halting-place
Example Sentences
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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
The bank was well chosen for a halting-place; it was high and dry, also free from mosquitoes.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Yet the long High Street still contains a few quaint frontages of the seventeenth century, and our halting-place has a curious sign of wrought ironwork.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
He was aware of many a pleasant little halting-place between writ and judgment.
From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John
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)
