单词 | stop up |
例句 | I needed something to stop up the opening so Yeller couldn’t get out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The joy it gave me just wouldn’t be stopped up. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you—” My nose is so stopped up, I sound funny. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It’s lucky for my ears that the Special Events floor is only a few stops up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The Berg stopped up ahead, its blue thrusters pointing downward now as it hovered fifty feet or so above the Town Square, a roughly square-shaped area they’d left bare when building the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z With the closure of the port, most of the College’s income was stopped up and its investments nullified; and so to anxiety was added penury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This would be the moment that Aziz—peeking from between a row of spark plugs—would see her new husband stop up a volcanic rage, as if it was a bottled djinn. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “We can just stop up our ears. There’s a big tub of candle wax below deck—” “I want to hear them.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z After that, the man stopped up the hole that Scabious had come out of. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I think, to stop up her mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Corporal ordered we should gag him; and gladly we did, to stop up such filth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It came inside our house, where our mother stopped up her ears and her mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It stops up my mouth and the mouths of others. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He would hold his nose and stop up his ears when she passed by the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He died while I was stopping up the two holes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Jacob’s feelings raged so hot and confusing that they stopped up his throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They spent their days stopping up leaks and replacing pipe joints. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Bono came to our fly, bursting full of news; but seeing this tableau, he stopped up his tongue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I could supervise your camp followers. We can’t have the men stopped up, now can we?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I found myself driving down the highway, one hand on the wheel, the other pointing to the rest stop up ahead. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Mothers stopped up their babies’ mouths so their crying would not attract the planes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A customer came in with him and they stopped up front. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When my eyes were all swollen and my nose was completely stopped up, I heard my door open. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Not with this cough. Milk would stop up my lungs.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some of them had been stopped up for years, but I soon had them draining merrily away.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s not stopped up with poison that can be drained. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster 2012-04-23T10:07:39Z Cloglodyte: A houseguest who manages to stop up the shower drain in the space of a weekend visit. Style Invitational Week 1275: That Is the Question 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z There’s something about the arachnid that stops up the throat.” China Miéville and the Politics of Surrealism 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z They stay clear of the bubbles and manage to stop up the well, and leave the ocean floor almost spotless when they leave. TV series shows hazards of underwater oil work 2010-05-11T21:23:00Z To comprehend this larger vision of Lautrec, one has to stop up the ears. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z I nodded, a fistful of Kleenex stopping up my nose. Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z Not that O’Connor, born just four stops up the train line in the Dublin suburb of Glenageary, feels particularly romantic about the setting. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The kitchen sink is stopped up, as is the bathtub and toilet. Review: In ‘Evicted,’ Home Is an Elusive Goal for America’s Poor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The setting is Irish Brooklyn, beginning early in the 20th century, although we make brief stops up the Hudson and catch glimpses of the American Civil War. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z From there, slowly pull the snake back out and throw away the hair and other gunk that was stopping up your drain. The best way to unclog every drain in your home 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In one of the exhibition’s strongest galleries, we see the bottom half of a woman’s form made out of concrete, and her holes—do they scream for daddio?—are stopped up with cigarettes. Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “Most of the time whenever a toilet is stopped up, it’s within four or five feet of the toilet.” The tools to make your home work — and look — just right 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z "I now put the food away when I go to bed, but in the morning I've found the towel I've used to stop up the gap is pulled out and chewed too." I'm being terrorised by the squirrels in my kitchen 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Others have been stopped up on purpose with cotton balls or whatever else came to hand in an emergency after air valves stuck open. National Cathedral raises $115 million for earthquake repairs, future 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z In peat wetlands, inundating the land—and stopping up those weird little chimneys—has the potential to reduce so much CO2 that it would more than compensate for new methane emissions, according to Deverel. Carbon Credits Versus the “Big Gulp” 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Better sidewalks would also benefit 17,000 daily E Line bus riders who use stops up and down the whole of Aurora. A $50M experiment aims to make Aurora Avenue work for trucks, bicyclists and pedestrians 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z It shows a white van stopping up a ramp and trays of ballots being unloaded at 3:25 a.m. Detroit ballot van simply working late on election night 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z But you can’t let your fear and anger stop up your ears. Pence gets tangled in the flag 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The department says the upgrades to SR 189 will eliminate the current need for trucks to stop up to three times between I-19 and the border. Arizona launching project to improve Nogales truck route 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A tent protected attendees from much of the deluge but not enough, with crews scrambling to stop up leaks and sweep collecting rainwater off the roof. Oscars 2020: Rain soaks the red carpet, but Hollywood stars still don their best 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Lemahieu, shifted over from third base, made a diving stop up the middle to begin a slick force play that drew an appreciative bow from a clapping Tanaka. Tanaka Ks 10 in 2-hitter, Yankees blank Rays 3-0 to up lead 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “We’ll stop up here and get you something to drink, too.” She was 16. He was 25. They got married. Should that still be allowed? 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “I guess one of the girls put too much toilet tissue in the potty and it got stopped up,” Edwards-Barris said. Pearls of parenting wisdom from the real Bow Johnson 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The next stops up the ladder are high Single-A Potomac of the Carolina League and Double-A Harrisburg of the Eastern League. Juan Soto turning heads in minor leagues 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The GOP is beyond repair, that the Democrats don't understand their side having failed in 2016 remains the cork that is stopping up what happens next. Opinion | Is There Life After Liberalism? