estop

Example Sentences

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"I know Theriff Briggth, he rid over the boundary with a lot o' men and horthes," said Johnny, with that hurried delivery with which he was able to estop interruption.

From Cressy by Harte, Bret

By publishing his new libel, you estop yourself from denying me this freedom.

From A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel by Abbot, Francis Ellingwood

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

Sige's theoretical knowledge of war and his experience were then felt to be so overshadowing to everybody else's as to estop criticism.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John

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