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1. “Well as a matter of fact I was waylaid but thankfully Snags drove them off
2. Amos had been waylaid
3. We said our hellos’, asked about each other’s health, dusted our clothes, and followed Andrew to a place that he had waylaid as a temporary lodge while in wait for us
4. Garcia hadn’t taken ten steps from the Counselor’s door when he was waylaid by a Ferengi
5. the beginning of the strike several “Scabs” had been waylaid and been
6. They waylaid and looted by armed
7. She waylaid him after tea on the stairs
8. waylaid in the woods by several riders who continued on their way
9. But, once it was arranged, I became nervous, so I arrived early and waylaid one of the nurses as she arrived for duty and asked her to deliver a note to him
10. After giving me the plan of this house, doubtless hoping I should kill the count and he thus become his heir, or that the count would kill me and I should be out of his way, he waylaid me, and has murdered me
11. He had stopped to admire a flower, had gotten waylaid in the shadows, but in no time at all he would be back on the path again, renewed and rededicated
12. "It is true that we were wrongfully waylaid by the Elven-king and imprisoned without cause as we journeyed back to our own land," answered Thorin
13. and near the Gladden Fields he was waylaid by the Orcs of the Mountains, and almost all his folk were slain
14. He died to save us, my kinsman Meriadoc and myself, waylaid in the woods by the soldiery of the
15. For a strong force of Orcs and Easterlings attempted to take their leading companies in an ambush; and that was in the very place where Faramir had waylaid the men of Harad, and the road went in a deep cutting through an out-thrust of the eastward hills
16. Its state meant some harried attendants had shrewdly waylaid the girl and wrestled her into it as she was on the utter threshold of the Great Hall
17. Still, to be waylaid on the stairs, to have to listen to all her jargon, hear her demands, threats, and complaints, and have to make excuses and subterfuges in return—no, he preferred to steal down without attracting notice
18. It was full fifteen minutes after that when the Lady Barbara drove into the inn, crying that she had been waylaid by the Black Highwayman
19. “It was then that the Lady Barbara confessed, much against her will, I will admit, that it was indeed her cousin and her fiancé who had waylaid her, merely to confess to her his identity with this bandit whose life is, assuredly, forfeit to the crown
20. French cruisers waylaid the mouths of your harbors, and captured your vessels; and the first successful act of the United States after the quasi-war commenced, was, the taking of one of these cruisers in the mouth of one of our harbors
1. So you spoke to the Khakhan? Did he waylay you again?”
2. “Are there trails through here?” Corwin asked and was told that there were certain routes that all travelers followed which made it easier for the bandits to waylay solitary merchants
3. Could Bloodtooth be stalking them at this very moment? Sam knew his quarry‘s prowess but could anyone waylay Samson and JY given Sam‘s new sensory gift? The feeling persisted causing Sam to silently signal the unperturbed pit bull to his side and search the deepening shadows, his senses raw as sandpapered skin
4. the door of the dining room on his way out I heard the red-haired Geordie waylay him: ‘Well
5. He said, "Because you have lured me, I will waylay them on Your straight path
6. waylay their game near the paths that lead to them
7. On Saturdays Old Joe used to waylay these children and buy them bags of cakes at the bakers
8. He had thought that this was some last trick of Saruman's, to waylay the king while he had only a few men about him; but it seemed that there would be no need to die in Thjoden's defence, not yet at any rate
9. But the main strength of the Rohirrim that remained horsed and able to fight, some three thousand under the command of Elfhelm, should waylay the West Road against the enemy that was in Anurien
10. Girls had to waylay me
11. I’ve seen all sorts of foreign actresses waylay the English language—Modjeska and Janauschek being in the list—but seldom have such results as those given by this little, thin, nervous Frenchwoman been attained
12. Even to Lindley, who had been with him on the night in question, it did not seem altogether impossible that Lord Farquhart had had time to ride forth, waylay his cousin and rejoin his friends at the inn ere the lady drove into the courtyard