In the seventeenth century this mode of hunting upon a large scale, by stalling the deerthis mimic warwas common in Scotland.

Mr. Neelands leaned against a box-stall as Miss Morrison passed out.

Just sort of mopin' around the stall.

"Then you agree with me, it would save us all a heap of trouble to let him have them without any more stalling?"

He had not one system of attention to females in the drawing-room, and another in the shop, or at the stall.

Martin B, in this way, by daily fragments, got through two volumes of Clarissa, when the stall-keeper damped his laudable ambition, by asking him (it was in his younger days) whether he meant to purchase the work.

I saw a boy with eager eye Open a book upon a stall, And read, as he'd devour it all; Which when the stall-man did espy, Soon to the boy I heard him call, "You, Sir, you never buy a book, Therefore in one you shall not look.

I saw a boy with eager eye Open a book upon a stall, And read, as he'd devour it all; Which when the stall-man did espy, Soon to the boy I heard him call, "You, Sir, you never buy a book, Therefore in one you shall not look.

I digress into Soho, to explore a book-stall.

For the first time since setting out in the morning I felt hungry, and bought a pennyworth of apples at a little stall kept by an old woman, and a bottle of ginger-beer.

General Stall on Artillery.

His ambush is a shop-stall, or close lane, and his assault is cowardly at your back.

"Tell him to quit stalling," said a prosecutor to Vanderveer, when Roberts left the witness stand.

Joe laughed, stalling.

On the way, he noticed two dead bodies lying at the mouth of a small alley, and hastening past, was stopped at the entrance to Cornhill by a butcher's apprentice, who was wheeling away the body of an old man, who had just died while purchasing meat at a stall at Stock's Market.

My father, as you recollect, was a bookseller, and had long been in the habit of attending Lichfield market, and opening a stall for the sale of his books during that day.

Confined to his bed by indisposition, he requested me, this time fifty years ago, to visit the market, and attend the stall in his place.

To do away the sin of this disobedience, I this day went in a post-chaise to Lichfield, and going into the market at the time of high business, uncovered my head, and stood with it bare an hour before the stall which my father had formerly used, exposed to the sneers of the standers-by and the inclemency of the weathera penance by which I hope I have propitiated Heaven for this only instance, I believe, of contumacy towards my father.

But hire us some fair chamber for the night, And stalling for the horses, and return With victual for these men, and let us know.

Their time for stalling in the morning (their morning being the beginning of the night,) was chosen when the light was least injurious to the eyes; for though the sun shone upon them during the whole period, and there was no darkness, yet when that luminary was lowest in the horizon, the reflection from the bright white surface of snow was more endurable.

Enclosed within this narrow stall, Lies one who was a friend to awl; He saved bad souls from getting worse, But dn'd his own without remorse; And tho' a drunken life he pass'd, Yet say'd his soul, by mending at the last!

"What's she stalling forwith that face?"

But while reconciliation was trembling in the air, while each was, in a measure, stalling it off, so that they might the more voluptuously and sentimentally enjoy it when it came, they were permanently interrupted by a twenty-minute phone call for Betty from a garrulous aunt who lived in the country.

Like Francis I., he was rash and reckless in his resolves and enterprises, but without having the promptness, the fertility, and the suppleness of mind which Francis I. displayed in getting out of the awkward positions in which he had placed himself, and in stalling off or mitigating the consequences of them.

Two or three times, one of the mares fell in the drifts, and nothing but the courage bred into them in the blue-grass fields of Kentucky saved us from stalling out in that fearful moving flood of wind and frost and snow.