26069 examples of stopped in sentences

Elizabeth stopped and then ascended the steps.

"Now," said Robin when they stopped, "if you will come here to-night at twelve o'clock, when the moon shines under this tree, you will find me waiting for you.

She stopped at the first door she came to, and knocked three times.

But there she stopped, feeling that it would be scarcely polite to tell him that she had begun of late years to lose faith in him.

Logotheti stopped and stared.

He almost smiled when Feist stopped speaking.

The story about me is perfectly true too.' Margaret was amazed at her friend's quiet cynicism. 'Not that about thethe envelope on the table' She stopped short.

The next moment the black bolted down the drive, but Mr. Van Torp did not seem the least disturbed, and the astonished groom, his mouth wide open and his arms hanging down, saw that the rider gave the beast his head for a couple of hundred yards, and then actually stopped him short, bringing him almost to the ground on his haunches.

For when you have once desired money, if reason be applied to lead to a perception of the evil, the desire is stopped, and the ruling faculty of our mind is restored to the original authority.

And she stopped herself immediately; as though she thought I should have no understanding; but, indeed, I was upon mine own familiar ground of inward delight; and I replied in a quiet and usual voice, that the Towers of Sleep would grow that night, and I felt in my bones that it was a night to find the Giant's Tomb, or the Tree with the Great Painted Head, orAnd

surely I stopped very sudden; for she gripped me in that moment, and her hand shook as she held me; but when I would ask her what ailed, she bid me, very breathless, to say on, to say on.

Whatever the considerations, Lee yielded his judgment; the movement suddenly stopped; and the Army of Northern Virginiaif a skeleton can be called suchremained to await its fate.

fortunate condition of the poor people, at whose houses he stopped, than by his own situation.

In accordance with these sentiments, General Lee had not announced his coming, had not stopped as he rode through the city; and now, shutting himself up in his house, signified his desire to avoid a public reception, and to be left in privacy.

General Lee said little, but, just as they reached the college, stopped and remarked with great earnestness, his eyes filling with tears as he spoke: "I shall be disappointed, sir, I shall fail in the leading object that brought me here, unless the young men all become real Christians; and I wish you and others of your sacred profession to de all you can to accomplish this result.

" THE WHISTLER Throughout the sunny day he whistled on his way Oh high and low, and gay and sweet, The melody rang down the street, Till all the weary, old, and grey, Smiled at their work, or stopped to say, "Now God be thanked that youth is fair, And light of heart, and free from care.

A weaker man would have made a detour, but he held a direct course, and with a curt nod to acquaintances who would have stopped him walked swiftly in the direction of home.

Then he stopped and glanced sharply at his daughter.

" The captain stopped in his walk and eyed her sternly.

"You're out early," said Hardy, as the old man stopped and turned with him.

" He stopped as they reached the town and said "good-bye."

He stood for some time thinking, then walked a little way, and then stopped again as various difficulties presented themselves for solution.

In regard to the mass of them I must record curtly that he stopped all factional disputes, transformed the government in a way to give it power, and strengthened it greatly.

At the same moment a fair-haired girl of twelve years came jumping into the room, and only stopped when she saw a stranger.

She stopped and watched them for a moment, when Hermia joined her and they walked toward the house together.

26069 examples of  stopped  in sentences