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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
143 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
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waylay
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synonyms: buttonhole ???
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Definition:to stop somebody and trouble them in some fashion, as to hold them in conversation
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even so the benediction of a heart oppressed with gratitude might have a like prerogative, might have power given to it from above to chase, to haunt, to waylay, to overtake, to pursue thee into the central darkness of a London brothel, or (if it were possible) into the darkness of the grave, there to awaken thee with an authentic message of peace and forgiveness, and of final reconciliation!
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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I must go up the road and waylay him.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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