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Boeser went the other way again and ripped another shot off the wing that Allen stopped up high. Brodziak lifts Blues over Canucks 3-1 to end skid 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z It was crudely composed of a length of pipe stuffed with match heads, its ends stopped up. Bomber Strikes Near Times Square, Disrupting City but Killing None 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z After three months of heart monitoring and tests, the neurology doctors said it was rare, but they think going off aspirin caused the blood to clot and stop up a small artery. Drug for battling overdoses may also relieve pain 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Unlike Mr. Trump, he was not competing against 16 GOP rivals who stopped up a number of national security advisers. Trump campaign supporters during election snubbed for Pentagon, State Department, national security 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Some visitors say it feels like their ears are stopped up, because they hear so much less noise than usual. A room where sound goes to die — and scientists go to study 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z “We don’t see as much of the drains getting stopped up because people pour it down the sink,” Carroll said. Grease collected at Birmingham public housing being recycled 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z On the way out, against orders, he stopped up the whole procession to actually talk to the contestants. ‘Stone-cold killers’: What it’s really like to be a guest food critic on MasterChef 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Many of the jars held numerous test tubes stopped up with cotton. Yes, there’s really a National Parasite Collection, and it’s getting a new life at the Smithsonian 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Antiperspirants try to stop sweating, typically through aluminum-based salts that stop up apocrine glands, or sweat glands. Deodorant and Antiperspirant Mess With Your Microbes 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But if you look up in New Hampshire, the only way Trump might be stopped up there is by independent voters who are no longer Republican. “It’s going to be hard to change the Republican party”: E.J. Dionne explains how the right went wrong — and helped create Donald Trump and Ted Cruz 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z A few stops up the Green Line, a 26-year-old District resident named Rod experienced the same rush. ‘Everyone was just going crazy’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, about 42 million Americans are persistently stopped up, making constipation one of the most common gastrointestinal problems in the United States, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. 8 Myths About Constipation 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Passover novices might wonder: Why is this holiday different from all other holidays in terms of stopping up the digestive inner workings? How to Make Passover Easier on Your Digestive System 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “There’s no tomatoes, no berries. Everything is stopped up.” Baja farmworkers' strike crimping some produce supplies in U.S. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z At every stop up the minor league ladder. Just for kicks: Guthrie takes ‘Sneakerheadz’ mainstream 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And no special security perimeter like when Bill Clinton made a stop up the street the day before. Former president Jimmy Carter discreetly campaigns for his grandson Jason Carter It doesn’t matter how hard you try to stop up the drain, if you keep pouring water in, it’s going to leak or burst. A Defense Of The Ebola Quarantine 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z As if to prove some alien force had not sapped his defensive ability, Desmond ended the inning with a dazzling diving stop up the middle and a rifle throw to first. Kershaw, Dodgers are too much for Nationals, 4-1 On Saturday, Scooter Gennett made a bid for Milwaukee’s first hit in the seventh, but shortstop Brandon Crawford made a diving stop up the middle to start an inning-ending double play. Peavy takes no-hitter into 8th of Giants’ 3-1 win 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z In fact, today’s cars pay testament to Scotty’s famous quote in Star Trek III: “The more they overthink the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain.” Top 10 New Car Technology Blunders 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Ten or 15 years later, when the tree’s branches are pushing up against windows or stopping up gutters, it will have to be removed. How to select the proper trees for a new home’s yard Police stopped up to 100 people trying to leave Jindo island intending to march to the country's capital, Seoul. Anger erupts over Korea ferry rescue 2014-04-20T03:49:43Z To start the experiment stop up the hole in the cap using a piece of wax or soft putty. Do-It-Yourself Coiling Liquids 2014-02-01T05:00:00Z “It builds up a blob that stops up the drain,” White said. A Thanksgiving tradition: a great feast — and pipes clogged with used cooking grease 2013-11-28T00:23:52Z A ping pong bat or tennis racket is often the first resort, but we have found that constant flooding with a hose pipe to be most efficacious combined with stopping up the burrows. A Feast of Cicadas 2013-08-28T13:15:00.830Z Vehicles equipped with "car-to-x" technology, should warn of hazards far beyond the vision of the driver including traffic jams further along a motorway or a vehicle making an emergency stop up ahead. Talking cars accelerate to launch 2013-06-25T00:48:54Z Then, with torn fragments of his apparel, he stopped up any holes which might have been places of concealment for scorpions or other venomous insects. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Similarly the efficiency of a boiler is but slightly reduced if half the tubes are stopped up, because the increase of draught through the remainder compensates partly for the diminished heating surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z I think I heard there were three or four of ye stopping up there at Cobham; but I never go out myself anywhere. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z He stops up with them outsiders on deck! Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z "Oh, if you go to bed of course I shall not stop up by myself," Mary said; "but I am convinced that I shall not close an eye." The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z If you light a fire in a room, and afterward stop up every chink by which air can gain access to the fire, except the chimney, the fire will go out in a short time. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The king of France, seeing them thus fall back, cried out, "Kill me those scoundrels; for they stop up our road, without any reason." A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Another plan in the greenhouse is to dash water on the pipes or flues, which causes steam to rise to the glass and freeze there, stopping up all the crevices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The sash of this was gone, and the space stopped up with a loose sheet of manilla paper. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Again, if a lamp is burning on the table, and you stop up the chimney at the top, the lamp will go out at once. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In other cases Fungi, and even Bacteria, have been found to have made their way into the principal vessels, the lumina of which they stop up, thus reducing the transpiration current. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z When the entrance to its breeding-hole is too large, it partially closes it up with mud mixed with straw; if there be two entrances it stops up one altogether. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z “In the mouth,” we are told, “was a little hole just large enough to admit the head of a pin; water was poured in by a hole in the back, which was afterwards stopped up.” England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z Fissures were opened in the streets from which poured forth bituminous gases; springs were stopped up, and new ones opened. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Stinging and twisting in the left ear, with a feeling as if it was stopped up. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z If I'm to stop up here," he said to himself—"and I can't go down now I've got a chance of my Blue—I must make up my mind to get used to it. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z But I had to stop up and tell you. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z So now this bra' chieftain, who long has suspended And kept out of view what his master intended, Bursts out all at once, and an inside discloses, Disgusting the Tories, who stop up their noses. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z With bits of this he deliberately set about stopping up his ears as tightly as he could. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Perhaps I have a caprice—a fancy—for stopping up all night. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The worst job was to get the boat into the river, the mouth of it being stopped up with a raft, or "drift" about eighteen miles long. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z There is a possibility that the jets in the carburetor are stopped up. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z This is the well which was re-opened by Wycliffe and Luther, after it had been long stopped up. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Then take it off, first stopping up your nose, because the fumes of burnt lead are very injurious. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Then the old woman shut her up in the house, so that she might not hear another word about Gramigna, and she stopped up all the cracks of the door with images of the saints. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z On one occasion, the carcases of three horses were placed in a high walled enclosure, small holes having been made in the walls for the admission of the rats, and subsequently stopped up. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z They've been telling people down in the valley, and the thing has spread; how the rich Arnott girl, who has so much money she herself doesn't know how much, is stopping up here all alone. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z If the Cherubim and flaming sword stopped up the way to Paradise, the Lord Jesus Christ has opened "a new and living way" into the holiest of all. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z If much mud gradually settles in them the planks are raised and the drains are cleaned out, for they would otherwise become stopped up and obstructed by this accident. