To put sufficient distance between themselves and the French army, the Maugrabins made a forced march and did not halt until after nightfall.
Then make your toilet on the green-sward, swing your knapsack over your shoulders, and cover ten good miles of road before you halt before breakfast with more than the appetite of an ogre.
We halt in the town of Orthez for luncheon and I note an ancient tower which will be visited after the inner man has become satisfied.
I am forced to call a halton Jean as we are moving at a mile per minute down grade.
Halt and disarm in the name of Demarzule, the Great One!
The complex machinery of the disruptor sputtered to a halt amid the clatter of relays.
The headquarters ship slowed to a halt and the lock opened, emitting the fiery burst of a motor scooter which Doc Phyfe rode with angry abandon.
It was Pepper who spoke, as the Hall cadets came to a halt in Rawling's pasture,--a lot containing nearly a hundred acres which were almost as smooth as a barn floor.
Josiah Crabtree, as he came to a haltin front of the pupil.
The strong dared not halt to help the weak for fear they too should perish.
At eight o'clock the little army came to a final halt at a farmhouse, thirteen miles from their camp, and a little more than a mile back of Stony Point.
They emerged from the part of the small town closely built about the university and came out upon a bit of parked land overlooking the river; and here Dora's steps slowed to an indeterminate halt near a bench beneath a maple tree.
He paused in his walking to and fro and came to a halt behind his friend's chair, looking down compassionately upon the back of Ramsey's motionless head.
Five or six rods of zigzag clambering, and slipping, and gathering, and tugging, advanced us one on the ascent; and then a halt for breath and strength for a new effort.
The same arrangement is made when they halt for the night.
An involuntary murmur of relief from the most fearful forebodings, and the sudden halt of the riding animals in their tracks were the only movements, the only acts that indicated our grateful joy at this deliverance.
On one {63} of these were five buffalo; but they proved to us more delightful to the sight than to any other sense, since I was unable to induce my guide to halt and hunt them.
And somewhat later when a haltwas made for luncheon, weighty evidence was presented that if any risk whatever existed it was extremely slight.
The machine had come to a halt where the rough road led back from the highway just before the bridge was reached.
The necessary guard was soon found, and after a long halt owing to a heavy shower, we were able to proceed on our way, first carefully loading our rifles and overhauling our revolvers.
At Eastertide, which is one of the biggest feasts in the Greek Church, beggars, halt and maim, blind and tattered, pour into all the larger towns of the country.
When a particularly large boulder was reached, we would halt under its shelter to enable the horses to come up--they were following behind under the charge of one man.
At a small village named Lijeva Rijeka we made a long halt to allow the doctor to transact some official business.
His march was the diffusion of the arts and commerce, and the acquisition of scientific knowledge; the countries he passed through were accurately described, as he proceeded, and the intervals between halt and haltregularly measured.
The amir was away from his capital settling the affairs of his newly acquired territory; Nolde therefore, after a short halt at Hail, journeyed on to Ibn Rashid's camp somewhere in the neighbourhood of Shakra.
We are to halt two days here, and before that is over, I hope you'll have made your last caracole in the riding-school of Nancy.
They heard me now; I saw a staff officer gallop up to the head of the leading division, and halt them: a volley came peppering from behind me, but without doing me any injury, for I was safe once more in my bucket.
Torn and bleeding, we came out on the opposite side; and I perceived, to my satisfaction, that I had made better time than the red rider before me; his halt had lessened the distance between us.
I inquired, seeing the speaker suddenly halt and point to the ground, upon which his eyes also were fixed.
It was this that had caused me to halt in that particular spot; for wild as were my thoughts, I had enough of reason left to know that we could not encamp without water.
Thet we follered up; but it wur night long afore we got half way hyur, an wur obleeged to halt till sun-up.
All this would not have drawn my attention: I was already aware that the Indians had made a halt where we were encamped, and their sign was plenteous around--in the tracks of their animals, and the broken branches of trees.
Their halt was of short duration; the dim light favoured them; rifles already played upon their ranks; and, suddenly wheeling to the left, they struck out into the open plain.
I was on my honour, my steed upon his mettle; and without halt we went plunging through the magueys.
I will be tomorrow on the road to Pirna," said his Majesty; "but I shall halt at Stolpen.
Who am I to halt the Starry Dancers, or bar your wayward trail when Tharon himself has hidden you, and the Little People carry to you 'winged moccasins for flying feet as light and swift!
Halt here," said I, pretending to remain still unconvinced.
I exclaimed, losing my temper, "Do you propose tohalt here at the very mouth of the hornet's nest?
And I was obliged to halt the file and wait until the Wyandotte had changed to spare moccasins; which I am bound to say he seemed to do willingly enough.
Supposing he would halt me, I walked up to him; and he continued to munch the green bough-apple he was eating, making me a most slovenly salute.
I was very glad when a halt was called and we were ordered to find what shelter we could, the regiment being far in advance of the main body.
At this halt I obtained a quantity of tallow, which is an excellent thing with which to anoint the feet, chilblains, cuts, or wounds, and bruises of any kind.
Impeded by the dead weight of their burden, they made sorry progress and several times found it necessary to halt in the shadow of a pillar while the red police passed by in their search of the Square.
The halt left the Duca and the king ape facing each other, and the ape ended his dance.
During the squadron's first halt to feed, he had knocked down his guards and made a bolt for the grazing stallion.
After a halt of two days, the cavalry crossed the Maese, and marched to Coblenz, and thence to Juliers.
Lagardere put his flower into the lapel of his coat, and the pair resumed their silent progress through the orchard till they came to a halt upon the river-bank.
Come, Maltravers, I see before you a brave career, and I cannot permit you tohalt at the onset.
I see before me the broad and luminous path, am I to be condemned to halt and turn aside?
At dusk a halt was made for food, and as the Germans had fallen behind the English spent a quiet night.
It will be premature to estimate them or to estimate those of the German army, which, however, has suffered so severely as to be compelled to halt in its counterattack and establish itself in new positions.
Unless she could halt the Russians pouring in from the north, a success against Servia could do her no good.
A halt was made, and in the same whisper we were told that part of us had to change our direction so that the two directions would form a V.
THE REAR GUARD When we had marched about a mile back in the rear of the battlefield, we were ordered to halt so that all stragglers might pass us, as we were detailed as the rear guard.
He had gone but a short distance in return when he was brought to a sudden and startled halt by sight of a strange figure moving through the trees toward him.
Begrudgingly he permitted a halt while they cooked and ate, and then on again through the wilderness of trees and vines and underbrush.
The captain came to a halt a few paces from the odd pair.
Now and again he would halt to listen as though for an answer to his weird call, then on again, deeper and deeper into the wood.
The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river which marks the natural boundary of the country that the big Bwana rightfully considers almost his own.
When morning came, Hanson permitted a short halt for breakfast, which he had provided in well-filled saddle bags before leaving his camp.
Chapter 27 Korak screamed commands to his huge protector, in an effort to halt him; but all to no avail.
Then they pushed on again, nor did they halt a second time until in the heat of the day he stopped and motioned the girl to dismount.
Every now and again the Ashantis would halt and fire, running on at once, bent double, and busily engaged in putting another charge in their guns.
A little later our hero, with his two black companions, was being marched under escort in amongst the huts, and was finally brought to a halt opposite a collection of tents devoted to the use of the leaders of the expedition.
We halthere for half an hour," said an officer to Dick, as he lay in the bush with his men.
Now we will advance along this flank, and see if we cannot induce some of the enemy to halt and give us a fight.
And every minute he would haltand stare at the forest which had just been left.
Lord knows, we left a trail broad and wet enough for even a Hessian to follow; and for that reason dared not halt north of Frenchman's Creek or short of Vanderveer's grist-mill.
Is not the sport to overcome all these, nor halt short of the reluctant lips, still fluttering in voiceless protest?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
