waylay

• My plan now was to obtain a complete suit of clothes from the first person whom I could waylay, and I should then find my way to the north coast, where there were many smugglers and fishermen who would be ready to earn the reward which was paid by the Emperor to those who brought escaping prisoners across the Channel. —  The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
• I have heard of a nation among the Indians who hold it a sacred duty to murder every one not of their own tribe, whom they can waylay: and when they are taken and punished by the rulers of that country, die joyfully under the greatest torments, believing themselves certain of an entrance into the Elysian fields, in proportion to the number of murders which they have committed A. —  Phaethon
• It is easy, therefore, to "waylay" a tapir. —  The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
• Later, he convinced himself that the supposed spy was little more than a red herring drawn across the trail, and that the man's real motive was to take me out of London, or waylay or detain me in some fashion, since it was manifestly impossible that my presence in the Mansions should be known to any one. —  Number Seventeen
• Hereupon Na'im passed her goblet to her compeer and she, whose name was Surúr,[FN#287] tossed it off and taking in hand her lute, sang these couplets How is't with heart of me all cares waylay * As drowned in surging tears of Deluge-day? —  Arabian nights. English

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