1 I endeavoured to stop her thoughtless tongue.
2 He stopped on observing his error: his cousin flew to him.
3 The carriage stopped; and the sleeper being roused, was lifted to the ground by his uncle.
4 I remember stopping to kick the breath out of him, and then hurrying up-stairs, to my room and hers.
5 I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.
6 My landlord halloed for me to stop ere I reached the bottom of the garden, and offered to accompany me across the moor.
7 What he meant to do I cannot tell; however, the other stopped all demonstrations, at once, by placing the lifeless-looking form in his arms.
8 It struck beneath my ear, and stopped the sentence I was uttering; but, pulling it out, I sprang to the door and delivered another; which I hope went a little deeper than his missile.
9 Heathcliff had gone to loose the beast, and shift it to his own stall; he was passing behind it, when Hindley finished his speech by knocking him under its feet, and without stopping to examine whether his hopes were fulfilled, ran away as fast as he could.
10 He drew it nearer, and then rested his arms on the table, and looked at the opposite wall, as I supposed, surveying one particular portion, up and down, with glittering, restless eyes, and with such eager interest that he stopped breathing during half a minute together.