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  • Perhaps it is to my shame that I liked John the better of the two; he had grit and dash, and that salt of the Old Adam that pleases men with any savage inheritance of blood; and he was a way-farer besides, and took my gipsy fancy.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Bright spots in the older locomotion were the road-side inns, and if the testimony of old travellers is to be credited, the way-farer met with a degree of hospitality which made some amends for the difficulties and dangers of the road, and of course figured in the bill to a degree which gave the older Boniface a comfortable subsistence such as his successors to-day would never dream of.

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

  • It was possible, of course, that he might have been like us, a casual way-farer, and yet the suddenness of his appearance, the intentness of his watch, both had their effect upon me.

    The Master Mummer 1906

  • As soon as the host of The Mirror heard this tale, he minded him of that strange, dark man and, when that way-farer came not home to his inn, he made report thereof to the judges.

    Margery — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As soon as the host of The Mirror heard this tale, he minded him of that strange, dark man and, when that way-farer came not home to his inn, he made report thereof to the judges.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • As soon as the host of The Mirror heard this tale, he minded him of that strange, dark man and, when that way-farer came not home to his inn, he made report thereof to the judges.

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Over these boards the two arms of a guide-post serve to direct the way-farer -- on the right hand to the neighbouring villages of Neasdon and Kingsbury, and on the left to the Edgeware Road and the healthy heights of Hampstead.

    Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • There are two reasons by which the extreme thirst which the way-farer suffers in these regions, may be accounted for; first, the intense heat of the sun upon the open and exposed plains; and secondly, the desiccation to which every thing here is subject.

    Townsend Chapter 7 1839

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