Do we say stationary or stationery

stationary 509 occurrences

Then came the roaring impression of speed, of rushing bushes that gathered themselves and ran back past the car while, working under full power, it stood stationary, as it seemed to Johnnie, in the middle of a long, dusty gray ribbon that was the road.

But at that distance the vessel seemed to be stationary, so they did not give up hope.

Here we had to remain stationary for several hours.

Once or twice, when we were stationary, I gave the order to scatter in the fields to left and right of the road.

"Just the thing for my stationary tank for the goldfish," exclaimed Carl.

" "They meant a stationary engine," he said, "you crazy Indian.

Then he discovered some manner of sorcerous power over matches in the wind, lighted a cigarette, and signalised his sense of refreshment by smoothly edging the indicator needle up toward the eighty notch, where he held it stationary until Lanyard and Liane with one accord begged him to consider their appetites.

" "It will be in this hour of darkness, then..." A bend in the road blotted out the stationary lights of the limousine.

We had pushed on faster than our supplies, and with the equipment of a Casualty Clearing Station we had to do the work of a Stationary Hospital.

Then at last the railway opened up a big Stationary Hospital, our Casualty Clearing Station moved further to the bush, and Sister Mabel's work was done.

" Romilly made light of the matter, but there was a slight frown upon his forehead as they passed along the curiously stationary deck.

A stationary table, however, in the center of the room assisted Mr. Heatherbloom in eluding the wild dashes, the while he continued to lunge and dodge in a most businesslike manner.

During the winter time they are very stationary, each band staying within a very few miles of the same place, and from their size and the open nature of their habitat it is almost as easy to count them as if they were cattle.

But if there had been in those days an Ararat Central, with good "incline" and stationary engine, they need not have sent out dove or raven, but might have started for home as soon as the rails shone in the sun and they could get the Ark on wheels.

A method which centuries before had been successfully applied to the local crimes of small and stationary communities bound together by the closest ties of kinship and of fellowship in possession of the soil, when every transaction was inevitably known to the whole village or township, became useless when new social and industrial conditions had destroyed the older and simpler modes of life.

She went to the ugly stationary washstand and bent over it, while the maid kept her hair from her face.

This strange personification of the East and North, as if they were stationary geographical terms, not merely, relative, only means that Mongalia lay in the most north-easterly part of the then known world.

As long as beaver were taken in abundance, the camp remained stationary; but whenever the beaver began to grow scarce, the camp was raised, and the party moved on to another valley.

The desire seemed to be to make the merchant class a separate class, stationary, and consisting exclusively of bourgeois, shut up in their counting-houses, and prevented in every way from participating in public life.

After the insects had remained stationary in this apparently unnatural position for about half a minute, they sprang off from the stage with considerable agility, and launched themselves into the air.

If a peculiarly bloody murder has been tried, or if some domestic intrigue has produced a complicated love story, however offensive in its details, you will find our reading crowd stationary in that quarter, to enjoy the tragic stimulants of terror and pity.

The hot springs are not stationary, but suddenly disappear, and burst up in another place.

In solution of the question whether a continual improvement in education might not compensate for a stationary or even retrograde condition of natural gifts, I made inquiry into the life history of twins, which resulted in proving the vastly preponderating effects of nature over nurture.

If at that time an ascent of more than 1 in 200 was required, it was thought necessary to have inclined planes and stationary power.

[Alluding to a tin representation of that fowl which remains stationary among the painted rushes.

stationery 118 occurrences

There were sundry stationery cases and an almanac or so suspended on the walls, which were oaken panels.

Steinmetz looked grave while he unfolded the thick stationery.

Almost every family in the United States having a son in the service has received letters written on the stationery of one or other of the organizations, for together they supply abundant writing materials.

There's a stationery store there too, where you can buy fishhooks and marshmallows, and other things to eat.

The following was scrawled upon a sheet of soiled stationery: "John Merrak, esquare, to Marshall McMahon McNutt, detter.

He passed furtively down Werter Road into the High Street, and then stood a moment outside Stawley's stationery shop, which is also a library, an emporium of leather-bags, and an artists'-colourman's.

It is true that molasses-and-water was the beverage allowed by Congress in those simple times, and that charged to stationery.

We went into a school one day where, for lack of slates and stationery, the children were copying their writing lessons in the sand on the floor.

While we were encamped on the banks of the Colorado River, in the hot month of July, 1854, we concluded to locate a town-site on the slip of land opposite Fort Yuma, and as we were well provided with treaties, maps, surveying instruments, and stationery, there was not much difficulty in making the location.

MODERN STATIONERY MONOGRAMS

(Stationery) © 10Jan23, Print 26208.

R71572, 15Dec50, Western Tablet & Stationery Corp. (P) THE PEST, by Albert Payson Terhune.

R68502, 16Oct50, Albert Galloway Keller (A) STATIONERY monograms.

SEE Modern stationery monograms.

WESTERN Tablet and Stationery Corporation.

(Stationery) © 10Jan23, Print 26208.

R71572, 15Dec50, Western Tablet & Stationery Corp. (P) THE PEST, by Albert Payson Terhune.

R68502, 16Oct50, Albert Galloway Keller (A) STATIONERY monograms.

SEE Modern stationery monograms.

In one of the stores where he stocked up with books, magazines and stationery for his train, there was an old printing press which the dealer, Mr. Roys, had taken for a debt.

During the latter part of that first week I wrote many letters, so many, indeed, that I soon exhausted a liberal supply of stationery.

My first request was that I be supplied with stationery.

While waiting for an answer, I busied myself writing, and as I had no stationery I wrote on the walls.

But, above all, I was again given an adequate supply of stationery and drawing materials, which became as tinder under the focussed rays of my artistic eagerness.

2. The second of the sources of interruption, as I have enumerated them, is the distribution of pens and of stationery.

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