stopt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
When the Substance that was stopt passes into the Stomach, the Patient must immediately be put into a very mild and smooth Regimen.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
By these Means the Vomiting has been stopt; and the Patient, upon going out of the Bath, has had several large Stools, which very considerably diminished the Violence of the Disease.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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