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Synonyms for stops
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up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!
They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some strange perversion of terms, 'The Green': when the Dodger made a sudden stop; and, laying his finger on his lip, drew his companions back again, with the greatest caution and circumspection.
A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity.
The pony, impelled by some secret sympathy or some new caprice, burst into a great pace, and neither slackened it, nor indulged in any eccentric performances, until they arrived at the door of Mr Swiveller's lodging, where, marvellous to relate, he consented to stop when Mr Abel checked him.
'Whoa!' means to stop; 'Get-Up!' means to walk forward; 'Trot!' means to go as fast as you can.
"If you or any of your men meet with the woman, stop her, and send her in careful keeping to that address.
Not as many as I did at first, because now only the new ones stop in there-- the others go right along through.
"I shan't hate fresh air if we can find--" He remembered just in time to stop himself from saying "if we can find the secret garden" and he ended, "I shall like to go out with you if Dickon will come and push my chair.
de Bragelonne turned round; his countenance expressed a lively grief, but he did not stop; we then concluded that his horse must have run away with him.
"Big fella shark-fish, that fella leg stop 'm along him," the ancient grinned, exposing a horrible aperture of toothlessness for a mouth.
One of the most common is the sight of a couple of towers, walking briskly along, deep in an animated discussion, while the man in the boat, a hundred yards behind them, is vainly shrieking to them to stop, and making frantic signs of distress with a scull.
Him say any amount bad fella boy stop 'm along bush.
'I must calm myself and think things over,' he said to himself, but yet he could not stop, and continued to urge the horse on, without noticing that he was now going with the wind instead of against it.
Graham says we ain't to stop there when there's time to construe more."
"Stop, that the gentleman may see," said the officer, with that frank kindliness which is peculiar to military men, to the soldier who was acting as postilion.
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- stop number
- stop order
- stop over
- stop payment
- stop press
- stop up
- stop watch
- stopcock
- Stopes
- stopgap
- stoplight
- stop-loss order
- stopover
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- stoppage
- Stoppard
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- stopwatch
- storage
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- storage-battery grid
- storax
- storax family
- store
- store cheese
- store detective
- store-bought
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- stopping you in your tracks
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- stopping your clock
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