Wait in hiding to attack.
1 We were to lurk in ambush there, and waylay an unwary traveller.
2 Gangs hung about seemingly ready to waylay anyone who appeared relatively defenceless.
3 He was going to waylay me and kill me on the trail.
4 They began to waylay and butcher white men and women and children.
5 He suspected a plot to waylay me, too late to warn me.
6 I don't propose to rob the specie train, or to waylay travellers.
7 The people he'd forced outside were starting to waylay merchant carts and caravans.
8 The idea had been to waylay her before she joined Vane.
9 If she could waylay Alicia as she came in, so much the better.
10 The little house was quiet and dark with no one to waylay them.
11 So he managed to waylay Mrs. Stanbury before she descended to the parlour.
12 The BDOs have yet to waylay a single terrorist, visibly anxious or not.
13 He might have just been a lone highwayman, hoping to waylay unsuspecting merchants.
14 One shop promises to waylay passers by and teach them how to knit.
15 Then Mohammed Shafi'a threatens to waylay and to beat the Haji.
16 Do you want me to go out into the streets and waylay boys?
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