stop'd

You will make her perfectly understand that I deem the discharge very usefull, and consent to its being stop'd for a time, only in the event of its being in a state which will not yield a sufficient quantity.

Letter 165 2009

On my way home I stop'd at the Mosque of Nadir Shäh, so called from his having been convey'd to the top of one of its minarets that he might the better behold the massacre

Sporting Sketches 2002

Boston when a person stop'd her upon the road to tell her the news.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 May 1776 1963

Lysander excuse me that something I promis'd you, since it was a Speach more undutifull than that which I Just now stop'd my self in -- for the present good by.

Letter from Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 - 20 April 1764 1963

When He pleases, the soaring Eagle is precipitated to Earth, and the light footed Roe is stop'd in his Career.

John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

Glar'd in their Royal Eyes, and stop'd their flight.

Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Samuel Cobb

_ Ha! Ready-money is the Prize I look for; it passes without suspicion every where, when Chains and Jewels are often stop'd and call'd for before the Magistrate: But ----

The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

= = > If any of the above mentioned Articles are offered to Sail, it is desired they may be stop'd with the Thief, and Notice given to said

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

He'd been aght one day tryin to sell some red yearin, but it seemed as if noabdy wanted owt o 'that sooart that day, an' as he wor commin back, a lot o 'chaps wor stood at th' corner o 'th' fold, an 'one on 'em stop'd him an says, "Ha is it tha'rt bringin thi yearin back agean?"

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Commerce stop'd — at the end of the year retired from the store.

A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias, Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Containing a Collection of Certificates, Letters, &c. Written by Himself. 1855