When he first came to Beaconsfield, Mr. Chesterton said, the policemen used to touch their helmets to him, until he told them to stop it.
It is easy to begin; it is pleasurably stimulating; it soon fastens itself upon you to the extent that it is exceedingly difficult to stop indulgence and it leads you straight to excess.
Fathom, finding himself descending the hill of fortune with an acquired gravitation, strove to catch at every twig, in order to stop or retard his descent.
The man who had used such bitter threats, and behaved with so much rudeness, would scarcely stop at anything.
It was only when I made stop that I could again hear the chase struggling through the thicket; but now the sounds were faint and far distant--growing still fainter as I listened.
I ain't no doctur, neyther's Bill, but I knows enough about wownds to be sartint thet you must lay still, an stop talkin.
The thoughtful trapper conjectured, and rightly as it proved, that the steed would stop there to drink.
The police ought to stop it," said Kitty, who has a profound belief in the Force.
There is not a single full-stop from start to finish.
However, we will cut out the end butt in each drive and put a stop there to turn the birds farther in.
Between Canterbury and London they stop for a while with a 'comely olde gentleman,' Fidus, who keeps bees and tells good stories.
They wish to sit in the fierce light which beats on an intellectual throne, but they are indignant when the passers-by stop to stare at them.
They are homesick when they stop at home, and are only at home when they are on the move.
Now, is he the man who got the secret, and with it is trying to stop all war?
Our friend Thompson’s card brought a sudden stop to the cheerful whistle, and it was with a somewhat troubled face that J.
The man who is trying to stop all war must have some terrific power which utterly destroys metal, causing it to change completely into some other form, and instantly disappear.
The man who is trying to stop all war must have some radio-active generator, some means of wave disturbance greater than anything we have yet attained.
Somewhere, behind those roofs, lies the laboratory of the man who is trying tostop all war.
If ‘the man’ destroys a battleship, does the machine stopand the beam of light run down the scale.
I wanted to stop in the hall outside the big office to look over my story again.
Finally the secretary thought of you and the message from the man who intended to stop all war.
He had written the story of the man who was to stop all war, only to see it killed by more important news.
Leigh and Artie scampered off, and their father was following them, when a sudden sound made him stop short.
But if you're afraid you can hold on behind just like you're doing now, and then you can stop us going faster than you like.
But Mary remembered how she had wished that day to stop at the shops and look in at the windows.
And mayn't we stop and see the puppies at the smithy on the way?
The Perrys all came to a stop when they met the other party.
The gate was to stop travellers entering the city by way of Ashley Down Road, and thus escape paying the tolls at the Zetland Road end of Gloucester Road.
It was brought to a dead stop on a steep incline, and when started again it gathered speed, so that before the summit was reached it was travelling at its normal speed--74.
He could not Stop a few Minets; but nock So hard That he brock a New Nocker on the door and then run off, we not Seen Him Since,) I.
A model of the Horfield Stop Gate may be seen at Robin Hood's Retreat near Berkeley Road, Bristol.
Benjamin Gray, the last keeper of the "Stop Gate" which stood near the Royal Oak Inn at Horfield, held the office for 30 years.
But as he had never fallen before, and as Bella knew that Durgo would stop at nothing to get the papers, which she believed existed, she began to believe that the fall was by design and not by accident.
I shall stophere so long as it pleases me to stop, and if you make yourself disagreeable I shall know what to do.
Loves me," continued Bella, with a blush; "and to marry me he would stop at nothing.
Oh, stop talking like this, and speak plainly," she interrupted wearily.
While the police were debating and searching, the Vands would be getting out of the kingdom, and we could not stop them.
He did not stop at the boundary channel, as he declared.
Stop all that confusion," roared Captain Barrington through his megaphone, which he had snatched from its place on the bridge.
Stop that, you greedy black rascal," retorted the professor, laying about him with the egg-basket.
Let's give it a shot," cried Billy, and before any one could stop him, the young reporter fired at the creature.
Very well, then we will all be out on deck at midnight," said Frank, "and if we find that the professor is really serious in his intention to go ashore in the boat we will try and stop him.
To say this, and stop there, is a fine instance of mere seeming to say something.
But if you could only get Mr. Pomeroy to stop hangin' round Nelly, it would be best of all.
The questioning and disintegrating process, once begun, did not stop here.
They stop up the stove-pipes and water-gutters with their rubbish, build nests in the windows, and under the eaves of the roofs, and have not the least reverence for any place or thing.
Wherever there is a ledge of rock to stop the coming up of vessels from the sea there is always an important town to receive what those ships bring and to distribute it over the country round about.
I was nearly half an hour out on the end of the fore yard, trying to coil away and stop down the topmast studding-sail tack and lower halyards.
Peal after peal rattled over our heads, with a sound which seemed actually to stopthe breath in the body, and the "speedy gleams" kept the whole ocean in a glare of light.
