A long conversation ensued about old times, while Slingsby was regaled with the best cheer that the farm-house afforded; for he was hungry as well as Wayworn, and had the keen appetite of a poor pedestrian.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
As you stand on the hill above his house, and the vision ranges over the gentle outlines of King's Valley, dotted with farms and lined with fences, it is but the noble forms of the distant mountains that could identify the scene with that which he scanned with Wayworn eye as he halted his weary oxen after his six months' journey from distant Illinois.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
13, 1818.-The broad way seems more and more crowded, while the road to Zion is thinly scattered with poor Wayworn travellers; each, or nearly so, of the former living as if there were to be no hereafter, and earth was to be their eternal home.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley