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

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

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

Joe laughed, stalling.

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.

When they alighted at the theatre Marmaduke payed the cabman, and Conolly took advantage of this to enter the theatre and purchase two stall tickets, an arrangement which Lind, suddenly recollecting his new friend's position, disapproved of, but found it useless to protest against.

I could have got you a stall, although I suppose you would have preferred to throw away your money like a fool.

The liquid-eyed rascal with the priceless amber necklace then led away the escort, Ahmed included, to some place where they could stall the horses, andside-by-side, lest any question of precedence should be involved, Anazeh and I followed ben Nazir into the house.

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.

"What's she stalling forwith that face?"

The man happened to enter the cobbler's stall, and falling into a gossip heard about the body which the cobbler had sewed together.

The youth said: "Go and say to your father, 'Dip a bundle of hay in water, strew it with salt, and put it near the horses' stall.

The very servants, who, when amidst the strapping, stall-fed, gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion House, (transferred with the chairs and tables from one Lord Mayor to another) dared not speak nor look, nor say their lives were their own, strutted about the house, and banged the doors, and talked of their "Missis," as if she had been an apple woman.

If the buckets are too large, the wheel will stall, and if too small, the wheel will not give its full duty.

The copy in my possession is the only complete one I have seen; but I once stumbled upon an odd volume at a book-stall.

A "Golden Stall" at Durham or St. Paul's made its occupant a rich man.

Orchard women were going from one stall to the next, as slender of body and as neatly dressed as the peasant girls of an opera ballet, their hair in señorita style, their skirts of bright batiste gathered up to hold their purchases and showing fine stockings and tight-fitting shoes underneath.

At the stable every horse was within its own stall: every piece of saddlery was intact.

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.

But at all events I saw the tidings run round the circle of the choir, overleap the boundary stall, and even reach the officiating priests, who inclined an eager ear to catch it, and passed the word one to another in the intervals of the chanted sentences.