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to stop someone (without their forewarning) to attack them or to talk- I worried that the gang might be waiting outside to waylay me.
- She waited near the exit to waylay him and learn more about the event.
- Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The dancing had been going on for over half an hour and every time he tried to get near her either she got waylaid or he did.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- What he felt was the chilly recklessness that had come to waylay his heart.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- 'What is the truth of it all?' demanded Miss Ellie Henderson waylaying Poirot.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Took advantage of fog to waylay me.Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
- None of them could hope to waylay him.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- That young husband was waylaid and impressed, and sent to sea.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- She had waited to waylay me, I decided.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair: because of the way I've treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- I must go up the road and waylay him.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- I know a place where we could waylay her, four of us with sharp swords ....George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- Told her that Cook sent us to get crowleaf from the storage room by the barracks and that Marcus waylaid us on the way back.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- A Hutu militia group called FNL, a branch of PALIPEHUTU, had waylaid it.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- She asked him to pardon her for waylaying him at such an unseemly time.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- After dinner broke up, Jason and Piper tried to waylay Leo.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- 'I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill me,'— FABIAN.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- "I've sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- I believe Riggs had a plan with those other men to waylay Nell and make off with her.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
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