52 collocations for waylays

She waylaid a party of labourers, who chanced to be coming that way, and hired them to carry all the luggage upstairshad the desired fire mademixed up some corn-bread, and had tea on the table in a twinkling.

Their moccasined feet made no sound as they stole softly on the camp of a sleeping enemy or crept to ambush him while he himself still-hunted or waylaid the deer.

Then he would waylay the doctor as he left the house, asking if Carl were not improving, and if he would not be up in a few days.

He waylays the smaller boys to punch their unprotected heads, and calls challenges after me in the streets.

These islands form an immense cluster, lying as if it were in the high road which connects the commercial nations of Europe and Asia with each other, affording a hundred fastnesses from which to waylay the traveller.

"You have had good sport, it seems," she said, waylaying her brother, and feeling the weight of his game-bag.

With this he waylaid the vessel in which Iphigenia embarked for Rhodes.

For nearly a month Pulin called daily for news at Messrs. Kerr & Dunlop's, and generally managed to waylay the head clerk, whose reply was invariably, "I have nothing to suit you at present".

This man, Lydenberg, whoever he is or was, was sent to waylay your cousin at Christianiasent from London.

[Illustration] PLATE 35 Radha disguised as a Constable arresting Krishna as a Thief Garhwal, Punjab Hills, c. 1785 Indian Museum, Calcutta Tired of Krishna's attempts to waylay the cowgirls, Radha dons a turban, brandishes a constable's heavy staff and seizes Krishna by the wrist.

Sergeant Collard had waylaid the archaeological expert on his way to chapel, and informed him that at close on twelve the night before he had observed a youth, unidentified, attempting to get into his house via the water pipe.

"Perhaps not," assented her sister; but half an hour later she waylaid her father to give him her commands.

A squadron of them made their way to the Red Sea, waylaid the Mocha fleet, and returned home laden with booty.

So it is no use waylaying the paper-hanger on the chance of getting a free meal.

With the directness which marked her action when once her mind was made up, she waylaid Irechester as he came into the drawing-room; her resolute approach sufficed to detach Naylor from him; he found himself for the moment isolated from everybody except Mary.

Waller and Middleton waylay the king at Cropredy Bridge.

" "Make Q's of answers, to waylay What th' other party's like to say.

Later in the evening he awkwardly waylaid the new lodger before the cabin-door as that gentleman would have passed on to his room.

He confessed that, knowing the chief had a large sum in his possession, himself and his companion had broken the lock of the rifle, intending to waylay the old man and shoot him in the woods.

Then he was to waylay the first likely-looking messenger and entrust the note which Jack had read to him for delivery.

Of course the man was waiting either to waylay Edith Morriston or to meet her by appointment.

"They waylaid Mueller there.

there's a reward offered, boys; let's keep an eye on him!" He waylaid the nieces once or twice, and tried to secure from them a verification of his somber suspicions, which they mischievously fostered.

" These white devils have their panders, bawds, and factors in every place to seek about, and bring in customers, to tempt and waylay novices, and silly travellers.

It was free from the vicissitudes which have waylaid the paths of equally great artists, and the current of his genius ran on without a ripple, save that of sickness.

52 collocations for  waylays