estop
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But are expressions of this sort, are mere supplications uttered under duress, to estop every person who utters them, and all his posterity to the end of time, from asking for entire justice?
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
I told him that the children were in the habit of getting them from the meadow beyond, hoping to estop the suggestion I knew was coming.
From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret
He perceived that the object was to estop, by his admissions, any objections to the course pursued in permitting the Taranteens to leave, which he might afterwards be disposed to make.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
Oh, we estop sometimes, but no for long.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Such was alien to his kindly nature; and if it had not been, there were other causes to estop him from any such indulgence.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry
No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
It certainly would be inequitable to say that she had been estopped on account of what was done with the five thousand dollars in the hands of the trustees.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
Every stilted phrase, every estopping, restraining word of its redundancy, was like a bar between him and his hopes.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
