About midnight, feeling satisfied that they had gained a secure distance, they posted one of their number to keep watch, in case the enemy should follow on their trail, and then, turning abruptly into a dense and matted thicket of willows, halted for the night at the foot of the mountain, instead of making for the summit, as they had originally intended.
At noon, they halted and made a hasty repast; and then bent their course so as to regain the route from which they had diverged.
Halts were now more frequent, but I did not wish to speak to Dian until I could see from the expression of her face how she was receiving my apologies.
It must not be supposed that the doctor could entirely extinguish his cylinder, during these
halts. The equilibrium of the balloon had been calculated at the level of the sea; and, as the country was continually ascending, and had reached an elevation of from six to seven hundred feet, the balloon would have had a tendency to go lower than the surface of the soil itself.
Here we
halted, and driven to it by our desperate thirst, sucked down our last drops of water.
While affecting to examine the group, which still lingered at the spot where it had first halted, as if to discover the characters of those who composed it, he plainly saw that Ishmael contemplated immediate hostilities.
The squatter, who was in truth slowly retiring, instantly halted his party, and showed a willing front.
At the main entrance we were halted by a cordon of armed guards.
At length we were halted in a spacious chamber in the centre of the temple.
After we had crawled in this disgusting fashion for a matter of a couple of hundred feet we were halted by our escort.
Eco-Trade Corp (OTC: BOPT), an independent oil and gas exploration company, on Wednesday provided an update on its recent trading
halt.
Planning officers are reporting to the committee that one objection has been received which questioned the level of use that would be made of the
halt.
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HALT & HASS testing equipment holds products with a footprint up to 2 x 2 feet and weighing up to 780 pounds.
Release date- 02092019 - In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 17.1, Carnarvon Petroleum Limited ('Carnarvon') (ASX: CVN) requests an immediate trading
halt, pending the release of an announcement in relation to the Dorado3 well results.
