| 1. | I must go up the road and waylay him. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 2. | Reads 'I will waylay thee going home where if it b. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but I was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train from Waterloo and as it was then about a quarter past five, I went home, had some tea, and walked up to the station to waylay him. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | Why should I fly They'll still my steps waylay It is so wretched, forced to beg my living, And a bad conscience sharper misery giving It is so wretched, to be strange, forsaken, And I'd still be followed and take. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |