87 Verbs to Use for the Word stopping

"Yes, that's it; that's my little project for putting a stop to the Wraxby match.

" When he saw the Colonel stop and stare, he threw down his rope and began to laugh, for there below were the blackened remains of a big fire, silhouetted sharply on the snow.

At any moment he might hear the lift stop, steps across the corridor, the ring at his bell, the plainly-clad, businesslike man outside, with his formal questions, his grim civility.

A line in Lycidas says: "He touched the tender stops of various quills," and this may be said of Milton.

How to write double-stops for violin, viola and 'cello

He was still drunk, but he was able to drive out of the city and find a truck stop where he slept in the Jeep for three more hours.

"But 'long 'bout de een' er dat five year dey come a stranger ter stop at de plantation.

Now Frollo, after his discomfiture by the king, fled to Paris with all the speed he might, making no stop upon the road.

On the plummet touching bottom, the tension in the cable between it and the anchor-chamber is lessened, and the windlass mentioned stops.

It may be said, that "Rhyme is such a confinement to a quick and luxuriant Phancy, that it gives a stop to its speed, till slow Judgement comes in to assist it

It appears to me however that the sense would rather require either a full stop after 'his own,' and a comma after 'sorrow,' or else a comma after 'his own,' and a full stop or colon after 'sorrow.'

It was about a week after the cat 'ad disappeared that George Barstow was standing at 'is door talking to Joe Clark, who was saying the cat must be dead and 'e wanted 'is property, when he sees a man coming up the road carrying a basket stop and speak to Bill Chambers.

Why looke you now, how vnworthy a thing you make of me: you would play vpon mee; you would seeme to know my stops: you would pluck out the heart of my Mysterie; you would sound mee from my lowest Note, to the top of my [Sidenote: note to my compasse] Compasse: and there is much Musicke, excellent Voice, in this little Organe, yet cannot you make

One of the finest organs in Europe is the far-famed one at Freiburg, having 67 stops and 7,800 pipes, some of them 33 feet long.

The curves do not supersede other stops; and, as the parenthesis terminates with a pause equal to that which precedes it, the same point should be included, except when the sentences differ in form: as, 1.

A Tune a daya beginning scale book; may be used as supplement to any violin method; includes studies in thirds, arpeggios and an introduction to double stops all in the first position.

For the shrewd old lawyer had an artist's hand with which he played upon the keyboard of the jury and knew just when to pull out the stops of the vox humana of pathos and the grand diapason of indignation and defiance.

" "Give him orders to cut out all the stops.

I've got toput a stop to it some way.

Arriving in front of the Hôtel de l'Univers it executed a full stop and stood curbed yet palpitant, purring heavily: an impressive brute of a car, all shining silver plate and lustrous green paint and gold, the newest model of the costliest and best automobile manufactured in France.

"The principal stops are the following: The Comma (,) the semicolon (;) the colon (:) the period, or fall stop (.)

This complimentary spirit seemed to fill the short-stop also, for he sent down to his rival Jumbo a considerately easy little fly, which stuck to Jumbo's palms as firmly as if there had been fly-paper on them.

To untrained eyes it was impossible to guess which of the trails one ought to follow; and without much surprise we suddenly found the motor stopping, while its wheels spun round vainly in the loose sand.

He found that a full stop expressed his feelings too violently, and wrote the letter again, for the fifth time, because of the big initial which followed the full stop.

I can guess the heart-stop, Fall and lull and sequence, Full of grief for Syrinx 15 Long ago.

87 Verbs to Use for the Word  stopping