Squire Western is in pursuit of his daughter but gets waylaid by a hunt and ends up returning home.

Byron's Don Juan is waylaid while romantically musing on Shooter's Hill when he first arrives in London ( Canto XI ).

The situation of landless farmers who challenged the system in the rural south as late as 1941 has been described thus: " he is at once a target subject of ridicule and vitriolic denunciation ; he may even be waylaid by hooded or unhooded leaders of the community, some of whom may be public officials.

* 2509-Cirion, Steward of Gondor, sends summons to the Éothéod for military aid ; Celebrían is waylaid by Orcs, receives a poisoned wound, and consequentially departs Middle-earth

* The story includes an arc where Wormtongue is waylaid by the Ringwraiths.

He attempts to escape, but he is waylaid by the Huntress in the shuttle bay.

Sir Thopas is the story in tail rhyme of a child knight who goes on a quest to find his elf-queen but is waylaid by the giant Sir Oliphant ( elephant ).

His mission is waylaid, though, after he develops illogical attraction for Alice, the eldest daughter.

He is waylaid by a cackling hag who says both he and Elenya will die.

Nancy also is waylaid at the airport after determining to go there to find her namesake.

Soon the second prototype is stolen from the high-security lab by those who waylaid her, but escapes into a lake near the town of Lago Nogales and begins feeding on the unwary populace.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

Deborah Cadbury says that she invested with a conman who swindled her and disappeared with the money, but Shelley Emling writes that is not clear whether the man ran off with the money or whether he died suddenly leaving Anning with no way to recover the investment.

Royal Air Force Corporal Peter Newkirk ( British-American actor Richard Dawson ) is the group's conman, magician, pick-pocket, card sharp, forger, bookie, tailor, lock picker, safe cracker and impersonator of German officers ( and on one occasion, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the war ); on numerous occasions Newkirk also impersonates women to fool the Germans and help the underground movement.

While this relationship continues, Jennifer finds out he's a conman and eventually realizes she is still in love with Jack.

He is a thief, conman and charlatan who speaks in impenetrable rhyming slang and spends his days drinking, selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by on the streets and being violent to his wife.

Noah is shocked that his father is willing to leave Lizzie alone with a conman, but H. C. understands his daughter's needs, " even if it's only one minute — with a man talkin ' quiet and his hand touchin ' her face.

In the episode's final scene, Rodney asks Del if he is anything like Robdal, but Del denies it, labelling Robdal several names like a " thief ", a " conman ", a " liar " and a " cheat ", none of which apply to Rodney.

During his time as a conman, Lipwig took advantage of the fact that he has no notable physical traits and is easily forgettable.

* Coat-tugger: A racecourse conman who will tip a horse to a punter, and if the horse wins, is always present when the punter collects, to demand a portion of the winnings.

Sing-up reveals that Hart is a former conman who won the ship in a crooked card-game.

Robert Hendy-Freegard ( born Robert Freegard, 1 March 1971 ) is a British barman, car salesman, conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people to go underground for fear of IRA assassination.

On the day of the funeral, Jacob expresses his condolences to Sawyer, even as he is writing his ' I am going to find you ' letter for the conman who took his family.

This man, not Ben, reveals he is Anthony Cooper ( Locke's father ), a conman who also goes under the name " Tom Sawyer.

However, it soon emerges that Lewis is a conman after he steals 4, 000 pounds from the bookies.

The bank ( run by the conman character and is a tattoo parlor in the back ) is so certain that Peter will default on the loan that they sell the house to another family and repossess his furniture before the payment deadline arrives, so the Griffins have to share their home with the other family in a redecorated house.

The original Prankster is Oswald Loomis, a criminal and conman who uses elaborate practical jokes to commit crimes.