We doubt not that some of our old stagers yet retain many of them among their treasures and curiosities.
What a different place the town is now from what it was when first we old stagers knew it, and were acquainted with every face which flitted through its streets!
Our old stagers must also recollect the Liverpool Hunt of those days, famous, far and wide, for its good riders, good horses, and good dogs.
There are, we trust, other old stagers left who will join us in saying, “Peace to the memory of old Abraham Lowe.
We defy the young stagersof to-day to produce his match out of their ranks.
There must be many old stagers still surviving amongst us who can remember the two managers of the Theatre Royal, Messrs.
Squire Watkins, as many of our old stagerswill recollect, was a Tory, if ever there was one in the world.
It seemed that, with Stagers and others, he had formed a band of counterfeiters in the West, where he had thus acquired a fortune so considerable that I was amazed at his having allowed his passions to seduce him into unprofitable crime.
Stagers nodded to him and grinned at me, and we sat down together.
In his agony he unfortunately thought of me, and had bribed Stagers largely in order that he might be induced to find me.
I replied, that I had my regular business, that I preferred he should get some one else, and pretty generally made Mr. Stagersconscious that I had had enough of him.
I would give Stagers a scare anyhow; charge him with theft,--anything but get mixed up with his kind again.
When the narration had reached this stage, and I had been made fully to understand that I was now and hereafter under the sharp eye of Stagers and his friends, that, in a word, escape was out of the question, I turned on my tormentor.
This time, for a wonder, Stagers allowed me to leave unaccompanied.
The old stagers acquire a knack of talking without moving their lips, so that the words just reach the man in front or behind.
I suppose the miserable passengers in that black ferry-boat to Hades are too full of care to indulge in such trifling, and only wanton larrikins and oldstagers employ their pencils in illustrating the planks.
About three weeks ago, he threatened to fetch the police on me for one or two little things Stagers and I done together.
A few months later, File himself disappeared, and Stagers found his way into the Penitentiary.
Stagers and another knows it; and it would n't be very safe for you to split, besides not making nothing out of it; but what I say is this.
What a splendid fortune to leave to two pals, though the two oldstagers would be sent back to the galleys within a few days!
Old stagerswho remembered the shrunken, diminutive form of Alexander H.
Old stagers have detected in him a striking personal resemblance to that sturdy New York Democrat of a former generation, William L.
Very well; he's no good, anyhow; he's better out of the way.
My fears were somewhat quieted that evening when Stagers and the wolf appeared with the remainder of the money, and I learned that Mrs. File had fled from her home and, as File thought likely, from the city also.
Stagers and another knows it; and it wouldn't be very safe for you to split, besides not making nothing out of it.
The day but one before the execution Stagers informed me that File had the pills, which he, Stagers, had contrived to give him.
I would give Stagers a scare, charge him with theft--anything but get mixed up with his kind again.
I replied that I had my regular business, that I preferred he should get some one else, and pretty generally made Mr. Stagers aware that I had had enough of him.
Stagers and I were both disguised as clergymen, and were quite freely admitted to the condemned man's cell.
The car I was on instantly lost speed, and there on the other platform, a hundred feet away, was Stagers shaking his fist at me.
Stagers knew as much about medicine as a pig knows about the opera.
My friendStagers had some absurd misgivings lest Mr. File's neck might be broken by the fall; but as to this I was able to reassure him upon the best scientific authority.
But it was all with quite good temper on both sides: I think both of us were too old stagers to take offence.
Old Tom was good enough to give me his friendship from the very first moment I came to St. Andrews, prompted thereto, as I think, largely by a comment that one or two of the old stagers made to him that my style was not unlike young Tommy's.
The horses, which were old stagers and knew the words of command far better than their riders, started at the beginning of the note; and before the call had well ended the brisk impressive 'Halt!
The men of the modern school are very much like other people; but the old stagers can still find some of their number who are as richly comical as Mr. Vincent Crummies himself.
The old stagers know the easy places and give them a natural preference.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
