What a man to fight England to a standstill after many a wary, difficult retreat and dearly fought battle-field!
Miss Lorne came to an instant standstill and clutched her belongings closer to her with a shake and a quiver; and a swift prickle of goose-flesh ran round her shoulders and up and down the backs of her hands.
Suddenly, from where I sat, I heard the whirr of an approaching car which came to a standstill before the inn.
After the ship had come to a standstill in her new position very heavy pressure was set up.
It looked at one stage as if the ship was to be made the plaything of successive floes, and I was relieved when she came to a standstill with a large piece of our old "dock" under the starboard bilge.
A may kiss my missus, a reckon,' said Daniel, coming to a standstill as he passed near her.
They came to a standstillfrom some slight obstacle at the corner of a street.
She circled slowly round and came noiselessly to the ground, and with the mechanics running by her side, and her engines now scarcely audible, came slowly into the shed and to a standstill by the side of the platform.
The automobile came to a standstill before a large electrically illuminated time chart.
Also, for a whole year, active progressive work was at a standstill while the pile tests were going on.
The "unavoidable delays" included in this table do not embrace the periods during which the work was at complete or partial standstill due to experiments and observations, shortage of iron due to change of design, and holidays.
Pushing my way round the chairs, I came to a standstill before the table and confronted my father, who sat in the furthest corner with a book upon his knee as usual.
Suddenly Sheilah brought her pony to a standstill and began to sniff the wind.
The Bosphorus had come to a standstill at the opening of her berth, waiting for the tugs to turn her in.
Two minutes later an automobile, consisting chiefly of a chassis, with a single wooden seat lashed to the frame, slid to a standstill outside the gates of Red Gables.
They crossed the field diagonally, and came to a standstill at a spot marked by a tiny flag.
Illustration: He came to a standstill by the side of the boy.
He came to a standstill and took her hands in his.
He came to a standstill by the side of the boy, and stood there watching him for several moments, with a certain faintly amused curiosity shining out of his somewhat supercilious gray eyes.
It was difficult for them to keep up with us on the flat ice, so quickly did we go; but when we came to pressure-ridges we were brought to a standstill and the sledges had to be helped over.
The worst of it all, though, was that when we finally came to a standstill we had been on the move so long that it was too late to wind up our watches.
This culminated in a perfect reign of terror in December, 1898, when they actually succeeded in bringing the railway works to a complete standstill for about three weeks.
On leaving my tent one morning when work was at a standstill owing to the rain, I noticed a great herd of zebra about a couple of miles away on the north side of the railway.
It is impossible to say whether the statement of a complete standstill has to be qualified.
Summary In the most pronounced stupor we have evidently a more or less complete standstill in thinking processes.
The brougham had come to a standstill in front of a house in Downing Street.
Somerfield came to a standstill in the middle of the room, with a cup of tea in one hand and a plate of ham in the other.
When he opened them again, they had come to a standstill underneath a red lamp.
The motor car came to a standstill before him, and the man who was driving it sprang to the ground.
We've just got news and we thought we would let you know about it," cried Ada Waltham, as the runabout came to a standstill close to the other automobiles.
But the summons was unnecessary, for their approach had been eagerly looked for by Grace, and hardly had the machine come to a standstill when she flew out of the farmhouse to meet them.
I hastened to obey the order as fast as I could, but I saw on approaching that though all was at a standstill till I came up, neither the King of Navarre nor M.
And grasping the bridle of her horse, pulled in his own, and drew both animals to a standstill at the side of the road.
The vehicle took a quick turn, lurched dangerously in its top-heavy pomp, and, almost upsetting, came to a standstill nearly opposite the boy.
Mrs. Carmyle applied the brakes; and the car, bumping uncomfortably, came to a standstill at the side of the road, under the lee of a pine wood.
Presently it slid to a standstill beside the stranded car, and its occupants leaped eagerly forth.
On the two flanks the Anglo-Austrian army was brought to a standstill opposite the fortified villages of Blenheim and Oberglau, and could advance no further.
After struggling through brook and bog, the English came to a standstill before the steady line of spears.
But he made no attempt to answer her, and at that moment the coachman, to whom the little lady had already signalled, brought the carriage to a standstill beside them.
Whatever else in Paris might have been at a standstill lately, the fencing academy had flourished as never hitherto.
A dozen feet or so away he jerked his horse to a standstill and caught his breath with an odd whistling sound.
He turned the horse out, intending to ride around it, but a couple of minutes later jerked him to a standstill and sat motionless in the saddle, eyes narrowing with a sudden, keen surprise.
Then, as their advance opened up a fresh sweep of country, Lynch jerked his mount to a standstill with a suddenness that raised a cloud of dust about them.
He paused, coming to a standstill in the middle of the room, to see what effect his words had had on Ransom.
It came to a standstill in the middle distance, and there it had been planned that Tibby should meet her, and drive her, and a tea-basket, up to join them.
Beyond these tumuli habitations thickened, and the train came to a standstillin a tangle that was almost a town.
I was brought to a standstill by a mound of earth which completely blocked the way.
I was brought to a standstill at the sight of a mass of wreckage near the river.
We came to a standstill on the outer lip of a huge crater.
Another jamming on of brakes brought us to a standstill at a cross-roads; another huge mine-crater was in front of us and it was most difficult to see until we were well upon it.
