180 examples of stubbed in sentences

About halfway up the cellar, I stubbed my foot against something that gave out a metallic sound.

So, rolling our pants up above our knees (there was no use of talking about shoes and stockings; such luxuries were not within the range of indulgence to boys of our age in those days, save in the frosts and snows of winter, and stubbed toes, stone bruises, and thorns in the feet, come floating along down from the long past, like shadows of darkness on the current of memory.

By the way, will some rich man, who was reared in the country in the good old times when boys went barefooted in the summer months, when chapped feet, stone bruises, stubbed toes, and thorns that pierced and festered in their soles were the great ills that 'darkened deepest around human destiny,' solve for me a problem of the human mind?

she exclaimed, as she stubbed her toe against something hard.

" "Just as I thought," said Mrs. Gilligan, referring to the object she had stubbed her toe against.

" "All right," Pap stuck out a ready, stubbed palm, and received in it the silver that was the price of the little girl's time for a week.

It seemed just the same as when he used to go to her with his stubbed toes and his troubles.

Esther laughed suddenly, a bubbling, girlish laugh, and then pretended that she had laughed because Jane had stubbed her toe.

"Stubbed my toe, thassall.

short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate^; retrousse^; stocky; squab, squabby^; squat, dumpy; little &c 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c 572; summary.

Saw you a Lady come this way on a Sable-horse stubbed with stars of white? 2 Wood.

But when he had walked a couple of paces, he stubbed the toe of his wooden shoe against something hard.

And these few words of newspaper type, which nobody else seemed to be noticing, somehowas if one had stubbed one's toedisturbed the picture.

He had the thick hand, stubbed fingers, with bristled pads between their joints, square, broad thumb-nails, and sturdy limbs, which mark a constitution made to use in rough out-door work.

The children turned their stubbed-toed shoes out into the aisle, their eyes menacingly on Camilla.

The old familiar picturethe firelight rich and red, The lamplight soft and mellow, the shadowed beams o'erhead; And father with his paper, and mother, calm and sweet, Mending the red yarn stockings stubbed through by careless feet.

Now what aesthetic culture can you evolve from that stubbed, straggling weed you call the potato?" The discomfited pupil meekly suggested that he had been considering the dietetic, not the aesthetic properties of the despised vegetable.

There had been some fine old oaks on the land when he inherited it, all mercilessly stubbed-up at the beginning of his reign; there had been tall straggling hedgerows, all of a tangle with blackberry bushes, ferns, and dog-roses, hazel and sloe trees, all done away with by his order.

In about a Second there was a Sound as if somebody had stubbed his Toe and dropped a Crockery Store.

"Have you stubbed your toe, little boy?" He looked up, dazed.

I claimed that my feet hurt, I had stubbed my big toe, and had a thorn in my heel.

"No," said I, "but I stubbed my toe most confoundedly, jarring it upon the rascal's backbone as he went through the door.

This is well known, universally allowed, and by some in part remembered; the rest being, in some places, not stubbed out to this day.

His stubbed toe was hurting him, and the murmur of a ripple in the stream a few rods below the cattle guard called to him enticingly.

" The little daughter of a clergyman stubbed her toe and said, "Darn!"

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