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

He was aware of many a pleasant little halting-place between writ and judgment.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

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

I hear that in the neighbourhood of Lât there is plenty of forage; in that case Lât will probably be our halting-place, if we find we cannot obtain sufficient grass and grain at Attala.

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

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)