wayfarers

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After 14 desperate days, the wayfarers surrendered to indigenous members of the tiny island of Tobi, who claimed them as slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The foreign fungi, perhaps a colony of wayfarers from the bag of golden oyster mycelium beside it, was gone and pink oysters began to emerge.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2021

In 1799, the site became the Quarantine, where wayfarers suspected of having infectious diseases like smallpox, yellow fever, cholera and typhus were detained in hospitals and shanties.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

For countless wayfarers, the suggestion is clear: surrender to the impulse for velocity and kick up a little more dust, pedal toward the floor, along an undulating desert terrain that beckons swiftness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2014

She lay in wait for the wayfarers along the roads to the city and whomever she seized she put a riddle to, telling him if he could answer it, she would let him go.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton