He stayed my hand, waved it back, folded his arms, as if nothing unusual had occurred, and questioned me.

Instead the weather grew still and cold and the girls were glad to stay indoors and work on their lessons or on things they were making for Christmas gifts.

"Ma, when are you going to come and stay a long time with us?"

"Stay yet a moment, and console our mamma," he said with a steady countenance, "only the time to get ourselves booted, and my brother and I will ride with you a little way, George." George Warrington had already ordered his horses.

So they came to the cottage, and here, for a while, instinctively stayed their steps.

Is there any one who wishes to stay always just where he is to-day?

The truth is, he was in a hurry, and something more than a hat or a basket was required to stay his progress towards home.

I'm going to stay awake the rest of my life.

Hereditary mansions, too ancient and magnificent to be deserted, such as Norfolk House, Spencer House and Lansdowne House, stayed the westward course of aristocracy at St. James's Square and Street, Piccadilly, and Mayfair; but the general tide of fashion has swept far beyond.

Each man had brought with him a good store of cold meat and a bottle of stout March beer to stay his stomach till the homecoming.

" "If they only stay a couple o' nights at Anvik," said Potts, with gloomy foreboding, "they could get back here inside a week.

Do you think I would let the child stay an hour under his roof, or stay here myself, if I believed one word of all those wicked stories the papers are publishing?

"Ride on, sirs, and bid our careful warden stay awhile the execution of this traitorous friar.

LAMIAT ALAJEM No kind supporting hand I meet, But Fortitude shall stay my feet; No borrow'd splendors round me shine, But Virtue's lustre all is mine; A Fame unsullied still I boast, Obscur'd, conceal'd, but never lost The same bright orb that led the day Pours from the West his mellow'd ray.

In 1858 the gravity of the situation caused the French Academy of Sciences to appoint Commissioners, of whom a distinguished naturalist, M. de Quatrefages, was one, to inquire into the nature of this disease, and, if possible, to devise some means of staying the plague.

Meantime, stay thou and make our banquet ready.

Then did these thirty (and with them I) shoot arrows amain on Pertolepe's vanguard from every place of vantage hereabouts, and met them with right lusty hand-strokes and stayed thus their advance until of the thirty there none remained alive save seven (and of these, I).

Neither fear nor pity shall stay our arm before it has completely brought our enemies to the ground."

" "Couldn't we persuade you to stay a few minutes with us, and join us in a whisky-and-soda?"

" Now my child will not miss The true moral of this Little story of anger and strife; For a word spoken soft Will turn enemies oft Into friends that will stay friends for life.

" Mrs. Hemans, after staying a fortnight at Rydal Mount, took a little cottage called Dove's Nest near the lake.

"Now have you had enough?" demanded Tom, while the crowd marveled at his quickness and staying powers.

Has law no power to stay the erasing pen, and tear off the scrawled label that covers up the IMAGE OF GOD?

"Did thee ever stay an old bachelor any length of time?

Moreover, "because ye trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon; therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.