halting-place

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We had no difficulty in selecting a good halting-place, and obtaining fresh spring water and grass.

From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.

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)

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

Sir Charles Staveley arrived to-day with his force, which slept last night at a halting-place at the foot of the ghaut.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

As immediate environment has an influence in making impressions, my opinion of this halting-place on the borders of "Hoosierdom" was not the most exalted.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.