stopt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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“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
Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
And as I was passing by, I stopt the coach at captain Goodere's lodgings in Princes Street.
From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various
Being sent for very early in the Morning, I found her Pulse hard, quick, short; her Belly was tense and hard; she complained greatly of her Loins: her Urine was almost entirely stopt.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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