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  • Adamantine Bouille's look alters not; yet the word Halt is given: gladder moment he never saw.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • A battalion open column entering a new pofition iirherc its rear flank is to be placed — If the wheels are made to the pivot hand, it receives the word Halt H'hen its rear divifion has juft completed its wheel into the new diredion. —

    Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces Great Britain Adjutant-General's Office, Sir William Fawcett 1794

  • The man moved his rifle from side to side so as to cover each of us in turn, and cried in English, "Halt!

    Captain Macklin Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Nickham and others formed the organisation called Halt All Racist Tours (HART) in 1969, initially to co-ordinate opposition to the 1970 All Black tour to South

    ANC Today 2007

  • Captain Crozier called a Halt that day — the first such full day's stop we had enjoyed since leaving Terror Camp almost six weeks earlier.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Later, a group of mothers will demonstrate at the Capitol, launching a campaign to keep the assault weapons ban, a campaign called Halt the Assault.

    CNN Transcript May 9, 2004 2004

  • The named divi (ion ftands fait, the others march forward in clofe column in the given line: Their pivot officers fucccffively take wheeling diftance from ea« ii other, beginning at the named one, and iucceflively give their word Halt as each has acquired it:

    Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces Great Britain Adjutant-General's Office, Sir William Fawcett 1794

  • Hitler wanted peace with Britain, as the German generals admitted (Basil Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill 1948, Pan Books 1983) with regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk, where Hitler had the opportunity to capture the entire

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010

  • There has been strong local opposition to the scheme and a campaign group called Halt has been formed to fight the plans.

    EDP24 News 2010

  • There has been strong local opposition to the scheme and a campaign group called Halt has been formed to fight the plans.

    EDP24 News 2010

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