues above 20 ppm wet weight in peregrine eggs are associated with inability to maintain population levels.
(16) Yellowstone’s latest surveys also show that a five-year effort to conserve aerial predators such as hawks and eagles has been successful, with numbers of peregrines remaining stable and the nesting success of bald eagles and ospreys “above the long-term averages for both species during the last several years”.
(17) It's deep and Bravo does well to get a flying fist to the ball ahead of Sergio Ramos, who tends to be more dangerous in the air than a peregrine falcon.
(18) Norman Mailer asked for marijuana, and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne for hallucinogenic drugs, but these are not bad things to have to pass away the time, if one is inclined in that direction.
(19) We haven't been able to find anything more miserable than that, Peregrine, but were amused to find that Europe's least appealing club competition may well be the InterToto Cup.
(20) Like other birds of prey, the harrier has been protected by law since 1954, but while buzzards and peregrine falcons have recovered their numbers, in England, hen harriers are now close to extinction .
Pilgrim
Definition:
(n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
(n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
(v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(2) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(3) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
(4) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
(5) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(6) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(7) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(8) Pilgrims who became group A carriers introduced this clonal group into sub-Saharan Africa on their return from the haj.
(9) Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients Read more Epstein, who reportedly keeps much of his wealth in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns a private island, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about his HSBC Geneva accounts.
(10) He's thanking them and telling then that he is going to become "a pilgrim about to start his last journey on Earth" (Thanks to the BBC's translator).
(11) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(12) And though films like Scott Pilgrim can feel positively regressive in their sexual politics, BTTF is not misogynistic.
(13) 1987 31 July: Saudi security forces suppress an unauthorised protest held by Iranian pilgrims.
(14) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
(15) Baboun, a former literature scholar, has spent her term redrawing municipal boundaries, dealing with the damage caused to Bethlehem’s business district by the wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, and focusing on providing sufficient accommodation for tourists and pilgrims.
(16) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(17) It was not the first tragedy to strike Mecca pilgrims, although the hajj has remained practically incident-free in recent years.
(18) Their image of the church is of a pilgrim people on the move.
(19) The UK cash pilgrims also included property traders, a diet clinic owner and a toy manufacturer.
(20) But there was little mourning among pilgrims, who snapped pictures of the collapsed metal and continued with their prayers and rituals.