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Example sentences for "wayside"

Lexicographically close words:
waylay; waylaying; wayle; waymarks; ways; waysides; wayt; wayte; wayted; wayting
  1. As it appeared from the dark clouds overhead that a wet night had set in, I took shelter in a wayside inn at a place called Steeple Aston.

  2. The wayside was bordered by grassy sward.

  3. The wayside villages and the scattered hamlets that nestle between the folds of its chalky hills are made up of cottages built with chalk rubble, or with black flints and red brick mixed.

  4. Here stands a grand wayside oak beside a steep lane leading down into Harting Coombe, and the bare branches of this giant tree make a most effective natural composition with the tiled front of the inn and its curious swinging sign.

  5. From Catherington, one may either retrace one's steps to the Portsmouth Road above Horndean, or else continue on the by-lanes that bring the pedestrian to the highway below that wayside hamlet.

  6. It is just a neat and comparatively recent place, like most of the wayside settlements that now begin to dot the highway between this and Portsmouth.

  7. See what a long list the wayside commons make from London to Portsmouth.

  8. The pair became intimate, partly from the contrasts in their characters; they drank from the same cup at the wayside torrents, broke the same biscuit, and were both made sergeants at the peace which followed the battle of Marengo.

  9. It came, with the breath of wild grape vines, hidden somewhere in the wayside thickets.

  10. Such as these were the wayside meanings that came to Leslie Goldthwaite that morning in the first few hours of her journey.

  11. Yet in the angle of the wood he saw a wayside box of stone sheltering an image of the Virgin, with the Holy Child in its arms.

  12. Every wayside shrine of Hinduism incarnates the old faith in gods conceived as friends, not things; and Buddha, who taught impersonal deity, is now himself adored as the Personal Lord of Love and Blessedness.

  13. In paths unknown we hear the feet Of fear before, and guilt behind; We pluck the wayside fruit, and eat Ashes and dust beneath its golden rind.

  14. Oh, here with His flock the sad Wanderer came; These hills He toiled over in grief are the same; The founts where He drank by the wayside still flow, And the same airs are blowing which breathed on His brow!

  15. At a wayside station an old woman hobbled to the window with a basket of grapes.

  16. On this occasion the strike and holiday traffic caused us to stop at countless wayside stations; it was after eight when we reached Chepstow, but, thanks to O'Rane, the journey was the most hilarious I have ever undertaken.

  17. And one died by the wayside as the king's troops entered Rome.

  18. Three miles from the southern gate of Bommel, on the road which led to Ameldroyen, there stood a solitary auberge, or wayside tavern.

  19. Here he suddenly found himself joined by a horseman, who came either from the wayside thicket or out of the ground--it might have been either, so unexpected was his appearance.

  20. This votive wayside cross had been erected by the eldest son of Reinald, the warlike duke of Gueldres, as a propitiation for his unnatural conduct, in making a captive of his father, who died in 1325.

  21. In the Tales of a Wayside Inn the "Ride of Paul Revere" is as natural a play of his power as "King Robert of Sicily".

  22. When she stepped out on the platform of the wayside station of Greywolds she looked about.

  23. A whiff of the perfume of buns and hot loaves from a wayside shop decided the question.

  24. The Redeemer's features remained miraculously impressed on the linen, and from that time the flowers of the wayside Speedwell have ever borne a representation of the precious relic.

  25. Those stakes by the wayside with wheels fastened to them are his mile-posts.

  26. Each one of us must hold fast to the branches on both sides, and draw up his legs so as not to get entangled in the wayside shrubs and briars.

  27. Have the pale wayside weeds no fond regret For him who read the secrets they enfold?

  28. Some pansy, with its wondering baby eyes Poor wayside nursling!

  29. In a humbler way, the village and wayside inns contain good men and true who follow in the footsteps of Harry Bailey.

  30. Quite a small thing will turn a lady traveller against a wayside inn.

  31. The messenger was induced to stop at a wayside inn and plied with brandy until he became so intoxicated that the papers could be taken from his person without detection.

  32. Wayside inns needed no licence and were usually carried on by a hosteller who combined the occupation with that of farmer or tradesman of some kind.

  33. For a model wayside inn of the smaller class, where the internal treatment shows good taste with the utmost simplicity commend us to the White Hart at West Wickham.

  34. The grass is yellow, the weeds are parched; and where there have been wayside pools, the ground is cracked and dry.

  35. Some eight hundred paces from here is a good wayside tavern, (mansio.

  36. The fire of the wayside forge lay under its ashes; all its anger taking rest, its hoarse roar asleep, till the breath of the bellows should once more awaken it to resistance and torment it into fury.

  37. Ended, too, his brief lingering in the sunset at the wayside inn; and for Adam Hepburn now came the eternal enjoyment of that sweet rest which remaineth for the people of God.

  38. He appeared like one who had no hold upon this present life, but who was simply sojourning at a wayside inn, waiting and waiting for a summons to come farther on.

  39. Eli, who trembled for the Ark of God, sat outside the city gate, by the wayside watching.

  40. Those by the wayside are they that hear; then cometh the devil and taketh away the Word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved.

  41. And as for the Judsons, theirs was one of the wayside tragedies that keep ever alongside the line of civil strife.

  42. Did you see any one, or is it just a wayside camp for movers going out on the trail?

  43. He slipped past the wayside inn; he glided by the cottages and gardens at the outskirts of the village; and then, leaving the more thickly inhabited part on one side, went by a rickyard.

  44. He has probably seen it before in the bar of the wayside inn, roughly hung on a nail, and swaying to and fro with the draught along the passage.

  45. By mutual, if unexpressed consent, they intended to call at the wayside inn when they reached it, to rest on the hard bench outside, and take a quart of stronger ale.

  46. He will see it patiently waiting, with a slight curl of steam over the boiler, by the wayside inn while its attendants take their lunch.

  47. I have always been much impressed by the advice of St. Chrysostom: "Depart from the highway and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree which stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

  48. Under present conditions it is hard to get the needful seclusion, on which account it is that our educational market is so full of wayside fruit.

  49. But our own representative at that town chanced to board the train at a wayside hamlet and found the papers I carried sufficient.

  50. From sunrise on huge lizards scurried up among the wayside rocks as we passed, and sat torpid, staring at us with their lack-luster eyes.

  51. The dusk found us still floundering in the mud on wayside paths.

  52. We stopped at wayside inns and politely treated the old lady to coffee at a penny a cup to make up for our inappreciation of her conversational powers.

  53. I humbly took my shelter under the wayside shade where every strange traveller may stand.

  54. In the wayside under the tree sits the beggar.

  55. I got testy several times in the night walking into scrub trees by the wayside half asleep.


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