halting-place

Example Sentences

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With artisans out of work, and with town-travelers of small trade, the pie-shop is a halting-place, its productions presenting a cheap substitute for a dinner.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

If there were some points still obscure in the story I would invite its narrator to relate it to me at the first halting-place.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various

It enters familiarly into its usual abode; inclines to stop at its ordinary halting-place; prefers a journey which it has formerly taken, and falls readily into an occupation to which it has been accustomed.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

To her it was just a halting-place on her journey into the unknown regions of life.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret

Thus reinvigorated, and their goat-skins filled again, the Believers joyfully resisted the fatigue of the march between each successive halting-place and finally emerged, safe and sound, from that accursed region.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne