way-lay

She then told me, that they had undoubted information, that a certain desperate ruffian (I must excuse her that word, she said) had prepared armed men to way-lay my brother and uncles, and seize me, and carry me off. —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Instead, I thought the right question might way-lay her.

Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005

Instead, I thought the right question might way-lay her.

Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005

Assouan, to way-lay us in this narrow pass, and to levy a contribution upon us as passage money.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Mr. Western took care to way-lay the lover at his exit from his mistress.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

That they did not, on any occasion, way-lay me or the doctor, when detached from the body of the party, may perhaps, with equal truth, be set down as a favourable trait in the character of the aborigines; for whenever they visited my camp, it was during my absence, when they knew I was absent, and of course must have known where I was to be found.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Farther, that God will bring it to pass that all things shall work together for good to them that love him, is not intended by Mr Goodwin as though it should infallibly be so indeed, but only that God will so way-lay them with some advantages that it may be so, as well as otherwise.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Orsino against the Count; and Beatrice proposes to way-lay him (a plot, however, which fails) in a _deep and dark ravine_, as he journeys to

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

His _débonnaire_ facility was so well known, that people used to way-lay him in the street with a petition and an ink-stand, and he often signed, without inquiry, things that should never have been granted.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Western took care to way-lay the lover at his exit from his mistress.

VII. A Picture of Formal Courtship in Miniature. Book VI 1917