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Waylaid by A and C as I walked through A's backyard on my way to the park to get girls.
Simulacrum of a Summer Evening Becca 2008
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Waylaid by want and penury is but a stranger wight!
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I'd throw in Ed Lin's Waylaid as a good, fun read as well.
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Waylaid by A and C as I walked through A's backyard on my way to the park to get girls.
Archive 2008-04-01 Becca 2008
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Waylaid by terror, I woke, needing to sit up and detach myself.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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Waylaid the priest outside the rectory, just like you told me to.
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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Waylaid him on the way home and hit him and killed him.
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-- Waylaid doctor; throat bad; got two bottles medicine; seedy.
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Waylaid at one corner after another by the long tide of troops streaming out through the town to the northern suburbs, we saw in turn all the various divisions of the unfolding frieze: first the [Page 90] infantry and artillery, the sappers and miners, the endless trains of guns and ammunition, then the long line of grey supply-waggons, and finally the stretcher-bearers following the Red Cross ambulances.
Fighting France 1915
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"Waylaid and knocked in the head," I answered, sinking down into the stern on account of a sudden attack of dizziness.
The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure William MacLeod Raine 1912
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