sojourn

A short stay somewhere.

Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.

But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.

A temporary residence.

Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn

To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.