Yet how often are drivers seen tearing up to the curb at twenty miles an hour or more to slam on the brakes at the last instant with a violence that nearly causes the car to turn a somersault, bringing it to a standstill in twenty feet, when there was no earthly reason why they should not have used four times that distance.

So, monsieur, we must indeed part here?" They had all come to a standstill at the gangway of the steamer.

exclaimed Jerry, as the three boys came to a standstill on the border of the camp.

Half-way up the hill we discovered Mr. Sydney, who had walked on ahead, very busy with a team of oxen, towards which, having encountered them without a driver, he had taken upon himself to act as "guide, philosopher, and friend"; and by dint of great application of his umbrella, open and shut, in the last-mentioned capacity, he brought them to, and kept them at, a standstill by the side of the road till the carriage passed.

The wheels being undamaged, the engine had run far enough to come gradually to a standstill of itself, and thus the passengers had been saved a violent shock.

But in the history of literature there is often a complete standstill for the same period; nothing has happened, for clumsy attempts don't count.

Then he came to a sudden standstill as a wild, forlorn-hope kind of idea suddenly occurred to him.

"You stop that cussin'," resumed Racey, seizing the bridle short and yanking the bouncing horse to a standstill with a swerve and a jerk that almost unseated its rider.

"Where is the red glow from the rubies?" His horse had come to a standstill beside hers.

The latter, an expert at his trade, with a jerk of both wrists slid two glasses and a bottle down the bar so that a glass stopped in front of each man and the bottle came to a standstill between them.

If the runner comes to a standstill without falling within this distance he will be held to have stood.

They only employ the cleverest men" A rattle and roar drowned the rest of his words, and he blinked and leant back, holding the woman's hand and tapping it softly as the engine rushed down with a blast of white vapour hissing under its fore wheels, and the carriages clanked upon each other, and the whole train came to a standstill before us.

Fielding came to a standstill behind Juliet, and stood looking on.

The roof of a shed, torn away by the current, had come to a standstill beneath our window.

While international law has been brought to a standstill through the absence of a common will and a common executive, Great Britain has thrown a girdle of law around the globe.

I dare say you have ridden two horses to a standstill to-day?

The echo of her scream died in the cavern, the cup rolled on the floor and came to a standstill against the wall; but still she made no sound, only gazing as if entranced.