The key word, however, is "roughly", for there are small (though predictable) irregularities in the majestic clockwork of the planet's annual peregrination.
For many artisans, peregrination was a way of life, and many years of their young manhood were spent on a tour de France, which took them from city to city in order to learn their trade.
In nonreligious literary prose there is preserved the story of Sinuhe, an account of the life of a Middle Kingdom official, his prosperous peregrination in Asia but continued yearning for the homeland, relieved at last by a chance to join the pharaonic court.
Right away, Tanowitz let us know that no part of the stage was off limits: Toogood stopped in her peregrination and leaned against the downstage-right wall, looking off toward Cloud.
A Portuguese bandeirante, or "soldier of fortune," described how, "after a long and troublesome peregrination, incited by the insatiable greed of gold," he and his men had ascended a mountain path and seen a spellbinding vista: below them were the ruins of an ancient city.
Within this peregrination, there were other movements, smaller but twice as frantic.
The Asia Society is addressing peregrination and devotion directly in a deftly shaped exhibition called "Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art".
A delightful peregrination you have offered, calling attention to some hidden gems.
Learn more about the word "peregrination" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
The word peregrination has appeared in 16 New York Times articles in the past year, on Feb. 17 in the Arts review "Gauging the Power of the Print" by Ken Johnson: In a big, autobiographical piece subtitled "The Map of the Land of Feelings" Mr. Tiravanija documented his own global travels.
Recently, in accordance with long-standing big-screen practice, Eat Pray Love, Monsters, The Road and The Way Back have all thrust their protagonists toward varying degrees of enlightenment via cross-country peregrination.
