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Example sentences for "wayfarers"

Lexicographically close words:
waye; wayed; wayes; wayfare; wayfarer; wayfaring; waying; wayis; waylaid; waylay
  1. They now travelled upon a more densely populated tract; they passed wayfarers and pilgrims; great folk on horseback with little folk licking their stirrup.

  2. Escape without stay or delay, for he hath gone forth in quest of wayfarers and right soon will he return.

  3. No, my friends, wayfarers are driven from our walls as if they brought a pestilence in their very garments.

  4. Thus scarcely half a score of wayfarers gathered round Sarchedon, to preserve him from a lonely death on the desert sand.

  5. In plain attire, travel-worn and dejected, she passed on among a crowd of wayfarers heeded by none.

  6. The wayfarers rose from their encampment before dawn.

  7. The hungry wayfarers plunged into it and regaled themselves with the roasted fruit, while the more thoughtful provided a store of plantain flour for the dreaded wilderness ahead.

  8. The truth is that the funds for its construction would go no further, and, in consequence, wayfarers coming along by the shore still have to tread out a path for themselves across a gap of moorland, if they are bound for Lisconnel.

  9. Then the question may occur, why the ordinary accommodation for wayfarers in the casual wards of work-houses has become insufficient or less ample than formerly?

  10. The new project of district asylums for the reception of wayfarers may be given as an example.

  11. The admission of wayfarers to Labour Depots and their travelling from one Depot to another are to be regulated by rules issued by the Provincial Authorities.

  12. Wayfarers who are not, for any reason, admitted to a Depot must be referred to the local authorities as homeless.

  13. The present indiscriminate treatment of all wayfarers works unjustly in every way.

  14. They stated that it was the duty of the relieving officer to relieve casually destitute wayfarers and of the workhouse master to admit such cases to the workhouse.

  15. It must be remembered that the Vagrancy Committee were called upon to inquire into the case of wayfarers exclusively; nevertheless, some of their recommendations are equally applicable to loafers of other classes.

  16. A system of Relief Stations of this kind must cover a given area completely in order to realise its purpose, which is to assist destitute wayfarers to travel in search of work without being under the necessity of begging.

  17. In Switzerland provision is made for wayfarers on much the same lines.

  18. Employment was found for 5,356 of the wayfarers by means of the Labour Registries attached to the Stations.

  19. Wayfarers who apply for relief at a relief station, but are not in possession of a travelling pass, will first be referred to the police as being 'homeless persons.

  20. This provision applies only to wayfarers able to pay.

  21. Wayfarers who, by reason of their having failed to comply with these regulations, have to be refused relief, and who are destitute, will be referred to the local authorities.

  22. And the old man never dreamed but what he had won all of Jerry's heart.

  23. Wiwau prodded with the goad, and Tiha stumbled and wabbled in gymnastic efforts to make speed.

  24. The system adopted in Dorsetshire of giving bread tickets to the public to give to wayfarers failed because of defects in working.

  25. It is not sufficient to look on the tramp ward as a deterrent from vagrancy; it is evident from the evidence already given that it most imperfectly fulfils another function, namely, that of a refuge for wayfarers in extremity.

  26. Plummer says: "It is a generally accepted idea that all wayfarers are worthless idlers, and the only proper way of dealing with them is to make the regulations of casual wards so universally severe that men will avoid them.

  27. In after years the spectral cross Will be quite overgrown with moss, And wayfarers will go their way Nor stop to meditate and pray.

  28. Montigny, 1918 XII Where two roads meet amid the wood, There stands a white sepulchral rood, Beneath whose shadow, wayfarers Would pause to offer up their prayers.

  29. It is a delightfully quiet road; we meet no other wayfarers and aside from the subdued purr of the motor, there is no sound save the wash of the wavelets over the rocks or the rustle of the summer breeze through the trees.

  30. He also personally arranged the hornpipe dance by shepherds in the cottage where three wayfarers take shelter from a storm.

  31. De Montenac, however, would listen to no questions until the wayfarers had been, not only well fed, but furnished with some better covering than the rags that hung about them.

  32. At the same moment he raised his rifle and discharged it in the air, and before the astonished wayfarers could utter a word in reply, he had darted into the thick wood and disappeared.

  33. Labouring men and chance wayfarers were overtaken from time to time.

  34. Gaffer indeed was sound asleep, half a mile off, upon one of those seats set in the open air for the pleasure and convenience of wayfarers about the village.

  35. Have your scouts been able to find the wayfarers who saw him?

  36. The woman, conscious and bound hand and foot, was the Virgin of the Wayfarers who had witnessed Prince Jlomec's death.

  37. And long ago, according to the stories the Wayfarers of Ofrid tell, Bontarc and your mother, Queen Evalla, were allies striving to establish universal peace throughout Tarth.

  38. A band of wayfarers on the Ofridian Plain.

  39. And, with your wayfarers as a nucleus maid Ylia.

  40. She closed her eyes and for a moment thought back over the years they had spent as wayfarers on the Ofridian Plain, the years dreaming of revenge and succor which would never come, the years.

  41. A place which, when wayfarers returned from it miraculously long and long ago, gave rise to the legends.

  42. The handful of wayfarers who alone are left of a once great nation are waiting for vengeance.

  43. In front of the house the street was full of debris and of brigands, who held in their hands, some eatables, others a pitcher, forcing wayfarers to drink and filling for all and sundry.

  44. Such wayfarers as may be there are then guided to the Hospice and, of course, on down to the next rest house.

  45. Five miles of picturesquely winding sandy lanes lead in a gradual descent past Iwade, through orchards, and now and again across rough patches of open pasture, with two field-gates across the route, proclaiming that wayfarers here are few.

  46. Wayfarers are scarce, and the lovely scenery of Broome Park and the road into Denton is quite solitary.

  47. For what class of wayfarers can this be the hostelry?

  48. Walking at a distance from each other, these wayfarers had no visible connection.

  49. It is we who have made it for a memorial and a benefit to the wayfarers of the desert, Praise therefore the name of thy Lord, the Great.

  50. And wayfarers came and sent their drawer of water,7 and he let down his bucket.

  51. One of them said, "Slay not Joseph, but cast him down to the bottom of the well: if ye do so, some wayfarers will take him up.

  52. Up the steep hill road that runs eastward from Glen Effick and gradually gains the upland moor dividing it from the sea, the two wayfarers floundered in the darkness.

  53. It was wearing towards morning, and the wind was perceptibly falling when these wayfarers reached their destination.

  54. Pretty anthologies of prose and verse from British and American authors, respectively for wayfarers and the urbane.

  55. In a narrow pathway we stood aside to let a camel pass: since we had left the coast wayfarers had grown rare for the most part.

  56. The wayfarers saw that everything was seething; the peasants were arming at all points, the forges were working from morning till night, and only the terrible name and power of Prince Yeremi still restrained the bloody outburst.

  57. In a moment sparks sprang out, and soon a blaze flashed up from the dry reeds and pitch-pine which wayfarers through the Wilderness always carried with them.

  58. Around that ravine not far from the river three strong oaks were growing on a mound; to these our wayfarers turned at once.

  59. The wayfarers went on steadily, resting only under the shade of oak-groves.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wayfarers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.