It was Schwartz himself who decided against waylaying his foe by night.
All this time the Kaffirs were creeping into the Colony, sweeping off sheep and cattle, waylaying the settlers, and hanging about the different drifts, watching their opportunity of crossing them unobserved.
The mails could not pass in safety, the enemy sometimes waylaying them, murdering the post riders, and destroying the letter-bags, or stealing the relay horses from the mail contractors.
After we came out of the kloof, the Kaffirs tried all they could to cut us off, waylaying us in every ravine, and firing long shots at us.
Even in the drizzle of a late January afternoon the city assumed in place of her eternal and waylaying beauty a familiarity that for Michael made her henceforth more beautiful.
By one o'clock Piccadilly was nearly empty, and it was an insult to suppose that Lily would be found among these furtive women with their waylaying eyes in the gloom.
Travellers have told queer, queer stories about bands of these wild-eyed Koordish women waylaying and capturing them on the roads through Koordistan, and subjecting them to barbarous treatment.
I have not a doubt," Kapronski continued, "that his one reason for waylaying me was his desire to make an example, just to show what awaited any servant of the law who dared lift a finger against him.
Singly, or at most by twos and threes, they will pursue their villainous trade of waylaying travellers, or perpetrating what robbery they can.
What the deuce was the meaning of this waylaying of Boyce by Daniel Gedge?
Gedge's nocturnal waylayingof him in my front garden was another unsuccessful attempt to tighten the screw.
I have gone a longer way home, through far less pleasant streets, to escape you--yet here you are, waylaying me again.
They were warned by a trusty correspondent--notwithstanding the waylaying of the post was carried into effect--that vigorous preparations were being made to invade Scotland.
James spent fully half of his year in hunting, and if any person or party had an urgent matter to prefer, the only opportunity of doing so was by waylaying him in his rides to the forest.
I resolved to devote this interval to the waylaying of a California treasure-steamer, as a million or so of dollars in gold, deposited in Europe, would materially aid me, in my operations upon the sea.
We had, therefore, a clear sea before us, for carrying out our design of waylaying a California steamer.
This performance had been repeated, back and forth, perhaps a dozen times, when Julia found her father waylaying her.
It is like that ye shall see them," said Clement; "but I shall look on it as a token that they are about waylaying us if we come on none of them in the Mountain House.
Also it might have been a business that interested me if it were a matter of waylaying travellers.
They agreed and, waylaying the noble, stabbed him fatally in the name of the woman he had wronged and slighted, then, carrying the hacked body into the village church, they flung it at the foot of the altar.
Waylaying the buffalo in this manner, and shooting them as they come to water, is the easiest and laziest method of hunting them.
On the 10th of May as the Reverend John Corbly, his wife and five children were going to meeting, (Mr. Corbly being a short distance behind) they were attacked by a party of savages waylaying the road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waylaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
