I forget how the proverb runs," he observed; "of something about 'better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is.
He was just approaching the stalled car that stood at the side of the road.
You see, they're of a sort of migrating gypsy breed, and get as uneasy as a fish out of water when stalled for any length of time.
During a recent heavy snowstorm, two trucks driven by young women were sliding along a winding road carrying supplies to a hut from a depot when they came upon a big French lorry stalled in a ditch.
The French soldier in charge was tinkering with the engine, having stalled it while trying to pull into the road again.
Then one day a yoke of commissary oxen, starved into a condition of hopeless anemia, became stalled in the mud near our camp.
Privatization of government-owned industries remains stalledand continues to generate political debate; populist pressure from within the UPA government and from its Left Front allies continues to restrain needed initiatives.
He lighteth on a company of Canting Beggars, and is stalled one of their society, is married to a Doxy, with the manner of their wedding.
It is the shrew who succeeds in giving the males dependent on herstalled oxen and such like dainties to eat.
He was of opinion that a peaceful dinner of herbs is better than a stalled ox and contention therewith.
Mrs Clay in bewilderment, for she did not recognise the allusion to the verse in Proverbs: 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
You'd better read your Bible again, and you'll see that stalled oxen is what we eat, not what we are.
When my lord and lady are so engaged I prefer not to call at their mansion, Number 1000 in Grosvenor Square, but to partake of a dinner of herbs rather than of that stalled ox which their cook is roasting whole.
And if he mete any begger, whether he be sturdye or impotent, he wyll demaund of him, whether euer he was stalled to the roge or no.
If he saye he was, he wyll know of whom, and his name that stalled hym.
As they leapt they were not helping to pull the chariot, the yoke-mates pulled it over the stalled axles.
Each saw the stalled wheel in front of him, neither tried to dodge.
The long series of stalled wagons, with their hamstrung or stalled cattle and empty cages extended to the foot of the crag and beyond it.
Even so any other chariot would have stopped dead when its wheels hit the axles of the stalled chariots, for it was plain that his wheels interlocked with the wheels of the stalled chariots and hit the axles.
We passed scores of stalled wagons, every cage empty, two hamstrung oxen or mules or even horses lying in agony before each wagon, the rest of the cattle either loosed and gone or held fast by the stalled wagons behind them.
From there a splendid view could undoubtedly be obtained, not only of the stalled train and the burning bridge, but also of the Federal cavalrymen who were keeping out of sight among the small arroyos along the hillside.
Meanwhile they were approaching the big smoke that kept rising ahead, and which must mean a burning bridge on the railroad, and perhaps a stalled train into the bargain.
The engine belonging to the stalled train was finally fixed, so that it could again draw the long line of cars.
For some time the battle at the stalledtrain continued, until hundreds of shots had been fired on either side and some seven or more rebels had been ministered to by the young field surgeons.
There was also a train stalled on the side near them, with its engine headed toward Juarez.
He moved carefully so that he might not draw attention to the spot; and his motive was more to take a peep at the stalled train than any desire to find out what the enemy might be doing.
Then Rob waved them good-bye, and turned as though to take one last look over the country beyond, which was hidden from the sight of the boys at the stalled train.
Better a dinner of herbs with contentment than a stalled ox and trouble on the side," misquoted Frank.
Now Frank suddenly caught it up again and focused it almost at once on the stalled motor boat.
The chauffeur declares he went after you, and spent all night in a cemetery--looking for the party he had left stalled there.
Cora, and without doing more than unclasping the leather belt that confined her waist, she struck out boldly toward a point considerably farther out than the spot where the stalled car stood in the water.
Entering the town, we proceeded, winding our way among pack trains and stalled motor trucks, to the town square.
He hitched his horses to the front of the stalled car, and it was soon pulled up on higher ground where Jim could crawl under and see what was wrong with the works.
So they all waited patiently for the rain to cease, but the storm grew worse, while the clouds seemed to fairly empty themselves right over the stalled cars.
And no telling how long we'll be stalled here," added Roger.
The train had been stalled some hours along the road, but had finally reached the Grand Central Terminal of the metropolis.
Then Tom proceeded to where Mr. Damon had left his stalled automobile.
Then you take her for a ride in your motor-boat, and, lastly, you come to her relief when she is stalled in the middle of the lake.
They had been stalled in the gorge, and a provost guard was hurrying the laggard teamsters.
Economic reform is stalled in many instances by political infighting and corruption at all levels of government.
However, the former Communists were a strong opposition that stalled additional restructuring and made implementation difficult.
Ben backed Beulah across the divider behind the stalled carrier to give them protection while they tried to assist the stalled vehicle.
Clay eased the patrol car around the stalled vehicle and then backed slow into position, guided by Martin's radioed instructions.
Beulah's well-equipped machine shop stock room produced a matching pin and it was merely a matter of lifting the stalled carrier and driving it into place in the track assembly.
A stalled car in the middle of the high-speed lane was an invitation to disaster.
The patrol car slowed and the headlight picked up the stalled vehicle a mile ahead.
We picked up some kids in a stalled heap on the blue at Marker 382 and we've got them in tow now," Ben said.
It became a serious problem to get stalled in the mountains late in the day; assistance was not always at hand--indeed the settlements were many miles apart in the early days.
We can hardly imagine what it meant to get stalledon one of the old "hog wallow" roads on the frontier.
When your machine went down in flames near Cambrai, you passed so close to me that I stalled my Fokker to let you pass, and I saw the smile upon your lips that day as you looked into the face of death.
Spitzer, as he also opened out to avert the threatened collision, then pulled over the controls, stalled his machine, and attempted a vertical climb.
Mr. Ringold went back to the stalled train to tell the few actors and actresses, whom he had brought from New York with him, that no dramas would be taken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
