pilgrimer

Updated: May 2, 2025

I hear a rumour that an old mad Romish pilgrimer, who passes for at least half a saint among them, was employed to find a fit subject." "We have escaped that danger at least," said Murray, "and converted it into a point of advantage, by sending this boy of Glendinning's and for her waiting-damsel, you cannot grudge her one poor maiden instead of her four noble Marys and all their silken train?"

Sir Walter Scott - The Abbot

"Who are you? what are you? and why do you not await to make me answer?" "I was," she replied, "while yet I belonged to the world, a matron of no vulgar name; now I am Magdalen, a poor pilgrimer, for the sake of Holy Kirk." "Yea," said Sir Halbert, "art thou a Catholic? I thought my dame said that Roland Graeme came of reformed kin.

Sir Walter Scott - The Abbot