me and my four companions overboard, place us in statu quo, and the action shall be discontinued.' "'Agreed,' said I, and I reached down to enter upon the performance of my part of the contract.

Thus the matter of Mr. Heatherbloom's staying or going continued, much to that person's discomfiture, in statu quo.

It would be a satisfaction to me, and I should think to yourself, that the unopened letter in Mr Hodgson's possession (supposing it to prove your own) should be returned in statu quo to the writer, particularly as you expressed yourself 'not quite easy under the manner in which I had dwelt on its miscarriage.'

Rab was in statu quo; he heard the noise too, and plainly knew it, but never moved.

So one force stimulated another force, neither of which would have appeared if feudal life had remained in statu quo.

Assuredly the founders of the Colleges intended them for education (so far as they apply to persons in statu pupillari), the statutes of the University and the Colleges are framed for education, and fathers send their sons to the University for education.

Thus I was perspiring terribly by the time I returned to the hotel, to learn that no telegram had come as yet, that things were still in statu quo.

at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541

in statu pupillari [Lat.], in leading strings.

restore, put back, place in statu quo

in statu quo [Lat.]; as you were. phr.. revenons a nos moutons

"In statu quo ante bellum."

[6305]Some seem to be inspired of the Holy Ghost, some take upon them to be prophets, some are addicted to new opinions, some foretell strange things, de statu mundi et Antichristi, saith Gordonius.

Fraenaet stimuli animi, velut in mari quaedam aurae leves, quaedam placidae, quaedam turbulentae: sic in corpore quaedam affectiones excitant tantum, quaedam ita movent, ut de statu judicii depellant. 1593.

The only matter that's been left what you call in statu quo is that business of Miss Bruce's, which I had nothing to do with.

" The term of Mr. Irving's contract with his Philadelphia publishers expired in 1843, and, for five years, his works remained in statu quo, no American publisher appearing to think them of sufficient importance to propose definitely for a new edition.

My suggestion is that, with the consent of Lord NORTHCLIFFE and the Allies, a slice of the old Front should be kept up in statu quo, and a representative assortment of troops retained to hold it on what was our side, and to carry on the War as it was in the good old days of '15, when we thought our life's work was bespoken and soldiers with boy babies raised the question of making acting rank hereditary.

The Afghanistan question, is, so to speak, in statu quo.

Our people returned to their statu quo, being all peaceable since they have got a Quartermaster to control them.

This Dial, which was really no common or vulgar invention, formerly stood in Privy Garden, Whitehall, at a short distance from Gibbons's noble brass statue of James II., which, as a waggish friend of ours said of the horse at Charing Cross, remains in statu-quo to this day.

You will carefully keep all (except the Scotch Doctor's, which burn) in statu quo till I come to claim mine own.

Presently the two vessels were again in sight of each other, everything on board of each remaining apparently in statu quo.

In the laws governing the interests peculiar to men, and those affecting their interests in common with woman, great advance had been made during the past six centuries, but those regarding the exclusive interests of women, had remained in statu quo, since King Alfred the Great and the knights of his Round Table fell asleep.

The salary of editors and contributors may vary from nothing to ten thousand a year; but through all mutations of this life, the printer's wages must remain in statu quo.

The heaps of cotton-seed and the implements used by the planting-gang remained in statu quo.