4322 examples of halted in sentences

One party of the rioters, with Maillard and another ruffian named Jourdan, the chief of the Coupe-têtes, at their head, had started two hours before, bearing aloft in triumph the heads of the mangled Body-guards, and combining such hideous mockery with their barbarity that they halted at Sèvres to compel a barber to dress the hair on the lifeless skulls.

The carriage halted while M. Valory was making the necessary inquiries; and, while it was standing still, Drouet rode up and forbade the postilions to proceed.

Carl had halted on the threshold at hearing these words, and his countenance had changed; but it was only for a second.

Just after La Buissière we came to a tiny village named Neuville and halted while the local Jack-of-all- trades mended for us an invalided tire on a bicycle.

He was the only soldier of any army, except the Belgian, we had seen so far, and we halted our car and watched him until he disappeared.

Still without being halted or delayed we went briskly on.

If an officer, returning from a small sortie into other streets, checked up to ask the way to rejoin his command, a dozen eager arms waved in chorus to point out the proper direction, and a babble of solicitous voices arose from the group about his halted horse.

In a tree-edged, grass-plotted boulevard at the edge of the Bois, toward Tervueren, cavalry had halted.

Just as we were filing out into the dark, Sergeant Rosenthal, who was also going along, halted us and reminded us all and severally that we were not prisoners, but still guests; and that, though we were to march with the prisoners to the station, we were to go in line with the guards; and if any prisoner sought to escape it was hoped that we would aid in recapturing the runaway.

About sunset we halted and tethered our horses, while the Arabs unloaded the provisions from the camels and prepared a fire out of the dry scrub, for at sunset the heat of the desert departs from it suddenly, like a bird.

And they all halted before Leothric in the cavernous hall, and the camel bells clanged and stopped.

And about some twenty steps up the stairs was the old Captain Hisgins with a drawn sword in his hand where he had halted, just below the last hoof sound.

Abruptly the great sounds ceased and I knew in a sort of sick fashion that the thing had halted opposite to the door of the girl's bedroom.

The Professor started a lengthy discourse on sacrificial altars the moment we halted, ranging from Stonehenge to Toluca in search of comparisons, but we were too tired to give it much attention.

Here when the cavalry had halted, as if at the end of their journey, it is announced to Hannibal, wondering what obstructed the march that the rock was impassable.

Both armies halted, and were preparing themselves for battle.

" The procession halted, while the older policeman gazed fascinated at the official document.

But his sister halted him with a little affectionate gesture "Mr. Carroll is right, Garry: he must know these things."

On Veronica's right, as the carriage halted, was the public fountain.

The surprise was mutual, and each halted aghast.

Here his worshipers halted in wonderment, but he kept on to the corner and out of sight.

" He halted againincredulous, but she waved him past the door where a man appeared to help him into his coat.

Before this house he halted in surprise: At once I rose, and, as beseemed his rank, Advanced respectfully to greet the lord To whom the Emperor delegates his power, As judge supreme within our Canton here.

But say, Have you come here direct from Flüelen, And have you noticed nothing on your way, Before you halted at my door? STAUFFACHER (sits down).

Till at the shaggy dell they halted where The Müta flows through its luxuriant meads.

4322 examples of  halted  in sentences