halting-place

The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a halting-place.

Les Miserables 2008

Isfahanis retort with the name of a station or halting-place between the two cities where, under presence of making travellers stow away their riding-gear, many a Shirazi had been raped: hence

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Seaforth; or should he choose any halting-place, he would expose himself to be attacked by three armies at once.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Arthur could hear Rudolph take his friend Rudiger to task for not meeting him at the halting-place appointed.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

So halting at the first halting-place they agreed to play him false and take all he had; but at the same time, each inwardly plotted foul play to the other, saying in his mind, “If I can cheat my comrade, times will go well with me and I shall have all these goods for myself.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

They had remained nearly an hour in their halting-place, when

Redgauntlet 2008

These two told them, first, that Cyrus was dead; next, that Ariaeus had retreated with the rest of the barbarians to the halting-place whence they had started at dawn on the previous day; and wished to inform them that, if they were minded to come, he would wait for this one day, but on the morrow he should return home again to Ionia, whence he came.

Anabasis 2007

It was already about full market time20 and the halting-place at which the army was to take up quarters was nearly reached, when Pategyas, a

Anabasis 2007

As soon as they reached a halting-place, Xenophon, without more ado, came up to Cheirisophus, and took him to task for not having waited, “whereby,” he said, “we were forced to fight and flee at the same moment; and now it has cost us the lives of two fine fellows; they are dead, and we were not able to pick up their bodies or bury them.”

Anabasis 2007

We have spoken of Voltairean deism, and the expression is a convenient one to distinguish from the various forms of mystic theology, which gloomily disclaim any pretence to be rational, the halting-place of spirits too deeply penetrated with the rationalistic objections of Voltaire to accept revelation, and either too timorous or too confident to acquiesce in a neutral solution.

Voltaire 2007