"Way station" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hand, the house became in time merely a sort of way station between the busy terminals of his life. I dare say he grew indifferent to his wife. That however, has nothing to do ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... seemed to have been amused and rewarded by his visit. The previous Sunday had found him in London; he was anxious to reach Gad's Hill before the afternoon, but in order to accomplish this he must walk nine miles to a way station, which he did. Coming to the little village, he inquired where the station was, and, being shown in the wrong direction, walked calmly down a narrow road which did not lead there at all. "On I went," ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields
... say; and consented to a meeting next autumn at some half-way station, where their great business might be brought to a happy settlement and betrothment. Both Olaf Tryggveson and the high dowager appear to have been tolerably of willing mind at this meeting; but Olaf interposed, ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... about such an evening as this, too—we had barely stopped at a way station when some one rushed up to the train and said Gray Gerardo's band ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various |
