Примери за waylay

• Evidence of waylaying and robbing of tax collectors by criminals is hard to find.

• I shall try not to be waylaid too frequently.

• In those days a lot of people—inspired by private enterprise—used to waylay them and relieve them of their responsibility.

• I do not want to get waylaid, but the debate is about churchwardens so the question is proper.

• I think there is still some waylaying done.

• Of course, it used to be the case that the majority of customers buying hard fuel retail would waylay, as he said, the coalman.

• Then these villains, once they were waylaid, could be dealt with adequately for those attacks.

• They get together to cause that man's death; they waylay him, and they do in fact cause it.

• We must not allow ourselves to be waylaid into thinking that preservation is the only satisfactory alternative.

• We should step up these patrols so that the police are in a position to waylay those who carry out these savage attacks.

• I shall try not to get waylaid on that point, though.

• It is unhelpful to retreat into a knocking copy analysis that is waylaid by arguments that any taxation is bad taxation, and that less taxation must be good.

• To haunt, to startle and waylay.

• I am being waylaid into irrelevancies.

• It is like a gang of thugs who waylay an old age pensioner and say that they are terribly sorry for her, but they must take her purse.