207 examples of waylaid in sentences

He waylaid me on every possible occasion, holding over me a covert threat of the exposure of my escapade, till at last I was absolutely afraid to go outside the house for fear of meeting him.

He recommenced to write to me, he came down secretly and waylaid me, and when everything else failed he resorted to threats, not veiled as before, but open and unmistakable.

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.

They must make it to Cottonville running by gravity wherever they could; since she had no means of knowing that there was sufficient gasoline in the tank, and it would not do to be overtaken or waylaid.

I was waylaid in my evening drives.

"He has been twice waylaid, as if by footpads, and his person rigidly searched under my own inspection.

Ever since then he has all but waylaid me.

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.

I think he is the one who waylaid Pertinax the other day and spoke strange stuff about a whore on seven hills whose days are numbered.

So, too, thought Fatima, for she waylaid her son one afternoon and said: "Ramzán, I cannot stand this life any longer; let me go to my brother Mahmud Sardar, the cooly-catcher".

I was waylaid on the first floor by one of those Government Inspectors; she went with me to the cloak-room.

In the spring of 1861 a coach was started out from the Rio Grande with thirteen of the bravest buckskin boys of the West, and ten or twelve thousand dollars in gold, to pay off the line and withdraw the service; but the Apaches waylaid the coach in Stein's Pass, killed all of the men, and captured the gold.

An' me being thracked an' folleyed an' dogged an' waylaid an' poisoned an' blandandhered an' kidnapped an' murdhered, an' for why I do not know!"

General Atkinson of the United States Army was waylaid on the 4th of September, 1838, by a number of persons, and attacked in his carriage near St. Louis, on the road to Jefferson Barracks, but escaped after shooting one of the assailants.

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

; waylaid by Arab pirates.

I know not who it was who waylaid us, for this man seemed to know nothing of the matter.

"Do you mean the gentleman Penelope has waylaid?

Hunnicott was waylaid by a court officer as he was leaving the room; and a moment later, totally unprepared, he was in the judge's office, listening in some dazed fashion while Hawk went glibly through the formalities of presenting his petition.

It was not soothing to nerves already on edge to be waylaid by Ashcott and made the unwilling recipient of gloomy forebodings.

Nevertheless in the spring one man of note fell victim to the savages, for John Floyd was waylaid and slain as he was riding out with his brother.

On the 13th of June, 1392, the constable, Oliver de Clisson, was waylaid as he was returning home after a banquet given by the king at the hostel of St. Paul.

She even waylaid Mr. Stobell one evening, and, despite every discouragement, insisted upon walking part of the way home with him.

I looked some time and then concluded I had better not go any further that way, for I might be waylaid and filled with arrows at some unsuspected moment.

Though the old pa was weak, the approaches to it were difficult, and had the Maoris waylaid the assailants on the road, they might have won.

207 examples of  waylaid  in sentences