The man was alone, and George Waters, who was an expert marksman, could have waylaid and shot him.
Mistaking altogether the situation, believing my dear father to have been the first abductor of the girl, he waylaid him and struck that fatal blow which caused his death, and which had so nearly cost you, also, your life.
He wakened up to see two men looking down upon him; he knew that these were the Cercopes, robbers whowaylaid travelers upon this road.
Now he held them securely and he would take them to the town and give them over to those whom they had waylaid and robbed.
De la Zouch waylaid us," answered the esquire, "and we fell into his trap.
Sir Henry told us a similar story, but then it was you who had waylaid him.
As he returned Wolley waylaid him and drew him into a corner.
But Ovington had the knack of attaching men to him, the lads were loyal, and they had returned only hard words to those who waylaid them.
Flunk Marr waylaid me, and he's carried her off and married her.
The white tree-trunks were in league against him, andwaylaid him, striking him violently.
The prisoner, this Americano, had waylaidhim in the wood two days before, and had robbed him of his last cent.
It was by bandits under the command of wicked priests that Fujiwara Tokiyoshi, governor of Aki, and Tachibana Kinkado, governor of Kii, were waylaid and plundered.
Shigeyoshi's son, Akiyoshi, waylaid the two Ko on their route to Kyoto to take the tonsure, and Moronao and Moroyasu were both killed.
In the meantime she had paid for the horse to ride through the desert, not to be waylaid by Arab bandits.
Well might he apply that epithet to that assassin; for he had just been fed and caressed by the very person whom he waylaid and murdered.
In January four soldiers and a ranger were waylaid not far from the fort, disabled by bullets, and then scalped alive.
A young Pennsylvanian named James Smith, a spirited and intelligent boy of eighteen, had been waylaid by three Indians on the western borders of the province and led captive to the fort.
When I came down to breakfast the next morning, the landlady in tears waylaid me.
The important note was written and Anne herself carried it to the Grafton post office, where she waylaid the mail carrier and asked him to leave it at the Avonlea office.
That good lady had waylaid the schoolchildren at her gate and demanded of them how they liked their new teacher.
Later, when the servants in Jastrzeb began to repeat that the young heir was waylaid not by them, but by people of Rzeslewo, this hatred became extinguished.
In Wilczodola, a few versts from here, they waylaid and maimed Pan Baezynski and robbed the branch office of the governmental whiskey monopoly besides.
Jean, and quickly as he leaped behind the pine he was not quick enough to escape the cunning rustlers who had waylaid him thus.
He had waylaid her as she went to a spring for water, and with a lunge like that of a bear he had tried to embrace her.
She was herself so certain that she waylaid him on the moor next day, but to her amazement he did not answer her smile of greeting and passed on without a word.
They waylaid him successfully where the road met Halkett's lane, and from his horse he looked down on the two upturned faces.
As an evidence of this, Sam Brady, the celebrated Indian-fighter, once waylaid and shot an old Indian on the Susquehanna who was accompanied by his two sons, aged respectively sixteen and eighteen years.
The next day, as usual, we blacked and painted, and waylaid them near Sideling Hill.
They even waylaid the gap through which the war-path ran; but all to no purpose, for they got clear of the settlements by some other route.
As the three girls left the table, the Dowager waylaid Harriet.
As she was listlessly preparing to mount the stairs, Maggie waylaid her with the message: "Mrs. Trent would like to speak to you in her private study, Miss Patty.
Even as I write comes word from a little frontier fur post which I visited in 1901, of a seven-year-old boy being waylaid and devoured by a grisly only four miles back from a transcontinental railway.
Here hath a great misfortune chanced, the ordeal hath gone over us; King Arthur hath been taken captive and we know not where he may be, he was waylaid and betrayed in a forest, whither he went to hunt, and we saw him never more.
Trusting to these letters, he set out to visit his wife at Bury, but at Brentwood was waylaid by a set of ruffians called the Black Band, and sent by the Bishop of Winchester.
An anonymous Hebrew writer writes from Jerusalem in 1495, that a few days before a Jew from Hebron had been waylaid and robbed.
On the road, the student was often attacked, but, as happened with the son of the great Asheri, who was waylaid by bandits near Toledo, the robbers did not always get the best of the fight.
On the very day on which this occurred his wife's uncle, Philip Berney, was waylaid by some of the same fellowship, in the highway under Thorpe Wood.
On that day he and Warwick thought fit to come to the Parliament with a company of 300 armed men, alleging that they stood in danger of being waylaid upon the road.
William Tresham, the Speaker of the last Parliament, having received a summons from the duke to meet him, was waylaid and murdered in Northamptonshire by a body of the retainers of Lord Grey of Ruthin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waylaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
