He could tell exactly how the minutes were passing, he knew what to listen for, and could catch the distant sound of the stable clock striking the quarters.
Of course, the stable door was locked after the horse was gone, and we had a night-watchman at Fording for some time; but little stir was made, and I do not believe your grandfather ever put the matter in the hands of the police.
Subsidence will be in excess, but between subsiding tracts lateral thrust may suffice to push upward intervening more solid and stable ground; but no solution of the problem yet proposed is wholly satisfactory.
There is nothing more striking in geography than the perfection of the adjustment of a great river system to its valleys when the land has remained stable for a very lengthened period.
After many vicissitudes of this kind, the terrestrial forces calmed down, and a morestable condition of things was established.
It may seem strange that land should be less stable than water.
The absorption of the prebends afforded for the first time a more stable revenue, although these too were variable.
There was no false alarm, for the thatch was blazing so furiously, that at a glance the lookers-on saw that the stable and the cart lodge adjoining were doomed.
The half-burned roof of the farm-house, the three smoking heaps where the three stacks had stood, and the stable roofless and blackened, while the place all about the house was muddy with the water and trampling.
Yes; but the stable caught fire from the stacks," said Dick.
I told thestable keeper I was going to Norwalk, but it was so cold he would not hire his horses.
On the evening of the same day Allen went to Crowe's livery stable and hired a horse and a heavy express wagon.
Recalling that this was a rural region, very stable in its population and valuation, we see that it would be least affected by financial distress.
The improvement of land is much more stable and less likely to sudden and great changes than is the population.
This place is now converted into a stable for horses and camels!
In the background stood a large and lofty stable of brickwork, which might have belonged to a great European inn.
The impression is not that of gray antiquity, but of stable and time-honored gentility, still as vital as ever.
He wouldn't show himself under any circumstances unless we called him, and from the loft of the stable he can see all that is going on.
After much abuse Tony runs away and gets a job as stable boy in a country hotel.
While they were speaking, Bob drove out of the stable behind a pair of small gray horses, which were so spirited that their driver could pay no attention to anything but them.
They began the search by making inquiries in town, of any one whom they met, and by going to each stable or even barn, looking in each place large enough to shelter the team; but without seeing any signs of it whatever.
Crippled as you are, you can be of no service here; therefore, if you will go there and get them, and then drive them to some stable in town, I will pay you well for your trouble.
They have started for thestable again," continued Bob.
Boise Bill drove the pair from the stable finally, just as a powerful machine arrived and took a place in the outer circle.
It seemed as if they would batter his roof in, and they came so thick that the stable and corral could be seen only indistinctly.
Riding a horse from the livery stable and accompanied by Pinkey driving two pack-horses ahead of him, Wallie left the Prouty House shortly after noon, followed by comments of a jocular nature from the bystanders.
Here were not only the means of survival but resources for some stable home life.
Quantities of fragrant rose-coloured sawdust, used for stable litter, were lying about.
Here stood Mrs. Meeker, a hatchet in her hand, trying to pry open the stable door.
The stable door gave with a wrench and swung open.
Engrossed in their task neither answered her, and she moved round the corner of the stable to better see the debris of the fallen wall.
Her first point of call was Crowley's livery stable where she asked for a carriage.
Every other soul in the place has run off, and I can't get the stable door open.
The Californians were in reality gratified by the prospect of American success in their territory, for they believed that it would secure a stable and progressive government, under which, that beautiful region would be gradually developed.
He fetched a whip, which was hanging on the stable door, and climbed over the farthest part of the garden fence to waylay the intruders.
The servant was leaning against the stable door, chewing his black beard, and leering at him viciously.
In a short time they came galloping from the stable at the rear of the hotel, and pulled up, facing the cowman.
They will ride their ponies around from thestable and meet you in front of the house.
That stableought to know something, if knowledge is to be found anywhere," said Mrs. Packletide hopefully.
Sir Wilfrid had had rather a trying time with the stable cat and subsequently with the coachman.
It was possible, he replied, that he might have initiated his intimate friend the stable puss into his new accomplishment, but it was unlikely that his teaching could have taken a wider range as yet.
Tobermory had caught a glimpse of the big yellow Tom from the Rectory working his way through the shrubbery towards the stable wing.
We can put some strychnine in the scraps he always gets at dinner-time," said Sir Wilfrid, "and I will go and drown the stable cat myself.
But for him school had no charms; his school was the cool stalls in the big livery stable near at hand; the arena of his pursuits its sawdust floor; the height of his ambition, to be a horseman.
I'm goin' down to McCarthy's stable and see if I kin git some horses to exercise.
They were out in the stable yard one evening and she was "training" him as she called it.
And on any way I shall stop in and tell the stable boy not to let any horses go out in case any one wants to get away before the Count comes home.
There was a stable economy, and nobody lacked for the essentials.
The substance and its properties were physically and chemicallystable over a temperature range of hundreds of degrees.
A practical dielectric has to be stable in every way, at least over the range of conditions you intend to use it in.
Not finding them in the stable, as they had expected, they made themselves amends for their disappointment by stabbing all the sheep in the stable and then letting them loose.
The poor girl she had serv'd with them Some half-a-year, or more, When she was found hung up one day Stiff as a corpse and cold as clay Behind that stable door!
All weathers and all hours She crossed the hill, as hardy as her beasts, Bearing the wind and rain and winter frosts, And if she did not reach her home at night She laid her down in the stable with her asses And slept as sound as they did.
The walls alone remain; It was a stable then, but now Its mossy roof has fallen through All rotted by the rain.
After a few months, Star became so well accustomed to his young mistress, that he would walk by himself from the stable door, when the groom had buckled on the saddle, to the bottom of the stone steps where she used to mount.
When she reached the door, she saw a gentleman mounted on a handsome gray horse, near the stable door, talking to Leo.
The little girl seldom went out to the stable without asking the cook for a piece of bread for Star.
Many horses will not stay a moment in the stable by themselves, without discovering a great deal of impatience.
The gentleman used frequently to call at the stable for the greyhound to accompany him in his walks.
To gratify her, he walked to the stable to see the operation repeated.
Minnie was eager to exhibit her pony, and invited her uncle to the stable for that purpose.
During their stay, he got out of the stable one night, and was found next day pasturing among the mosses where he had been bred.
A gentleman in Bristol had a greyhound which slept in the stable along with a fine hunter about five years of age.
On one occasion a pony leaped out of a stable door through which manure was thrown, after company which was in the barn yard.
He could never be driven past his own stable; and at the sound of the coming coach, he would turn out, of his own accord, into the stable yard.
The dog was always kept in the stable at night, and universally lay beside the horse.
After dinner, Minnie, in company with her mother and their visitors, went to the stable to try the effect of music on her favorite.
The animal had been kept in a stable for a long time, but was at last turned into a field, where there was a pump, well supplied with water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
