halt

• He made it a point of honour to continue until Johnny called a halt, and, though Johnny did this often, he found himself always near the limits of his strength, and would drop like a log when the word was given. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• The only thing that brings the impressive transfer to a halt is a series of technical discrepancies that distracted me throughout the performance. —  High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News
• The usual recourse in such cases is to assume that the mediums are fraudulently in league with one another; but when unprofessional psychics experience the same sensations (or perceptions) there is good ground for calling a halt, and asking whether or not the sensations were not possibly genuine in the case of the professional medium also In other words, and to summarize this part of the discussion, I can only say that there seems to me no valid reason for thinking that the spirit-hands in Home's séances were probably hallucinatory in character because only some of the sitters saw them. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• The distracted gaze had gone from her eyes, and she listened without a tremor to the voices of the wailers behind Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt--Dicky, not the Mudir. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
• The sailors had very hard work dragging their guns through the deep sand, and it took four hours before they reached a spot suitable for encampment, within two miles of the enemy's position The spot selected for the halt was a space free from bushes, and large enough to afford room for the encampment and to leave a clear margin of some fifty yards wide between it and the bushes. —  The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition

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