Here Cunningham halted for some time, with the view of ascertaining the practicability of a passage across the range to Moreton Bay.
On reaching the Bonney he halted for a few days, during which time the cloudy aspect of the sky made him entertain the idea of another effort to reach the Victoria River; but no rain fell, and he had to keep on his way.
Finding fresh feed lower down the river, the party halted for the benefit of the cattle, who, unable to drink the water, soaked their bodies in it.
The night of the first day found them camped amongst the reeds, which they came upon sooner than they expected, and the next day they halted for the purpose of preparing the dispatches for the Governor.
Twilight was setting in when the Major began to catch glimpses of the laced hats of coachman and footmen over the hedges, a lumbering made itself heard, and by and by the vehicle halted at the gate.
When I had hidden myself, theyhalted opposite me at a certain rock which stands beside the track.
His words again halted to make way for his Titanic laughter.
Below them we haltedand threw explosive Favier into the water in the hope of getting fish, and as soon as the upheaval of the water began the Kenyahs, as if by a given signal, hurried all the prahus out to the scene.
Captain Irby immediately halted his troop for about five minutes.
Here, under the dark shadow of the towers, theyhalted and listened.
This cortege halted at the village of Armilla, a league and a half from the city.
Not dreaming of such a movement, Don Pedro had haltedat Montiel, where his men lay dispersed, in search of food and forage, over a space of several leagues.
The wary Don Fadrique, in doubt as to the meaning of this double movement, and fearing treachery, halted at a safe distance, and drew off for the night to a secure situation.
Their guide led them up a channel of the river Darro, until they halted under a bridge near the royal gate.
Then he passed sadly onward to meet the sovereigns of Spain, who had halted awaiting his approach, while the army stood drawn up on the broad plain.
The Elchee halted till daylight, and then proceeded towards the village; where he found his mehmandar, two Kurdish chiefs, and three or four principal men of the country, consulting what was to be done.
The first mission had halted at the village of Taaghoon, within a short distance of Isfahan, where we met a chief called Meerza Mehdee Khan, who had served under Lord Clive in Bengal.
The next place on our route meriting notice is the village of Akleed, where the first mission halted for some days.
The two halted some ten paces in front of the cavern, and the belligerents surveyed each other.
He halted beside a small poon-tree, and stooped to find something embedded near its roots.
Hardee, moving out in advance, in the afternoon of Thursday, halted Friday forenoon at Mickey's house, about seventeen miles from Corinth.
As soon as this line was formed, interposed between the enemy and the retiring regiments, they halted and waited for ammunition.
So reinforced, he continued his advance three hundred yards, met the advance of Shaver's brigade, halted on the edge of a field, and repulsed it.
Chalmers, being out of ammunition, and the wagons being far to the rear, haltedtill ammunition could be brought up.
The right wing halted and intrenched immediately beyond and to the west of Monterey on May 4th.
Twice again he halted in line as if to make a stand, and retreated as the National troops approached.
About ten o'clock you moved forward with your staff and halted within about half a mile of the enemy's camps.
About two o'clock he found the Fifth and Twenty-fourth Tennessee and Fifteenth Arkansas "halted under the brow of an abrupt hill.
They halted the infantry and artillery at a point about five miles in my front, and sent a detachment to the house of General Meeks, on the north of Owl Creek, and the cavalry down toward our camp.
I rode on for some hours, till I felt quite safe from any immediate pursuit, and then wehalted in the shelter of a clump of trees.
We halted the Begaum, and with our fingers on the triggers, awaited the favourable moment.
The Chinaman halted at length in a clump of trees surrounded by a thick undergrowth.
At last they halted before two cottages standing by themselves, thrust the prisoners into a small room, removed their gags, and left them to themselves.
Involuntarily I halted at the entrance to my snug bachelor quarters as the flood of light my turning of the switch produced revealed a huddled figure slumped in an easy chair.
Barely fifteen minutes later I halted my roadster at the short flight of steps leading to the main door of The Grange.
He halted once more, a dim and grotesque figure in the fog.
Igor halted his troops, and collecting his chieftains in counsel, communicated to them the message of the emperor.
Alexander, terrified by the destruction of his Prussian allies, halted his troops upon the other side of the Vistula, and from his vast realms collected recruits.
At eleven o'clock we halted on an open piece of ground on the left bank of the river, and, the rain abating a little, managed to make a fire and catch and broil some fish.
Finding that, run as he would, his pursuer was gaining on him, the man haltedand turned round to give battle.
When she caught sight of Alphonse, Sorais haltedher train and called to him.
We halted and watched, for the sentry we knew was posted at the opening.
Having halted and carefully put the rifle at 'safety', we started again, and all went well till we were within one hundred yards or so of the kraal, when his teeth began to chatter in the most aggressive way.
Some of the parties in the boats began to cry out in fear; others turned and made off as hard as they could; and even the old gentleman with the sword looked greatly puzzled and alarmed, and halted his big row-boat.
In the evening we crossed the Swan Lake, about six miles in breadth, and eight in length, and halted on its south side for the night, twenty-four miles S.
We turned to the westward on the Root River, which enters the Sepanach, and halted on its banks having made in direct distance not more than twenty miles since the 23rd.
At six on the following morning we passed the Rein-Deer Islands, and at ten reached the entrance of the Dog River, where we halted to set the fishing nets.
We halted for the night on the borders of a small lake, which washed the base of a ridge of sand-hills, about three hundred feet high, having walked in direct distance sixteen miles.
We continued our walk along the south end of this arm for about a mile further, and then halted to breakfast amidst a cluster of pines.
And that mighty caravan finding it was evening halted at that place.
Instead of pushing on to the uttermost extremity of the summit, the forlorn hope halted about 5 a.
At Fincham's Farm the column halted for the night, and next day marched to Belmont.
The Lancers pushed on five miles in their furious gallop, maintaining, however, the most perfect order, and then were halted to allow the Horse Artillery guns to come up.
Here he halted some days and waited for reinforcements.
When we were about half way there, we were halted and ordered to fix bayonets and carry the hill at the point of the bayonet.
A second line of kopjes, one mile in advance of One Tree Hill, was reached and gained without incident, and there the brigade halted till night, and then under cover of darkness fell back.
When his master halted at the brink of a pool, and looked round to call him, he stopped outright.
When they got to where the stalks were very short because of the shade cast by the trees of the wood, they halted again.
Six steps from the bottom of the flight he halted and said, "I reckon it's me you're looking for.
Suddenly the bugle sounded, and the column halted with a jolting upheaval amid sharp, brief cries.
When he arrived at the cornfield he halted and waited for Peter.
They were halted and stupefied by some unknown calamity.
At the top of the bank the column again haltedand rearranged itself, as a man after a climb rearranges his clothing.
The men halted and, grimy, perspiring, and puffing, they searched the recesses of the woods with eager, fierce glances.
He had an idea where he would be halted, if halted at all, and it was a lonesome spot in a valley, the very place for a deed of crime to be committed.
The whole force halted and Gates was directed to go forward across the valley and through the timber, which I judge was nearly a mile in width.
We halted our teams and went forward on foot and discovered that there was but one place where the descent could be made at all and that was along a steep, rough canyon at one place in which the wagons had to be let down by hand.
When the foremost boat reached a point near the shore and directly opposite us, it was halted and ordered ashore.
When we reached the mouth of Raft River, a small stream which flows into the Snake River from the south, we halted for a conference.
The soft ground of the cornfield checked their speed and the fence halted them, I think, for I never saw them any more.
I halted and turned to Fish and said, "If you will give me one of my navies I will run!
When within forty yards of the trenches the front row halted and waited for the rear line of bales to come up.
We halted a little while here to rest and to inspect this great wonder and then pushed on in a north-westerly direction toward Fort Hall, which is located on Snake River.
The driver ran just as the boy had anticipated, but when the boy started to follow, playing Indian all the time, the driver halted long enough to put a load of shot into the boy.
They had not drawn the guns which some of them had or the bows and arrows which others carried, and the first attempt to draw a weapon meant a dead Indian and they knew it, so they halted and fell back.
The guards around the tent halted us and asked if we had a pass.
The enemy approached within two miles of our trench and halted and remained in that position nearly a week.
I don't pretend I am eager to make friends with bullets, but at Whitehall, after marching some 20 miles, I was on this account really glad when I heard cannonading ahead and the column was halted and the fight began.
Armstrong was not disturbed by Miss Durant's programme, for the whole distance was walked in silence; and even when they halted on the corner, he said nothing, though the girl was conscious that his eyes still studied her face.
Here both armies halted face to face, Sheridan for the night; but Early, as soon as it was fairly dark, fell back about five miles on the Port Republic road, and again halted at a point about fourteen miles short of that town.
Paine's brigade the flag was halted and its purpose ascertained.
Early in the afternoon of the 10th, after a march of twenty miles, the columnhalted at the Bayou Mayon.
That night Paine encamped at Redwood creek; on the 6th he made a short march to the Comite, distant nine miles from his objective, and there haltedtill midnight.
At seven o'clock in the evening of the 22d of April, Birge halted for the night two miles beyond Cloutierville.
After crossing the Shenandoah and reaching the foot of Three Top, Gordon halted his men for a few hours' rest before the hard work awaiting them.
While waiting for fresh advices in answer to his own communications and proposals Banks halted, and while he halted Taylor got time to breathe and Kirby Smith to gather new strength.
Leaving Alexandria on the morning of the 15th, Paine marched twenty miles and halted at Lecompte.
Later Mrs. Ralston stooped over him and took the baby away, and he laid his head down upon the pillow by Stella's and wished with all his soul that the Gate before which her feet had halted would open to them both.
Within half a dozen paces of them, in the full moonlight, the shambling figure halted and salaamed with clawlike hands extended.
A few seconds later Paul had haltedin front of the young woman; and his dog gazed at him earnestly, without moving from his place, as if to say: "I am very comfortable here!
Upon this, Fritz's artillery came rattling up, and formed action front in advance of the halted cavalry.
A train of miners with their mine-candles in their hands, and musicians before them, was halted before a handsome house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
