halting-place
Example Sentences
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About nightfall they reached their halting-place, a small village about ten miles distant from Durban, where they obtained a supply of fresh milk and mealies, resuming their journey on the following day.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.
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)
The Torretta degraded to a halting-place of tramcars!
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
If there were some points still obscure in the story I would invite its narrator to relate it to me at the first halting-place.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various
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)
