Wayworn

On May 4 he arrived in New Orleans a wayworn and nearly forgotten man. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

The inn was so full that my hostess said she could not give me a bed — rather an unwelcome announcement to a wayworn traveller — and with considerable complacency she took me into ❋ Unknown (2007)

Care beset the wayworn travelers, as to when they should go to bed and rest them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming through Canterbury, wayworn and ragged, and should find me out? ❋ Unknown (2007)

All the African travellers, wayworn, solitary and sad, submit themselves again to drunken, murderous, man-selling despots, of the lowest order of humanity; and Mungo ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was a serious consideration to me, who at that time was travelling through the West with a very small and very wayworn portmanteau, with Glasgow, Torquay, Boston, Rock Island, and I know not what besides upon it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

London, he looked at _me_, then at _it_, suspiciously, as if doubting whether the possessor of such a little wayworn portmanteau could he the _bonâ fide_ owner of such a sum as the figures represented. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As he stood in the doorway, the poor old careworn wayworn woman burst into tears, and clasped her hands, as if in a very agony she prayed to him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Down that hill came a horseman slowly, with nobody to notice him, though himself on the watch for everybody; and there in the bottom below the first cottage he allowed his horse to turn aside and cool hot feet and leathery lips, in a brown pool spread by Providence for the comfort of wayworn roadsters. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Returning from the battle of the Moat, wayworn and tired with fighting, he here sat down to wash and comb his hair, when suddenly appeared to him the Archangel ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some were young, others had white beards — all were weary and wayworn; but the saddest sight was an old woman, so decrepit that she could scarcely walk. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And after this there came the tchibouque — great comforter of those that are hungry and wayworn. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His optics showed Rover, an ungainly shape, battered and wayworn. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1991)

From her left shoulder hung a rolled-up blanket, just as wayworn, which held a wooden bowl and perhaps one or two other things. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

Silent he abided until the three wayworn, mud-splashed newcomers reached his high seat. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

Service, oh, nothing too hazardous any more, staff rather than field Intelligence -- nonetheless, swordplay of wits in the glad knowledge that this was for the future, not the poor wayworn Empire but a world he too could believe in, the world of their own blood. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)