Word: waylaid
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...Worden travels between Andalusia and La Mancha at a time when "Inquisition ruffians" scour the hills for outlaws, and banditry is rampant. He is waylaid, not by brutes of any stripe, but by two gorgeous Moslem sisters whom he meets underneath a deserted inn. They claim they are descended from the family of van Worden's Iberian mother, and wish to love and share him equally because they love each other...
Miss Jens is pretty enough to enact the Egyptian, who ages from 29 to 39. But she is not queenly, nor is she sexy. She does not embody the fatal allure that could pull Antony off his course in the way Dido waylaid Aeneas. Vocally, Miss Jens lacks a sense of rhythm and musicality...
...ceremonies took place at noon as a handful of autograph hunters, a clubhouse full of Puddings, and two waylaid churchgoers attended a preview of the 124th running of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a musical spoof of the American revolution entitled The Wrongway Inn, scheduled to hit the boards officially this Thursday night...
WHEN Attorney General Bobby Kennedy won the conviction that sent Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa to prison, many people wondered whether blind justice hadn't been waylaid in favor of a grudge. The word was that Kennedy had a vendetta and that it was selective justice that had put Hoffa away...
Strindberg and Senelick seem to have their vendettas and perhaps blind justice has been waylaid...