"Way station" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Colombian and Peruvian cocaine headed for the US and Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... the train had stopped at a way station, having broken something on the engine, and the thief had left, to walk the remainder of the distance ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... 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
... York. If the immigration came all from one country, we should, because of that, have no problem at all, or not much of one at all events, except perhaps in the Jews, who have lived in Ghettos since time out of mind. The others would speedily be found making only a way station of New York. It is the constant kaleidoscopic change I spoke of that brings us hordes every few years who have to break entirely new ground. It seems to have been always so. Forty years after the settlement of Manhattan Island, ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... pugilist, seeking the belt—the desperate determination to shine and boast as the master power in the field of war, which is to-day the insane ostentation fostered by the leading powers of Europe. Vanity, literally meaning emptiness, is the antithesis of wisdom, and military vanity is a half-way station on ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 • Various |
