halting-place

Example Sentences

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I want when we arrive at the halting-place to hand over the command of my detachment to the corporal, and for you to let me go away on my own affairs.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Two nations look across the Niagara, so that, even though its flow were placid from lake to lake, it would still be a political barrier, a halting-place.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.

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

The whole of that day's route was an ascent, and the halting-place was nearly 9000 feet in altitude.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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