What is "led off"

Usage examples of "led off".

For when I had been led off to sacrifice, she spoke to the cacique, her lord, bringing it to his mind that, by common report Montezuma, the Emperor of Anahuac, was disturbed as to the Teules or Spaniards, and desired much to see one.

Halfway to the end in either direction were archways that led off opposite to the courtyard, perhaps to larger suites than hers.

Then he had been drawn down a lane that led off from the village street toward the channel cliffs, and had come to the end of things to the precipice and the abyss where all the village and all the world fell abruptly into the unechoing emptiness of infinity, and where even the sky ahead was empty and unit by the crumbling moon and the peering stars.

The rocketeers led off, and at closer range fired rockets into the motionless targets.

The rest of the detachment he'd led off with their wagons and loot, to rejoin their own company.

Having refused to give his parole, Azak had been led off to a dungeon somewhere.

Daulo had looked quietly horrified as he'd been led off for his interrogation.

The room was the size of his bedroom, yet seemed bigger because three more tunnels led off in different directions.

He led off, dropping to all fours so his legs folded up like a grasshopper’.

But it has taken one particular murder to crystalise the country's fears, encapsulate the concern and encourage people to ask aloud what kind of nation are we becoming: the brutal abduction of two-year-old James Bulger, who was led off by two other children.

Then he had been drawn down a lane that led off from the village street toward the channel cliffs, and had come to the end of things to the precipice and the abyss where all the village and all the world fell abruptly into the unechoing emptiness of infinity, and where even the sky ahead was empty and unlit by the crumbling moon and the peering stars.

Then he had been drawn down a lane that led off from the village street toward the channel cliffs, and had come to the end of things—.

But here he was being led off the tug by Nemoto, the junior researcher who’.

Broken and heavily pitted, it led off ahead, vanishing in the blackness only a few feet away.

He used it to light another, then led off down the stairway to the cellar level, the others following.