53 examples of stopping-places in sentences

But there may be many stopping-places in so long a road.

" "Do you mean, sir, that he is to use any of these stopping-places, as you call them?" asked Mary, eagerly, half-breathless with her anxiety to hear all.

We passed, at one of our stopping-places between Cairo and Suez, part of a Turkish regiment on their way to Jeddah.

At one time the omnibuses, which are rapidly becoming the only means of street transport for human beings, had regular stopping-places at the corner's of streets, at Piccadilly Circus, at Oxford Circus, and so forth.

" "So it's just for entertainment that you dodge about over the stopping-places and keep changing them?"

Then I found myself in a bit of hollow that seemed made for a stopping-place, with a plantation road running off to the right, and a hillside cornfield of many acres on the left.

Thinking they would soon return, I went over to consult with Don Ignacio about resuming our journey; but, as the water and grass were much better where we then were than at the next stopping-place, the California Springs, it was decided to remain encamped until morning.

" At temporary stopping-places he endured seeing him located in superior quarters and enjoying better and more abundant food than he.

Over this featureless wilderness we progressed day after day, each stopping-place marked by a few aspen trees mixed up with a few others that look very much like mountain ash but are not.

* TUESDAY, JULY 21st, 1846.After a quiet cosy breakfast, served up on a little round table for myself alone, I sat down to test the practicability of the plan I had formed at home for my peregrinations in England:viz., to write until one, P.M., then to take my staff and travel on, eight or ten miles, to another convenient stopping-place for the night.

I determined to ask no more porters, not even my benefactor, about stopping-places; so I found myself on the street not knowing where to go.

I drove the bishop to his stopping-place after I had left Mr. Brown at the hotel.

The wayfarer in the little-travelled districts of France must not expect to find in all his stopping-places a fowl ready to be placed on the spit for him.

They travel at a very fair pace, but waste much time at the stopping-places, and whole hours at junctions.

When he joined the circus he was an apprentice, and beside a certain number of hours of gymnastic practice daily and service in the ring both afternoon and evening, he had half a dozen horses to care for, his part of the tent to pack up and load, and the team to drive to the next stopping-place.

And so, with all its grace of curve and bend, and sothe description is longer than the voyagewe come to our first stopping-place.

A glass of milk and a crust of the bread I had brought from the convent made my breakfast, and we pushed on to our next stopping-place, the convent of Piperski Celia.

A telegram was awaiting me from Augustus, sent from his first stopping-place.

At dawn the squad, leaving tender apologies in the night's stopping-place, had left the ladies also, not foreseeing that demoralized servants would keep them there with torturing delays long into the forenoon.

But Gerilleau learnt things about the ants, more things and more, at this stopping-place and that, and became interested in his mission.

In several stopping-places she and her suite were swimming in water which spread everywhere, and that in spite of the unparalleled pains that had been taken by a tyrannical ministry.

" They had to change twice on the way to Binchester, and at each stopping-place Mr. Duckett, a prey to nervousness, suggested the wisdom of disappearing while they had the opportunity.

We found this a convenient stopping-place for vessels making the inner passage, wood and water being easily procured.

And mingled with us on the boat would be country people traveling to or from town, pedlers, parties going to the stopping-places of the passenger boats, people loading and unloading freight, drovers with live stock for the market, and all sorts of queer characters and odd fish who haunted the canal as waterside characters infest the water-front of ports.

The English forces never marched a day's march inland in the Northern States, excepting the three marches of two days or three, when they came to Bennington, to Saratoga, and to Trenton,three memorable stopping-places.

53 examples of  stopping-places  in sentences