halting-place

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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)

Fifth, and last, because if this ship carried three millions, we must find a source for this silver, and a halting-place for it.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

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

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

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.