In 1539 this Baltic pirate was cruising off Antwerp, waiting to waylay English merchant vessels.
Their principal plan was to waylay the Spanish Fleet on its voyage to Panama.
About 1650 Hore turned from a privateer into a pirate, and was very active and successful in taking prizes between New York and Newport, occasionally sailing to Madagascar to waylay ships of the East India Company.
I am not really bothered by these Questions--the hoary old puzzles of Ethics and Philosophy, which lurk around the London corners to waylay me.
Lounging in a desultory way through the rooms, bowing to this, and exchanging a pleasant word with that one of the friends collected to do honor to the infant scion of the house, he contrived to waylay Jessie in the hall.
It must be that they hope to waylay the Federals before they can reach their horses and gallop away.
These told that the rebels were advancing steadily upward toward the spot where the men who had meant to waylay the wigwag operator had taken up their positions.
He believed that the best defence was attack, and boldly proposed to ascend the Ottawa, with a band of sixteen volunteers, and waylay the Iroquois coming from the north-west.
At the head of his men he would waylay and capture the governor and his party on their return from the village.
He and his men would follow, and waylay and capture her at some lonely spot.
There was an air about him as if he had been waiting there to waylay her.
He was rather anxious, because he did not believe that this big comrade of his had come properly attired to waylay anybody.
Redfield, for this was the morning when the Doctor had promised to waylay the little boy.
As to Matthews, he would not be lingering beside the road to waylay them.
Undaunted, she made plans to waylay him on the coulee road.
I timed myself to get there about the hour you left, to keep out of sight until I knew he was returning from the horse show, and to waylay him ALONE and have our little talk without witnesses.
While Spencer strolled off by the side of the lake, the old guide lumbered into the village street, and waited there, knowing that he would waylay the bella Inglesa on her return.
Then I shall know precisely where to waylay you, for I feel the chill here too.
I am ordered to send this berserk with a troop of nineteen men to waylay thee.
Now what ye have to do for your parts, is to waylay the waylayers, and keep watch and ward anigh the road they must needs take, and to fall on when need is.
You might send me word, Uncle Dan, ahead, so that he can't waylay me.
I'll keep the Falins under guard until you reach the Kentucky line, so that they can't waylay you.
I and Johnson laid our heads together, and arranged that we two and Gough should blacken our faces and go and waylay old Garthorpe in the drift about half a mile from the house.
She was then at Stirling, and they were to waylay her on the usual route to Edinburgh.
They formed a plan to rise in rebellion against Mary, to waylay and seize her, to imprison her, and to send Darnley and his father to England, having made arrangements with Elizabeth's ministers to receive them at the borders.
Hamd now told me that Ayd had first seen four Bedouins running down upon us; they had evidently intended to waylay us from behind the corner, but came a little too late.
As we thought it very likely that they would waylay us farther on, in the narrow pass of Montala, we deemed it prudent to retire to Adjeroud, and take shelter in the castle for the night.
And to-morrow she would emulate her aunt and waylay Francis Sales.
Passing along a sandy place in the trail, a snake crossed and left his track, big as a stovepipe it seemed to be, and after this we kept a sharp watch for big snakes that might be in waiting to waylay us for game.
He soon sold out, however, and went to a more congenial camp for he said these people were cowardly enough to waylay and kill him unawares.
Touts stand at the doorway of every inn, who excitedly waylay the traveller and cry the merits of their houses.
Bumboats, laden to the rail, waylay the boats en route, and offer an armful of fresh vegetables for the equivalent in copper cash of three-eighths of a penny.
Taking the shape of the jaguar they approach the lonely sleeping-places, or waylay Indians in the forests.
A woodman whose dinner was stolen from him daily by a cat made many attempts towaylay the creature.
Colonel Reed was ordered to send out rangers and bodies of militia to scour the country, waylay foraging parties, cut off supplies and keep the cantonments of the enemy in a state of siege.
He had been induced to waylay Parish Thornton at the demand of one whom he dared not incense on pain of exposures that would send him to the penitentiary.
If there were any chance at all, however slight, that Parish Thornton could emerge, alive and free, from his predicament in court Rowlett wished to waylay and kill him on the journey home.
De Berquin had probably retained his men that he might have one to use as messenger to the governor, in notifying La Chatre where to place his ambuscade, and that he might have others to waylay mademoiselle.
It cannot be that; if they had desired your death, they would have hired assassins to waylay you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waylay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ambush; buttonhole; hold; kidnap; surprise