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z "I know how to stop up rat holes," said Bettie, who had not lived with seven brothers without acquiring a number of useful accomplishments. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z I thought I had seen to everything," she said presently, her voice shaking with anger, "taken every precaution, stopped up every hole where discovery could leak out, and fortune favoured you. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z It was also judged expedient, in order effectually to prevent it, to sink a number of vessels to stop up the passage. Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review 2011-10-11T02:01:07.053Z “Well, it is no good stopping up all night talking,” he said at last, and he got a mattress and some blankets for Jack. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z The joints are stopped up all round with moss or cloth rags. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z The King listened but grew more and more frightened; he stopped up both his ears and instead of answering retreated further and further towards the window. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z Light a fire in the fireplace; stop up the cracks in the door as well as you can; cover the child up well, and do not move from here. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z As for the burgomaster and the aldermen, they lay groaning on the grass, stopping up their ears in their fright. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z They were too cold, and too busy bailing out snow that drifted under the tent walls, or trying to peg down the walls or stop up the gaps with the balsam beds. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z I was happy till that night—you know the night I mean—and that night I was fool enough to think it was possible to stop up there—away up in the air. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z "And if you should stop up your ears with cotton, you would only deafen yourself temporarily; the trumpet call would sound all the louder." Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z Inside the fireplace, now stopped up, a few planks served as cupboard shelves, and the end of the mantel-piece as table and sideboard. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z He smoked for many years and battled to stop up until his death. Daughter finds solace in running 2011-09-07T16:45:19Z Finding knocks and thumps on the door as useless as their entreaties, and that the keyhole had been carefully stopped up with a piece of soft paper, the four beat a retreat. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z They stop up their ears; they shut their eyes; they have no pity for the sufferings of human beings. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z It's the old martin-house; but I've stopped up the door, and made the roof open, so it will hold all sorts of things, and save our valuable time. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z It has been thought a dangerous thing in any state to stop up the vent of griefs. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The gasoline man went in search of some and when he returned the holes were temporarily stopped up and the carpenter ambled off for his dory. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z He give me his gum t' stop up the hole in that pail. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The child was put to bed upstairs at seven o'clock, although he in vain petitioned to be allowed to stop up until the barge came along. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Never stop up a fire-place in winter or summer, where any living being stays night or day. Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia 2011-08-03T02:00:12.183Z The men have often had to stop up all night to get things finished.” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z We’ll stop up de cracks an’ sew up de seams— De Booger Man never shall ketch you! Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z “I shall have to unless I stop up my ears, since you stop up the doorway.” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z One end of the wand has an opening which is stopped up with a piece of butter. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Call the sexton, and have that stopped up quickly, or those sitting near there will soon catch their death of cold, and will never come here again. Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia 2011-08-03T02:00:12.183Z They stopped up the entrance of the tunnel from within with branches and leaves, so that no one could guess that the bush was hollow. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z "I stopped up here on account of the horse," Ann explained. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Where this is not the case they are stopped up, in winter only, with moss and rags. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z He had fallen asleep after dinner in his chair and, having a cold that stopped up his nose and his mouth being shut, he had the usual dream of being out of breath from running. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Wouldn't you women rather I stopped up with you?" The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z They flew away, stopped up on a hill encircled by the whole blooming landscape, near a little flower-garden, and then rolled along down. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Oh, well, glad to see you, and we hope you'll stop up here. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z By day they keep up a fire with reeds and dried dung; and at night, when there remains only clear coal, they stop up all the openings to confine the heat. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z There was a short, dry, hacking cough relieved by sneezing, an intense tickling sensation in the throat, the voice became husky, the pharynx dry, the ears stopped up and tinnitus occurred. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It has not interfered with my picture, but has stopped up unavoidable gaps. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z As Susan pronounced these words, a voice behind the little listening crowd cried, in a brutal tone, 'Let us pass, if you please; you have no right to stop up the public road!' The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z All the woodwork was of this wood, including the ceiling and all panelling; and the pores of the fragrant timber were not stopped up with varnish. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Fifteen hundred women are there, sewing the sand sacks that are to stop up the breaches. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z When a person is unconscious his tongue is apt to fall back and stop up his throat. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z This said, he got up again, and approaching the entrance of the cave, he found it stopped up with brakes and bushes, so that he would be obliged to make his way by force. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z It was a muzzle-loader and after wiping it out carefully at the doctor's quarters I found one of the tubes were stopped up. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z My idea, Arthur, is that you remove whatever you care to retain, stop up the rat holes, and then seal up the place forever.” Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z Has the snow stopped up the keyhole, or is there no such thing? The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The first and fourth of the six lateral holes are double in order to accommodate both right- and left-handed players, the holes not in use being stopped up with wax. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The lights might all go off again, or the plumbing might get stopped up. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z Marry her and stop up in the churchyard afterwards,” he said with a grim smile full of piteous sadness. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z It was a party about to turn back, and the sledges stopped up the road. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z I must say the biggest thing about it is that blank wall stopping up where they left off. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z Dere schooling makes me wish I could walk de streets wid my ears stopped up and eyes blindfolded so I couldn't even hear nor see dis educated generation. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z Two stops up the line, Farringdon station is set to become one of the most important interchanges in the country. Missing link 2011-02-20T12:41:42Z If by any means the air-tube should be cut or stopped up, the diver must immediately come to the surface, or perish. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z She had ways of doing that hair so that it would not stop up, but tumbled down unexpectedly and caused great admiration. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z “Here, Harry, use this,” ordered Tom, as his companion picked up a coat to stop up the hole in the broken sash. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z "It's as if they were stopped up," she said. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Are you going to stop up a hole in your head an inch deep with that thing? Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Still lying in the ditch, I noticed close to me the opening of a gutter-stone stopped up with mud and grass. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z When these had done their business, they were removed and the holes stopped up. