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pilgrim

noun as in wayfarer

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Legend also casts it as the final resting place of pilgrims from across the world seeking salvation.

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An avid researcher armed with a camera, Enriquez is both reporter and pilgrim.

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The house became part of children's television history and has seen "busloads" of preschool pilgrims wanting to visit the set in the colourful harbour town.

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The excavation is said to mark the route of a Roman-era street taken by pilgrims to the site revered by Jews as the location of two Biblical temples.

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There was no mention anywhere of the Africans abducted and enslaved by these “Christian pilgrims.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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