Though Grant always returned home, he frequently left for extended sojourns with male lovers, and Vanessa was slowly forced to come to terms with reality of her situation, "when one is in love and can't have what one wants."

Clearly, we're going to have an extended sojourn in the political wilderness.

He apologizes for that "grave lapse of moral standards," which he attributes to a misguided effort to salve the pain of the loneliness he felt during his extended sojourns in Washington.

I pray you not be long, for following extended sojourn upon my back I shiver from apprehension at absence of biologic persons.

At first, an extended sojourn on a government-run ferry, those workaday commuting vessels redolent of french fries and diesel fumes, had all the appeal of a particularly amateurish production of Sartre's "No Exit."

Bobby had grown despondent, Mr. Oxnam said, after returning from an extended sojourn in China, where he had been especially happy.

During our extended sojourn in Colorado (my father never really considered it home; it was more of a stopping-off point), various relatives visited us from New Jersey.

When Jacqueline Bukowski returned to Morningside Heights from an extended sojourn in Germany in the late 1970's, she wasn't prepared for the particularly vicious strain of culture shock that hit her.

Martin and his wife, Kate, we learn, have left London for an extended sojourn at their country house with their infant daughter, Tilda.

For this reason, dancers often prefer more extended sojourns with a company.