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z Now, all this comes from this new-fangled notion of having women at table; if they are to be squeamish and spoil all the fun, let them stop up their ears. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z On the floor above, they removed the seams, and stopped up with plaster the little holes that had been left by the preceding operations. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Seeing an old sailor stopping up the hawse-holes, with swabs, one evening after we had anchored, I asked him what he was about. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z I stopped up my ears to shut out his voice.... My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z However, I ducked down in a corner, whilst De Chevron stopped up the missing pane with a filthy rag without even catching a sight of me. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z It was a clumsy stone structure with remnants of Gothic built over and stopped up with bricks. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z And yet, somehow, even with his ears stopped up, sounds seemed to penetrate to him and to carry their own tale. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Besides, the chinks were forthwith stopped up; and they became aware that the enemy was engaged in the same work that he had performed around the doors and windows. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z One highlight for the Mariners was Josh Wilson's spectacular double play in the fifth -- diving stop up the middle, and flip from his glove to Figgins. Gutierrez says "it was obvious" he was safe in ninth 2010-08-31T06:19:00Z Also on the table: Pumping drilling mud through the top of the cap and into the well bore to stop up the oil flow. Seepage near BP cap coming from another well 2010-07-20T20:16:00Z The other option is what Mr. Suttles called a “junk shot,” which he likened to stopping up a toilet. A New Setback in Efforts to Contain the Gulf Oil Spill 2010-05-09T02:59:00Z The pores in his skin had been all stopped up with the gilding, so that the damp, warm air could not get out, and that caused his death. Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners All the other openings, doors and windows alike, are stopped up with blocks of stone laid and cemented since our last meeting. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z Mr Moore was once sent with commission into Kent to try out, if it might be, what was the cause of Goodwin's Sands which had stopped up Sandwich Haven. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Why, sir, one night I felt a’most ready to bust with indignation when he came down first, with Mr Pellet stopping up in the loft to think, I s’pose. A Little World I am turning on the taps, here, Dasso, and all the crevices in the room are stopped up. The Princess Galva A Romance Lying weather-bound, stopping up the tent against the driving snow while the wind flits round us, attacking first one side and then another.” Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Coralie was there, unconscious, hardly protected from the sand which was slowly stifling her, trickling through, stopping up her eyes, suffocating her. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z In case you cannot find a suitable passage, make one and stop up all other holes. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Do let us have trifle and sausages for supper, and let Baba stop up for it. The School by the Sea How were they going to stop up the crevices between the logs? Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War It was not quite impervious to drifting snow, and we had usually a good deal of trouble in stopping up cracks and openings with our wind clothes and things of that sort. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 This passage must form a snug porch in the winter when it is covered with slabs of frozen snow, and one end stopped up. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea It was the chief art’ficer engineer that took on that job, an’ it was him, too, that stopped up the gaps left by the knocking down o’ the first and second funnels. Sea-Hounds No; Mrs. Trevellyan's making a great concession as it is to let him stop up till nine. The School by the Sea In sleep the passages of the senses are stopped up, and the outer fire reaches us only through breath. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It was a close little room, with a mouldy smell as if the chimney were stopped up and the window never opened. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story Cry, "Oh! oh!" when Chunnel-Tannel makes crafty appeal for support of Irish Members, and go out in body to stop up the Tunnel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 Barricaded the window and never thought to stop up the chinks. The Riddle of the Night They exhaust p. 95the air within, and when a sufficient vacuum is obtained, stop up the hole with a pellet of chewed paper. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 The neighboring town of Winchelsea was destroyed in the reign of Edward I., the mouth of the Rother stopped up, and the river diverted into another channel. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology We were obliged to stop up the oblong openings, and congratulated ourselves upon the wisdom of the ancient builders. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Presently some undergraduates who were stopping up for a few days at the end of term came cheerily in and shouted vaguely. Years of Plenty "Him and t'others stopped up here at the sheriff's, but I come ahead to fetch the news to the little Marrs chap." Mothering on Perilous The jovial pair Remained where they were; Gog and Magog stopped up all night! The channel of the river being stopped up, the water overflowed the country round the gardens about the town, and some of the streets, so that fishes lay dead in them. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology He would stop up the river and fill it with dirt as when the freshets brought down the debris of the storms from the mountain sides. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina The gardener has to rake the surface of the beds frequently to stop up these channels by which the sun is stealing the precious moisture. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The mole now stopped up the hole through which the daylight shone, and then accompanied the ladies home. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series But if its escape be prevented by stopping up the spout and crevices, it will force its way by bursting the vessel in which it was confined. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Others imagined the same event to have been due to an earthquake, which drew down masses of rock, and stopped up the course of the Peneus in the narrow defile between mounts Ossa and Olympus. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Maui remained awake one night, and when all were asleep, arose quietly and stopped up every crevice by which a ray of light could enter. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina But I don't, because it was my rotten cricket-ball that stopped up the pipe and caused the midnight flood in our bedroom. The Wouldbegoods “The olives are all spoiled, and I have stopped up the jar again, so that if Ali Cogia ever comes back he will not discover that I have touched it.” Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women Then he says: "But he done us a good turn with the spoon, anyway, without knowing it, and so we'll go and do him one without him knowing it—stop up his rat-holes." The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade I had thought of stopping up their chimney during the night. Northern Diamonds Ears and feet cold; body and head very hot; body hard and distended; nose hard, dry, and almost stopped up with thick matter; dry, husky cough; fæces, hard; pulse rapid, evidencing much fever. The Dog It kept the men of the Essex busy enough to pump her out and stop up the holes, so that she should not go to the bottom. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read Frequently it is a beaver colony built across a valley in the mountains, or stopping up the outlet of a slough. The Story of the Trapper The walls, naturally, are rough in texture and the joints are generally stopped up and besmeared with a thin coating or almost a wash of clay. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) He now set about his task, stopped up with moss and herbage every chink through which a glimmer of daylight passed, but this was a difficult, and—as it seemed to him—an endless task. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors But in a few minutes he stopped up short; for he bethought him of the Mass, and he knew there was little time for delay. Irish Fairy Tales Men!" cried Malcolm, "you have no right to stop up this road. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. I grabbed blindly, feeling sure I should miss,—for it was a thousand chances to one,—but I was stopped up violently. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia He tried one after another, but every one of them was stopped up. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Then sheets and halyards are sweated up, ropes coiled, and a boy sent aloft to stop up the gear. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Here and there broken windows were stopped up with rags and papers and through the insecure crevices the wind found its way with a rasping, tiresome groan. The Daughter of a Republican "I can't talk with my mouth and nose all stopped up!" returned the boy. Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail Begirt with bandits who stopped up every outlet, Toulon quaked for fear. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages You may know it by its being always stopped up with donkey chaises. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land They had taken advantage of the heavy sleep induced by fatigue, to strangle him; his body had been put into the chest, the chest thrown into the well, and the well stopped up. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Then we mixed mud and stopped up the cracks in the log walls. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw I would shut the doors on this side of the place it has got to, roll blocks of coal and rubbish to keep 'em tight, and stop up the chinks with wet mud. Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines He made new holes in order to stop up the old ones. Jena or Sedan? “Why not stop up and see the tender come off?” he suggested. The Bandbox About January he would come over with Lot, or with Robbie Baker, stop up the mouth of the beaver’s tunnel, break in the dome of his house, and capture the family. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Public opinion demanded that these holes be stopped up as soon as possible. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw "She's accusing us of everything but stopping up the royal sink." Before Egypt He could not curse and swear as his mouth was stopped up; but he rolled his eyes and squinted so violently that he was horrible to look at. Fairy Tales from the German Forests She would have liked to stop up her ears so as not to hear that twanging music. Absolution Move away, my good fellow, move away; you may get behind a tree even, and stop up your ears, only don't shut your eyes; and if any one falls, run and pick him up. Fathers and Children I represented that the worm-holes could be stopped up and varnished over, that the missing bits of inlay, precious crumbs of pearl and ivory, could be replaced, the tapestries renovated. Aurora the Magnificent I may go and stop up one hole; yet down goes the vessel. The Way to God and How to Find It The part that we were in was stopped up by enormous blocks of rocks, lying one on the top of the other. Adventures in the Philippine Islands A groan, suppressed and prolonged, could be heard in spite of the rag which stopped up his mouth. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' And on the way a little old man met him and stopped up the road; but he asked him: “Old man, why dost thou place thyself in my way, and wilt not let me pass?” The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales “What? you never were so foolish as to stop up all night at work over those plane mirrors?” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam We might not find any traces of the plugs used to stop up, once a year or so, the rock part of the descending passage. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Description of a syphon: Make up a tube of copper or other metal, and bend it in the form of an Ankus'a or elephant hook, fill it with water and stop up both ends. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass When the drainpipe of a kitchen sink is stopped up, you can often clear it by sprinkling lye down it, and then adding boiling water. Common Science If one of them happened to be late it had to perforate the partition, and the hole was then stopped up again. The Industries of Animals Otherwise, the drain pipe may become stopped up with sediment washed out of the jars. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair He stopped up in front of them, giving Phil a careless nod. The Spoilers of the Valley “Well, I might,” Tom admitted, “but I sure would stop up a few cracks.” Rim o' the World If near enough for leaves to drop on the roof, rain troughs and leaders become stopped up and cause trouble. Rural Hygiene At the approach of this dreaded crisis each hollows a hole between two roots, supplies it with green leaves, and carefully stops up the entrance. The Industries of Animals Whenever you find the pores of the separators stopped up from any cause whatsoever, put in new separators before charging. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair Smiler stopped up in front of the dirty, dingy entrance of a little hall occasionally used for Chinese theatricals. The Spoilers of the Valley I couldn’t stop up every night, so I only saw them twice.” The Red Hand of Ulster We cannot stop up here or we shall die of hunger. The House Under the Sea A Romance In the domain of these birds trees may be found which are riddled like a sieve with holes stopped up by an acorn as by a plug. The Industries of Animals They had all the openings and cracks which they found in the chamber stopped up, and then went to bed again; but hardly had the valets de chambre retired than it appeared again. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Jim, Phil and McLean had only got along about half a mile, when they stopped up at the sound of the fast beating of horse hoofs on the highway behind them. The Spoilers of the Valley Presently the Fisherman returned with his net, and stopped up the channel leading to the river. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Then he tried to stop up the entrance to their den with his coat, so that he could catch them. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad The direct object of this preparatory cannonade was to destroy the wire entanglements, bury the defenders in their dugouts, raze the trenches, smash the embrasures, and stop up the alleys of communication. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War When he got to the house he closed the door and the window, and stopped up even the smallest chinks. Aino Folk-Tales Jim stopped up in front of a stable, pushed his way inside––for the door was ajar––tumbled down in a corner among some hay and, apparently, was soon fast asleep. The Spoilers of the Valley Bruise the spices; tie them up in a cloth, and hang it in the vessel, which must be stopped up close for use.—Another way. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families And as he was rowing on, he heard the bone of a seal calling to him: “Take away the moss which has stopped up the hole that goes through me.” Eskimo Folk-Tales I don't mind so much now that we've got such a good tower; and why can't I stop up there even after the ship sets sail, and look out over the sea with a telescope? Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland They could not get out, because Penaumbe had closed the window and the door, and had stopped up even the smallest chinks. Aino Folk-Tales Eileen Pederstone stopped up with a start and looked at him with half frightened eyes, as if endeavouring to recall a bad dream yet half afraid lest it should return to her. The Spoilers of the Valley In this situation it should not be closely stopped up, but a tile or something similar should be laid on the bunghole, to keep out the dust and insects. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families There is an archway in that ruin, and a flight of steps goes down—only five steps—and then it is all stopped up with fallen stones and earth. Oswald Bastable and Others Grooms will almost always stop up ventilation if they can. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid My mistress had said nothing about stopping up until four o'clock—but for that matter she hadn't mentioned ten pounds sterling either—and here was this merry gentleman talking about it glibly enough. The Man Who Drove the Car She smiled, and was about to address him when she stopped up. The Spoilers of the Valley Put them all into a wine flask in a sand-heat for ten days, shaking it occasionally till the last day or two: then pour it off clear, and keep it stopped up close for use. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families When Satan appears to stop up our path, And fills us with fears, we triumph by faith; He can not take from us, though oft he has tried, The heart-cheering promise, "The Lord will provide." Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul "I thought that tunnel had been stopped up for good and all." Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland Square, thick, and of no extraordinary height, it resembles in appearance most other towers in Cornwall—except in one particular, all the belfry windows are completely stopped up. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot “But if he stops up both nostrils, how is he going to breathe?” was my natural inquiry. The Land of Thor They are safe, for if a bullet does hit them, it cannot come through, although it may stop up the hole. Life in a Tank Now take a small bit of bread and work it between the fingers till it becomes a paste; with this stop up the hole at the big end of the egg. Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Terli had hold of me, and not an inch would he loosen his grip till I promised to let him see the wedding by getting the Wood-Trolls to stop up the Church Fountain. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Her old room was cleared of furniture, the mouse-holes stopped up, a cat put in at night, and a bull-terrier by day, and traps of all kinds. Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Before playing it the performer carefully stops up one of his nostrils with leaves and then applies the other to the first hole into which he gently blows with his nose. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The quickest and surest way of getting rid of them is to search for every hole, apply the ferrets, stop up the holes afterwards, and to keep a watch for any that return. The Complete Golfer Sometimes they had glass in them, but were oftener stopped up with rags. