76 adjectives to describe stopping

Whether it hit any one I can't positively affirm, but I heard a dull heavy sound, a kind of chug, as if it had struck against something soft, and the scream of one of the belligerents was brought to a sudden stop, by a sort of hysterical jerk, as though there had been a sudden lack of wind to carry it on.

The power was off, and the machine came to an abrupt stop.

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Fletcher had barely time to proceed thus far with his speech when an alarming interruption occurred, which put an immediate stop to his further utterance.

These articles, to the number of sixteen, were calculated to prevent the chief abuses which had prevailed in ecclesiastical affairs, and to put an effectual stop to the usurpations of the church, which, gradually stealing on, had threatened the total destruction of the civil power.

Their frequent stops seemed ludicrous.

HEADSkull flat and broad, with little stop, well filled out under the eyes.

The procession entered Millville, where a brief stop was made at the store, and then made its exit by the north road.

The day of my arrival was a hot one, and, during our temporary stop in the cars between the Relay House and Bladensburg, some pickpocket eased me of my pocket-book, containing a treasury-note for $50, about $60 in bills, and sundry papers.

" The captain, hardly able to believe his ears, came to an impressive stop in the roadway, but Miss Nugent walked on.

Whistle stop, by Maritta M. Wolff.

It was an enormous relief yesterday to get steady going without involuntary stops, but yesterday and this morning, once the sledge was stopped, it was very difficult to start againthe runners got temporarily stuck.

She stopped the car five times to tell the boys that Adam would be discharged tomorrow, and made a sixth stop at the candy shop, where a clerk brought out a chocolate ice cream with walnut sauce.

And here there was a halt, a sudden stopping inspired by admiration, so grandly did the work accomplished show forth under the sun.

Dashes needlessly inserted, or substituted for other stops more definite, are in general to be treated as errors in punctuation; as, "Here Greece stands by itself as opposed to the other nations of antiquityShe was none of the other nationsShe was more polished than they.

A line in Lycidas says: "He touched the tender stops of various quills," and this may be said of Milton.

"The principal stops are the following: The Comma (,) the semicolon (;) the colon (:) the period, or fall stop (.)

We have found it necessary to fix the rate of money at interest, and the rate of labour in several cases, and if we do not in this case, what will be the consequence?a second embargo on commerce, and, perhaps, a total stop to all military preparations.

It begins thus: Offspring of Love divine, Humanity! To whom, his eldest born, th' Eternal gave Dominion o'er the heart; and taught to touch Its varied stops in sweetest unison; And strike the string that from a kindred breast Responsive vibrates!

She fell to coaxing the heap in the grass to tell her that he forgave herto open his eyesto stop bloodying her dressto come to luncheon...

The stops so formidable at first became as stars in the dark....

Put the wine into a cask, and if, after that, it ferments, rack it off into another cask, and in a fortnight stop it down.

First there was the runaway, which I certainly did not expect, and then came the sudden stopa stop most fortunate for us, I take it," and he glanced, not without a shudder, in the direction of the gulch where the dead horse lay.

Fodder receiving a blow behind, starts forwardthen stops, kicking up violently.

It should be provided with a rich soil, and, as the flowers are produced upon the lateral shoots, it requires frequent stopping.

76 adjectives to describe  stopping