180 examples of stubbing in sentences

He would be out of place, and out of uniform, as well as out of temper with himself, if he was for any considerable length of time without the stub of a marvelously black pipe in his mouth, filled with plug tobacco, shaved and rubbed in his hand into a proper condition for smoking.

Now, I happen to have the stub of a candle in my pocket, and the wind has died out, so I think it will burn if I stick it down low.

Presently, he threw away the stub of his cigar and crossed to a small mirror.

He is fit to meet the bar-room wits and bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more; he is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bush-whacker; knows all the secrets of swamp and snow-bank, and has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.

"Lookit here, Jake," Piney continued to the sheriff's address, "you don't have to kick my wood all over the county, do you?" "I'm lookin' for the knife," explained the sheriff, ceasing not to stub his toes against the solid chunks.

A bullet struck a rock two feet below where Racey lay on his stomach, his rifle-barrel poked out between two shrubs of smooth sumacanother bored the hole of a gray stub at his back.

Indeed, in my moodier moments it sometimes seemed to me that I could not move a step without stubbing my toe on the woman.

She went straight to the jail and met the sheriff at the door, where he sat, smoking a stub of a pipe.

Her face was round; her little button mouth was round; the comical stub of a nose which perched above it gave the effect of being round, too, while the deep dimple that indented her chin was very, very round.

In one of them he found the worn stub of a pencil, and for many minutes after that he was oblivious to the passing of time as he wrote his last words to Meleese.

Therefore, after this, I condemn my stub to long and deep silence, or shall awaken it to write to lords.

the long expected letters from "Jemmy Stubbing," or the Nailer Boy.

SEE Lithographed stock certificate and stub, orange color border, eagle vignette ...

Lithographed stock certificate, with stub, lady vignette, green border ...

R60348, 3Apr50, Dorothy G. Sapp (C of Edwin Greenlaw), Margery G. Dunn (C of Edwin Greenlaw), Mary E. Greenlaw (C of Edwin Greenlaw) & Clarence Stratton (A) LITHOGRAPHED STOCK CERTIFICATE AND STUB, ORANGE COLOR BORDER, EAGLE VIGNETTE, ORANGE COLOR BACK.

R60296, 31Mar50, Goes Lithographing Co. (PCW) LITHOGRAPHED STOCK CERTIFICATE, WITH STUB, LADY VIGNETTE, GREEN BORDER

That was a stub-nosed, heavy automatic.

In the country, if a bitter writer of the time, (Stub's Anatomie of Abuse,) may find credit, every public-house was crowded from morn till night with determined drunkards.

The stub of his cigarette lay smouldering between his feet.

It is a picturesque stub of a pine about twenty-five feet high, usually-with dead, lichened limbs thrust through its rounded head, and grows on crags and fissured rock tables, braving heat and frost, snow and drought, and continues patiently, faithfully fruitful for centuries.

In the end he tossed the cigarette stub away and rose to his feet.

"Ah! Captain," he said easily, tossing his stub aside, and drawing forth his case for another.

" He produced an old envelope and a stub of soft pencil with which he jotted down Gary Peters' directions.

"They 'll be apt t' stub ther toes 'fore they git very nigh us.

Here and there in the gap a stub was standing, trunk and limbs naked.

180 examples of  stubbing  in sentences