halting-place

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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

A tavern erected shortly afterwards was named the “Heroes of Waterloo,” and became subsequently the halting-place for the coaches on this, the first stage out of Portsmouth and the last from London.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

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

We had chosen Turkey Creek as our halting-place, and rode at a quick pace in order to reach our camping-ground by daylight.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

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