halting-place

Example Sentences

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Kotranis is my last Syrian halting-place, and its miseries are well fitted to leave a lasting impression.

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)

To her it was just a halting-place on her journey into the unknown regions of life.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret

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)

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 hastily arranges a retreat, and he and his men clamber over the mountains, perhaps under a burning sun, and reach their halting-place at night, exhausted with thirst, hunger, and fatigue.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden