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Peregrine   /pˈɛrəgrˌin/   Listen
Peregrine

noun
1.
A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry.  Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon.
adjective
(Spelt also pelegrine)
1.
Migratory.  Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering.  "The nomadic habits of the Bedouins" , "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future" , "Wandering tribes"



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"Peregrine" Quotes from Famous Books



... commonly given to a tutor, especially a travelling tutor. Thus Peregrine Pickle was sent first to Winchester and afterwards abroad 'under the immediate care and inspection of a ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell

... on the old Smollett touch in Sir Launcelot Greaves,—the individual touch of which we are continually sensible in Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle, but seldom in Count Fathom. With it is a new Smollett touch, indicative of a kindlier feeling towards the world. It is commonly said that the only one of the writer's novels which contains a sufficient amount of charity and sweetness is ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett

... should be more than commonly affected by the death of Peregrine Langton[55], you were not mistaken; he was one of those whom I loved at once by instinct and by reason. I have seldom indulged more hope of any thing than of being able to improve our acquaintance to friendship. Many a time have I placed myself again at Langton, and imagined ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell

... family. For, despite what might have been deemed a somewhat disillusionizing experience, in the depths of his being he still believed in the Providence who had presided over the perilous voyage of the Mayflower and the birth of Peregrine White, whose omniscient mind was peculiarly concerned with the family trees of Puritans. And what could be a more striking proof of the existence of this Providence, or a more fitting acknowledgment on his part of the Bumpus virtues, than that Janet should become the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various


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