No conversation is allowed among the crew at their duty, and though they frequently do talk when aloft, or when near one another, yet they always stop when an officer is nigh.
This was sufficient to account for the leak, and for our not having been able to discover and stop it.
I accepted the old gentleman's invitation so far as to stop at Vallejo to breakfast.
We lay about a week in San Pedro, and got under weigh for San Diego, intending to stop at San Juan, as the south-easter season was nearly over, and there was little or no danger.
Directions at what gate to enter and where the carriages are to stop are always printed in the newspapers.
If two gentlemen stop to talk, they should retire to one side of the walk.
If they stop to speak, it is not obligatory to shake hands.
If the gentleman has anything to say to her, he should not stop her, but turn around and walk in her company until he has said what he has to say, when he may leave her with a bow and a lift of the hat.
It has been aptly said that if you interrupt a speaker in the middle of a sentence, you act almost as rudely as if, when walking with a companion, you were to thrust yourself before him and stop his progress.
Acknowledge an invitation to stop with a friend, or any unusual attention without delay.
In calling upon a person living at a hotel or boarding-house, it is customary to stop in the parlor and send your card to the room of the person called upon.
The three former are most appropriate, as it seems somewhat absurd to ask after a person's health, unless you stop to receive an answer.
No sooner did he feel their weight, than he began to run as fast as possible, and carried them several times round the village, as it was impossible to stop him otherwise than by obstructing his passage.
The custom of this drive is somewhat peculiar, which all follow to the very letter of the law; it is to drive the full length twice, stop in the centre opposite the fountain to salute your friends, as they pass by, and then return home.
We never take money that we do not earn stop we sent the man up in your country to reform him stop we accept the liability as our own and are sending check today for a thousand.
Stop that fidgeting, and make up your mind that the truth will serve, but the lie will condemn!
Wearied by his effort, Alexander Barbour gave himself over to another spell of coughing, and failing to stop it, retired from the room.
I knew that the men who were engaged in this work would stop at nothing; that the spies who had sought out this lonely cave would be ready to do anything in order to keep a secret.
We could stop et all right," said Martha, "ef everybody made up their minds to send them no more money.
He cannot stop Hugh from writing, neither can he forbid the postman from bringing letters to your house.
More than once on my way to the house did I stop and look eagerly around me, but I was always assured that no one watched me, and that I was utterly alone; besides, I could not have chosen a more perfect day for my investigation.
As to this infamous story that they are telling, I shall find means to stop it.
The automobile, which had only one occupant, came to a sudden stop and an argument followed.
I don't think the Doctor would want his wife to practise medicine, for reasons which I will not stop to mention.
I will not stop to think whether the urgent request for an autograph by return post, in view of the possible contingencies which might render it the last one was ever to write, is pleasing or not.
If you will stop these questions, then, I will go on with my reports of what was said and done at our meetings over the teacups.
Was it not worth our while to stop a moment before passing that old broken wagon, and see whether we could not find as much in it as Swift found in his 'Meditations on a Broomstick'?
I always take off my hat if I stop to speak to a stone-cutter at his work.
I can stop on this first page if I do not care to say anything more, and let this article stand by itself if so minded.
It is true that I had said I might stop at any moment, but after one or two numbers it seemed as if there were an informal pledge to carry the series on, as in former cases, until I had completed my dozen instalments.
No, indeed; they rebuked Mr. Herring and made him stop talking.
Why, the man who wrote those circulars would not stop at any crime to harass the government and interfere with the promotion of the war.
Abe's no fool; he knows how far he can go, an' when to stop talkin'.
He is also bitterly opposed to the administration, and we may logically suppose he will not stop in his attempts to block the government's conduct of the war.
So you're to stop short--this very minute--and rest up and take it easy and not worry.
As she stealthily followed him, she observed the man stop in the office and exchange commonplaces with one or two guests whom he knew.
While he made her stop and listen, his earnestness had overleaped that slurred manner of speech that belongs to the ignorant of culture.
In a stride he was beside her, his hand outstretched to stop her; but it was not necessary, his tone had done that, and he thrust both hands into the pockets of his hunting coat.
I'm going to tell you right now that you've got to stop that!
After their stop at the Indian camp, which Genesee explained was a berrying crowd from the Kootenai tribe, there was, of course, comment among the visitors as to the mixed specimens of humanity they had seen there.
Did he stop to ask if I was entirely a proper sort of person before he started to hunt for me that time in the Kootenai hills?
I am not jesting," she continued, as if there might be a doubt on that question; "and I wish you would stop it.
The voice had an insinuating tone, as if it would express "will you stop it?
Stop a moment," she said, just as the trail plunged from the open face of the mountain into the shadow of spruce and cedar.
There is no doubt in my mind now of the man's complicity--" "Stop it!
I stop to tell you, and say like white man, klahowya.
