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"What! is it Front-de-Boeuf," said the Black Knight, "who has stopt on the king's highway the king's liege subjects?—Is he turned thief and oppressor?"

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

My family, mistaking ambition for honour, and rank for dignity, have long planned a splendid connection for me, to which though my invariable repugnance has stopt any advances, their wishes and their views immovably adhere.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

He exclaimed, and his face with excitement fierce burns, "Ah, it now has stopt short! 'tis to pouch it," he thought; "Look! 'tis running again, and the fellow is caught!"

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.

Tomorrow tidings may come that the house which issued them has stopt payment, and what do they represent then?

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Her career has stopt short by the injudicious bringing her out in a vile new Tragedy, and for a third character in a stupid old one,—the Earl of Essex.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary