stopt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“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
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
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
"Ah!" and then he stopt with his mouth open, as if embarrassed by this sudden confidence.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
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