There is nothing to knock my head against, and things have patent stoppers on them, so that they can't roll away, and everything is soft and easy to pick up.

So, lads, put on your stoppers, and let us to the hut, Where we’ll gather round and have a friendly game, While some are playing music and some play ante up, And some are gazing outwards at the rain.

"Don' reckon nobody could git a deed off on you wid stoppers in it, does you?"

"Now you puts it to me lak dat, Peter," he answered with importance, "I wonders ef dat gimlet-haided white man ain't put some stoppers in dat deed he guv you.

"Stopperswhat do you mean by stoppers?" Tump opened his jet eyes and their yellowish whites.

"I means nigger- stoppers," he reiterated, amazed in his turn.

"Negro-stoppers" Peter began to laugh sardonically, and abruptly quit the conversation.

There were bangles and jewels among them in plenty; and as it was a high day and a holiday, the women had taken out the little gold or silver stoppers in their pierced nostrils, and put in their place the great gold ring which hangs down over the mouth, and is considered by them, as learned men tell us it was by Rebekah at the well, a special ornament.

Tackles were rove and stretched along forward of the windlass, as well as deck-stoppers hooked on to the ringbolts fore and aft.

"Stand by, to cut away the stoppers of the best bower anchorto let it go, stock and fluke," said Captain G. "Man the fore-topmast-staysail down-haul; put your helm down!

The order was executed as rapidly as it was given; the anchor was on the bottom, and already had fifty fathoms of cable run out, making the windlass smoke; and, although the cable was weather-bitted, and every effort was made with the deck-stoppers and tackles to check her, all was fruitless.

By rope stoppers the cable was at length brought to a standstill, and it strained most ominously, perspiring at every part great tar drops.

And so it looked to the audience when the long row of men were tied up like dummies in sacks that reached to their necks; for, after the first muddle at the start, two small brick-top figures went bouncing along in the lead, like hot-water bags with red stoppers in them.

[MEPHISTOPHELES bores, one of the party has in the meantime prepared the, wax-stoppers and stopped the holes.

Your stoppers draw and drink your fill!

ALL (as they draw the stoppers and the wine chosen by each runs into his glass)

The most distinguished had cork stoppers for heads, with faces marked on the sides, the rest, only wads of paper or cloth fastened on the ends of sticks that reached down into the bodies.

Some manufacturers once proposed using tin stoppers to their bottles of pickles.

When there is occasion to put stoppers on the mouths of a boat's crew, why, I'm not the man to gainsay it; but, as I am one of them that thinks tongues were just as much made to talk with, as the sea was made to live on, I uphold rational conversation in sober society.

He seemed to see this Christian fellow sitting on his bed, bare-footed, rumple-haired, talking dogmatically of perfumes and vials and stoppers thrown away, talking of faith in women.

These kedges lay on the poop, where they were habitually kept, and two men had no great difficulty in getting them over the stern, suspended by stoppers.

The oil was specially volatile, and in the warmth of the sun (for the tins were regularly set in an accessible place on the top of the cairns) tended to become vapour and escape through the stoppers even without damage to the tins.

This process was much accelerated by reason that the leather washers about the stoppers had perished in the great cold.

In that scantily furnished room, like the interior of an army and navy supply store, the cut glass flasks with gold and nickel stoppers, protruded among the clothing and papers, and stood up in the corners denouncing the forgetfulness of their enchanting breath.

They pulled all the stoppers out of the molasses.