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Example sentences for "stager"

Lexicographically close words:
stage; stagecoach; stagecoaches; stagecraft; staged; stagers; stages; stagey; stagge; stagger
  1. There, also, lived Mr. Patrick Black, a fine old stager even at the time we speak of.

  2. Every old stager must recollect Peter Tyrer, the coach-builder, and keeper of hackney coaches.

  3. General Stager warmly favored such a consolidation on equitable terms and set to work vigorously to promote it.

  4. General Stager is a man with a host of friends and without, we believe, one enemy.

  5. General Stager assumed control of the Central, which covered the field with which he had so long been identified, and which left him with his headquarters in the home he had for years occupied, in Cleveland.

  6. Whilst the Western Union Telegraph Company has been developing from its one wire between Buffalo and Louisville into its present giant proportions, General Stager has had a busy life.

  7. In October, 1846, General Stager changed his location from the compositor's case to the telegraph operator's desk, commencing work as an operator in Philadelphia.

  8. When General McClellan was summoned to Washington to take command of the Army of the Potomac, General Stager was called by him to organize the military telegraph of that department.

  9. A may be better than B to-day; but A may be an old stager hardened in certain faults, and of whom no hope can now be entertained that he will suddenly reform.

  10. The late General Anson Stager was a House operator at one time.

  11. A story is told of the late General Stager that at one time he was on a train that was wrecked at some distance from any station.

  12. No boy would get as excited as that about kissing an old stager like me.

  13. You take the word of an old stager like me and you won't go far--" The door opened.

  14. I wasn't the steady old stager I am now, Bunny; my analysis was a confession in itself.

  15. At Faulds Brow sports, when a hale hearty stager of more than three-score-and-ten years, he challenged to wrestle any man in England of his own age.

  16. My brother interposed some objections, which General Stager thoughtfully considered, and, after admonishing me of the danger in my case, he again proffered service in the telegraph department.

  17. The day following, before I could get an opportunity to again see General Stager in regard to his proposal, or take any action myself, Mr. Covode sent for me.

  18. General Stager laughed heartily at my recital of these events.

  19. I was once fishing with General Phil Sheridan and General Anson Stager for black-bass on a lake near Oconomowoc.

  20. Takes an old stager who never had your dude Service suits on his back to know the secrets of these hills, Miss Eleanor.

  21. My dear child, do you think you need to tell an old stager that?

  22. The world, seen from so great a distance, and from within so sweet a nest, frightened me, old stager that I am.

  23. It was the first time that Verrian had come down late, and it was his novel experience to find himself in charge of Mrs. Stager at breakfast, instead of the butler and the butler's man, who had hitherto served him at the earlier hour.

  24. Mrs. Stager would not at first commit herself further than to say in bringing him the butter, "She's just up from a long fit of sickness.

  25. Mrs. Stager lowered her voice in an octave of deeper confidentiability.

  26. Mrs. Stager modestly referred the question to him by her silence.

  27. Verrian was roused from the muse he found he had fallen into by hearing Mrs. Stager ask, "Won't you have some more coffee?

  28. Through convolutions of smoke from his tiny pipe, the old stager regarded the young star of journalism with a quaint and placid affection.

  29. The old stager turned round and stared at the younger politician.

  30. The young men said it was because no old stager who knew the way of pulling the wires would come forward and put the club in the proper groove.

  31. To the nervous novice he is a kind of quiet support, to the old stager he is as a picture unto the eye and as music unto the ear.

  32. Being an old stager of several years' standing myself, I admire him professionally.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.