way-worn

Foot-sore, way-worn, half-starved looking men they were, as they tried to steal into town in the early dawn, before people were astir, or in the dusk of the evening.

Mary Barton 2010

He took Bonner moose-hunting and wolf-trapping; and, in return, Bonner resurrected a battered and way-worn volume and made him friends with Shakespeare, till

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

When she receives her inheritance, she proposes to make her castle a festive refuge for “way-worn folks,” “[be] nighted” and “noble travellers” (2.1.110 – 111, 122), neighbors, and unemployed and worn-out military veterans.

The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream 2008

To a hill he hied him, upon which stood a castle, and sought here lodgment, as way-worn travelers do.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

When the way-worn warriors had rested them and came nearer to the Hunnish land, they found a man asleep upon the border, from whom Hagen of Troneg won a sturdy sword.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Instead, the committee saw two way-worn individuals climb down from the stage, unkempt, unshorn — clothed in the roughest of frontier costume, the same they had put on at St. Jo — dusty, grimy, slouchy, and weather-beaten with long days of sun and storm and alkali desert dust.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Howells made immediate preparation for receiving two way-worn, hungry men.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

It was like a flying salute addressed to the way-worn travelers.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Olenin had at first imagined that the way-worn, gallant

The Cossacks 2003

A coarse brown blanket enveloped his spare and way-worn body, his only clothing and shelter from the heat by day and the cold by night, a fold of which fell upon his naked feet.

Travels in Morocco 2003