halting-place

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We learned that Petersen and Bonsall had been at this hospitable halting-place, eaten and rested, and pushed northward under the guidance of Amalatok.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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

The loveliest spot we ever found on earth is but a halting-place for the traveller—an oasis for the caravan in the desert.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

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

No obvious halting-place, I say; for the point which at first seems abruptly transitional has been already shown to be only the critical point of a continuous curve.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)