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
They were free, but visitors to what was sort of a one-stop office for spaced-out foreign wayfarers without cash or credit cards were asked to make a donation.
From Seattle Times ● May 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
But in the Rio Grande Valley, a porous frontier traveled by illicit wayfarers throughout history, the new influx of children and parents from Central America has been most immediately a reason to get to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 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
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