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius We soon had the floor stopped up with clay. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Stopped up," he remarked, withdrawing it, and peeping into the barrel; "not dirt, either—stopped up with paper! The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator At one extremity is fixed a tiny cone made of palm-pith that stopping up the tube, receives the impulsion of the air blown into it so violently. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Or, they may be killed by suffocating them with a gas or by stopping up their breathing pores with some powdered substance, such as pyrethrum. The Pecan and its Culture I suspected you were only pretending to stop up your ears.” The Brothers Karamazov On the other its wooded declivities sloped down to an idle brook now stopped up by water-lilies and white crowfoot. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The tears that had been stopped up all evening could be held no longer. David and the Phoenix This mass he then puts into a tube stopped up by leaves which lets pass a liquid but not a substance. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) “That’s what the first luff said, sir, and we’ve been doing nothing else; but as fast as we stopped up the beggars kep’ on shoving the stuff out again with bamboos.” Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop This narrow conduit, which an ill-calculated pressure might stop up beyond hope of remedy, seems to me extremely difficult to obtain. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Later the water got stopped up, and for love or money no plumber—” The speaker paused, his shoulders lifted eloquently. The Dominant Dollar I take a stone and stop up the hole. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The mouth is then stopped up with leaves, and the bamboo is placed over the fire, resting on a stone at an angle of forty-five degrees or more. Children of Borneo They were deceitful walls, for they were extensively loop-holed, the apertures being cunningly stopped up with mortar. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India You run to the house and see if mother wants anybody to go for the doctor, while I try to help this boy stop up the doorway. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Its manner of operation is by stopping up or filling their spiracula, or breathing pores; a few drops of oil poured on a wasp, so as to cover it, destroys it in a few seconds. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Because that's one of the reasons I stopped up to talk to you. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles The nose and mouth of the body were stopped up with clay and lime, probably to keep the soul from getting out, and the body was surrounded by a little hut. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The King of France seeing them thus fall back cried out, "Kill me those scoundrels, for they stop up our road without any reason." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The same directions must be attended to in stopping up the inside of the box, as with the front. The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection Attached to the house there was a small garden shut in by a grating which was stopped up with iron plates. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man The cottages let by the week look shabby, slovenly, dingy; the hedges of the gardens are neglected, broken down, stopped up with anything that comes to hand. Change in the Village The mole now stopped up the hole through which the daylight shone, and then accompanied the lady home. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Nasal tuberculosis appears similar to the common stopping up of the nose. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated When you raise the boxes, stop up the bed with rotten moist dung, and close up the inside about two or three inches above the bottom of the box. The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection I looked at the chimney, but it's stopped up, and the man says there's no other door. Jonah and Co. He tied the animal's legs together, and having stopped up its nostrils with mud, he held the poor beast's mouth tightly with one hand until it died by suffocation. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Then she brought the heaviest stones she could carry and laid them over the dead body, stopping up the interstices with moss. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Often the external parts of the nose are swollen as a result of the catarrh and the nostrils are stopped up with thick yellowish-green rinds. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Well, it isn't lively stopping up here when everybody is going, is it? Tom Brown at Oxford This when cool is as hard as soap, and is very useful to stop up cracks, and is better to cover the corks of bottles than sealing wax or hard cement. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed And this latter could have been stopped up with rocks in half an hour, so that nobody could get through it. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts “I can’t stop up here for ever, much as I should prefer to stay until I had done something for my patient.” The Mystery of the Green Ray Well stopped up and wrapped up it was, and it could see neither a lantern nor a candle, not to mention the sun or the moon. The Sand-Hills of Jutland He had noticed the hedge before; the keeper had stopped up a gap in it the day before, at the place where it came down to the water, with some old hurdles and dry thorns. Tom Brown at Oxford Susan retired reluctantly, deeply regretting that she could find no time to stop up the key-hole with her ear, thus rendering it impossible for prying eyes to peep through that orifice. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter By covering the eyes of drains, and stopping up any cross-water channels, the water may in this manner be conveyed along the street, from a very considerable distance. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction To render the blockade effectual, it was requisite to stop up the port. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Mr. Darrin stopped up in the village for supper and to send a telegram or two. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers On the contrary, I don't mean to stop up more than another year at the outside. Tom Brown at Oxford Obstipation implies that the canal of the intestine is stopped up or closed. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis She dropped into her chair, stopped up her ears; but the cheers never ceased, kept on increasing, filled the theater with a roar as of thunder! The Bill-Toppers Did some malignant Hand stop up the Avenues of Life, and break its Springs, so as to baffle all the Tenderness of the Parent, and all the Skill of the Physician? Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old After a while I got up and put them back up the chimney, and stopped up the throat of the flue with newspapers. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs "I thought he meant to stop up at Oxford and take pupils," said Mary. The Bertrams Is it a small matter to have the main sewer of a city partly or entirely closed, or the main sewer pipe of a dwelling stopped up? Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis The shiftless one only nodded in reply, but both as they ran tied their ammunition again around their necks, seeing at the same time that their powder horns were stopped up tightly. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" They were like a trio of hungry cats watching the twistings and turnings of a poor mouse that had its safety-hole stopped up, and could find no means of escape left open. Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold “Tell him you have given me the mug, and I am willing to dip the sea dry, but first let him take this tow and stop up all the rivers that flow into the ocean.” Tales of Folk and Fairies The man whose vista is always stopped up by the image of Himself. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Shortly after leaving the Equator, the Prince Frederick gave signs of distress, and it was necessary to send the carpenter on board to stop up a leak on the larboard side. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century I also stopped up every aperture and crevice as before, leaving only one large one—that which I knew the rats were accustomed to use as their principal entrance. The Boy Tar Little acts of authority, such as stopping up pathways, brought the tongues of the neighbouring population and gentry upon her, until her royal highness had the vexation of seeing an action brought against her. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Some towerists have been stopping up here to one these houses and engaged me to take their luggage down to the pier. Dorothy's Travels I treat them in this way: Cut away a little of the hole, pour in the chloroform and stop up the hole with soap. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 We tore off more strips of sheets and went all round, stopping up cracks wherever we found them. A Chosen Few Short Stories All openings in the hedge were thereafter stopped up, and no one was allowed outside before réveille. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bevis kicked and struggled, but it was no use; the bailiff carried him home, and then went back with a bill-hook, and cutting a thorn bush, stopped up the gap in the hedge. Wood Magic A Fable When steel pipe and steel boilers are used for storage tanks and connections, the pipe and tank will shortly start to rust and parts of the piping are stopped up with rust scales. Elements of Plumbing He took hold of the nose of the bellows, and held his thumb near the end of it, ready to stop up the hole. Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] By William’s advice we made three plugs, by which we stopped up the holes when we thought we’d had air enough for the present. A Chosen Few Short Stories That must have been due to the way they had stopped up the vessels. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have stopped up those that lead to the heart. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics When the roots get inside of the pipe they grow until the pipe is stopped up. Elements of Plumbing We have stopped up all the places, where it could get out. Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] They must have been stopped up of late, but now they are as clear and good as ever.” A Chosen Few Short Stories However, the hunchback did not get straight; the collector gave up his cigarette; it stopped up his chest twice as much. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life We were hard at work, mounting guns, preparing shells to be used as hand-grenades, stopping up surplus embrasures, and removing the débris which encumbered the passages from one part of the work to another. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 If the pipe is run into the box on the side a little up from the bottom, the possibility of becoming stopped up or filled up is not great. Elements of Plumbing Suppose the key-hole had been stopped up; where would the air have been forced in? Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] And what we’ve got to do now is to stop up all the cracks. A Chosen Few Short Stories There’s no flint to your lock, and if there had been, the touch-hole is well stopped up with rust, so you had two very secure preventives against its going off. The Three Midshipmen To this end we thought it well to stop up all the doors and the chimney, to keep in the delightful warmth. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World When the pipes are stopped up, steam is formed and a snapping and cracking sound is heard. Elements of Plumbing "No," replied Jonas; "you can see if you stop up the hole I made here." Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] He knew that it was caked upon his face by perspiration, until it had become a mask, and now his whole body tingled like fire with the tiny particles that had stopped up the pores. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness So he stopped up the opening, and thus always retained her. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology As it would have been difficult to stop up the hole, we allowed it to remain. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting "Choose a hard one," said Eunice, when Will had duly stopped up his ears. Cricket at the Seashore "You see," said Jonas, "that the fire already in the stump consumes all the goodness of the air; and I stopped up the hole, so that no fresh air can come in." Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] “Now to hit upon a good way to stop up that villainous spy-hole,” said Harry, and looked around the cell for something which would answer the purpose. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Then we had to stop up the holes with anything we had, and patch the paper as best we could. Land of the Burnt Thigh During the day these insects stop up their holes with sand, and only come out in the night. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting “Ladies, your most obedient!” said he, stopping up the path before them. Deerbrook It would have to-night if we hadn't stopped up the hole. The Five Jars I am by no means sure that we were wise in stopping up that spy-hole, or that by doing so we have served any good purpose.” Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess “We shall cease then to stop up the street, and you can go on your way with your bier.” Romola The tinker too with mettle, Said he could mend her kettle, And stop up every leak. The Book of Humorous Verse She decided she had too many chickens, so half a dozen of us were stopped up ready to be sold in the morning. The Chickens of Fowl Farm You tell him to stop up there and turn over every basketful as they chucks upon the heap.” Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites What was it that was stopping up the entrance? was it the body of my companion, who was thus exposing himself to the assaults of the infuriated crowd without? Ran Away to Sea "Yes, missus was in but she had an awful cold, and been all stopped up so that she could hardly get the breath of life." A Little Girl in Old Boston There are none so deaf as those whose ears are stopped up with the cotton-wool of their own bigotry. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Grief overcame, And I was stopping up my frantic ears,290 When, past all hindrance of my trembling hands, A voice came sweeter, sweeter than all tune, And still it cried, 'Apollo! young Apollo! Keats: Poems Published in 1820 I could not get near the cart, for the road down to Halloway's, on which it moved steadily without ever approaching, was stopped up. The Spectre In The Cart 1908 There I spent out fifteen cents to stop up one hole, and it runs out another. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Common worms stop up their holes with leaves or straws to prevent the frost from injuring them, or the centipes from devouring them. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin “Go and stop up the big hole in the wood.” Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story By stopping up the holes, however, the enemy was finally overcome. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar The pump was stopped up, and we had to help him clear it out, which was accomplished after much trouble and bungling. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Then Uncle Wiggily showed Mother Goose the rat hole, and it was stopped up with stones so the rats could not come in the coop again. Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters I just stopped up there in my pantry all night, locking the door, so as to prevent no one from getting in. The Island Treasure If this precaution be omitted, and if any paraffin splashes on to the hot surface of the box, it volatilises with decomposition and the products go to stop up the pump. On Laboratory Arts "It acts as if the rock we threw in has stopped up the old outlet and it was running back of the heap we pulled down instead." The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow The floods have stopped up all communication with London. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents Deep down in the hold, and swinging like spiders over the sides of the vessels, sailors tried to stop up with felt-covered blocks of wood the great holes through which the water was pouring. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 You're a siren out of the olden days of mystic legend, and I have kept my ears stopped up against your witching song, which I was afraid to hear. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands His mischief consisted, as usual, in such exploits as stopping up the keyhole, upsetting the teacher's inkstand, or fixing something to his desk to make a noise, and interrupt the school. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young The night before the battle he stopped up all night talking with Sidi, relating all that had happened since he had left him, and hearing from him what had taken place on land. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt One would stop up his ears with his fingers as he took his regulation number of dips, after which he11 would depart. My Reminiscences “We chiefly object to the portion which stops up the water-pipes,” said I. “What did you have to eat?” "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Most invertebrates and many of the lowest two classes of backboned animals, the fishes and the amphibians, cannot merely stop up a rent, but renew an entire limb, fin,—yes, even eye or head. Preventable Diseases They cut and carried off the green crops, stopped up their wells or spoilt their water, and sent off their families and flocks to places of safety. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity "You're stopping up the gate on purpose, and you must go." Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes I don't think anything could get out through that prickly pear hedge but, anyhow, any gaps there are can be stopped up with stakes. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) If a shell falls ahead of you, you will find your path stopped up. Shelled by an Unseen Foe Crusty fired till both barrels of his gun were stopped up; the skipper fired till his powder and shot were done; and I fired till—I skinned my tongue! Hudson Bay Of course they had a wooden plug ready and stopped up the hole. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories You see that we have already done the work in part, so that it only requires to be completed, and to have the centre gap stopped up. The Norsemen in the West “Make matches or firewood of it,” said Benjy just as he was about to stop up his impudent mouth with a lump of pemmican. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole It is packed, for exportation and to bring as tribute, in large round tin boxes, stopped up round the edges with mud. Southern Arabia “Then you stopped up in that shelter for long enough?” Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris If she has only a leak, that may be stopped up; a vessel from three to four hundred tons, why she is a regular ship compared to our Bonadventure! The Secret of the Island Having bored a hole, we scraped out the kernel, and then stopped up the orifice again with some resinous substance which Uncle Paul had brought for the purpose. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco Still Larry and I, having climbed to the top of the heap, began pulling away the beams and planks and rubbish which stopped up the entrance. Paddy Finn The old lieutenant might frequently have been seen, brush in hand, adorning his mansion, and stopping up every crevice, so as to defy damp, or rain driven against it by the fiercest of south-westerly gales. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade Quick, quick, captain, and stop up the gap!” The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America Over a length of at least twenty feet there opened two large leaks, which it would be impossible to stop up. The Secret of the Island “All those are stars far away in the sky, and I have heard say they are worlds; but how they stop up is more than I can tell, except God keeps them there.” Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land As I was feeling about I discovered a huge case of some sort which had been thrown down from above, and stopped up the way. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Occasionally the earth trembled and shook, but no more jets of vapour or gas burst forth, and the orifices of those which had first appeared were stopped up. The Three Admirals Stow speaks positively as to the existence of this stream, which, he says, had in his time long been stopped up. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London The Zulu gaoler no longer stopped up the doorway by his black body. Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand I know you both feel so poorly that you don’t know what to do, and I’ll stop up on deck and watch you out of spite.” Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor But, I say, do you think you ought to do any more about stopping up the hole so as to give a fellow a chance?” !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War “Do I think I could dive down among the breakers with a ginger-beer cork and a bit o’ wire, and stop up the hole? Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea “But ma said I might stop up as long as I liked,” howled Master Edgar. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel “Yes, sir there’s a hole yonder,” said one of the men, “and it isn’t stopped up.” Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig She is shown that her nose is stopped up by a spongy substance, as big as the end of her little finger, which obstruction can be easily removed. Civics and Health Then piling up all the rest of the furniture, the mattresses, palliasses and chairs, he stopped up the windows like one does when assailed by an enemy. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories “Of course not; but I want you to stop up those holes.” Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea “Then for goodness’ sake stop up all night, sir,” said Sir James impatiently; and Master Edgar stayed till the visitors had gone. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel And soon the two made such a roar that everybody else had to stop up his ears. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales For many reasons it is perhaps unfortunate that we can breathe at all when the nose is stopped up. Civics and Health And, I say, people generally come and see me when they want something, physic or plasters, or to have bullet holes stopped up, or arms and legs sewn on again. In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First Well, you needn’t stop up there, my lad. Fitz the Filibuster From the court we could turn them into one of the passages between the walls, stop up the ends, and capture the lot.” Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer Jemmy stopped up on that patch where you and me wrastled, and let me down with a rope. Cutlass and Cudgel Just as we unconsciously open the mouth when a cold stops up the nose, the eye adapts itself to our needs without our realizing it. Civics and Health Yes, sir, I said so—sealing wax, and stops up the holes with that. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle “May as well: I don’t want to stop up and listen to a gang of smugglers loading and unloading their stupid cargo.” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days It was not difficult then to stop up the orifice with a little fat. Three Boys in the Wild North Land Bring a bushel or two o’ lime stuff, and stop up this hole, all but a bit big enough for a pigeon to go in and out. Cutlass and Cudgel “Then, belay there,” replied Jorrocks, shouting out kindly, as he replaced the hatch cover, which stopped up the entrance to our hiding place so effectually that the interior became as dark as Erebus. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story This time he give him one full o’ snuff, but Jack tasted the tar as stopped up the hole, and was too many for him. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle “Is no way out now: it’s either stopped up or watched.” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days Mr. Gladstone always applied to the new system of 1849 Charles Buller's figure, of first lighting the fire and then stopping up the chimney. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 “I only stopped up to see the storm,” I said. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea Now stop up the glass tubes so that the water cannot get out. Lessons on Soil It has been thought a dangerous thing in any State to stop up the vent of griefs. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 And what can it be, that can so fill thy mind as to stop up all its entrances? The Substance of a Dream Miss Robbins, it developed, was a young doctor, stopping up the river in a bungalow with her mother. The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies “I stopped up to wait for the wind.” The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea This time some of the savages succeeded in reaching the stockade and stopping up some of the port-holes. The Big Brother A Story of Indian War My head, for the most part, was a large hogshead with a bumble-bee in it, and the bung stopped up. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Or else stop up those craving Things of ours! The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Upon complaint of certain superstitious and false notions of the vulgar, in 1497, it was stopped up by an order of the pope. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It appears Palmer'd told this man to stop up the chink in that old tomb. A Thin Ghost and Others When these are finished and we come to the water, then a wall should be built round the well without stopping up the vein. The Ten Books on Architecture For it is with wax that the sorcerer stops up the fatal little tubes in which he encloses the souls of his enemies. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia If these pores are stopped up or clogged, the waste material is secreted in the skin. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep Lime-house, if your coachman is not in fault; but you cannot stop up the way, and you had better get out, and let the carriage be removed to the Steel-yard.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade We thought of stopping up the cracks, but there were too many of them to make that practicable. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's When the windchest has received the air, these valves will stop up the openings, and prevent the wind from coming back again. The Ten Books on Architecture A bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform The inhabitants had either stopped up, or were engaged in stopping up, every chink through which petroleum might be thrown into their houses. The Insurrection in Paris "And the first thing he would do would be to stop up your hole under the fence." While Caroline Was Growing “I tried to make signs to Ole, ’cause I thought that man was crazy and might get the machine stopped up. My Ántonia In this vessel are valves, accurately fitting over the upper vents of the pipes, which stop up the ventholes, and keep what has been forced by pressure into the vessel from going down again. The Ten Books on Architecture Here he could hear much better than in the room above; which had but one loophole for air and light, and that was almost stopped up, with a wisp of straw. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War Well, there he was, all tore and bloody and not enough duds left to stop up a rat-hole. Tom Slade's Double Dare Butter I know they've got, and milk, for I see Wilkins stop up there this mornin' as I come down, and I wondered who on earth had taken that God-forsaken little cottage. While Caroline Was Growing I wondered why no water was running down into my chicken yard, and I came to see what had stopped up my brook. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm The interstices, which are left on account of the thickness of the building material, are stopped up with chips and mud. The Ten Books on Architecture He's so keen on learning, and would stop up half the night to pore over any old book of mechanics he can get hold of. Dick Lionheart Then, taking a piece of waste cotton, he stopped up his nose and tested the hose. Stand by for Mars! "There's one stopped up there a ways now." Tom Slade at Temple Camp "Well, I know you want to have fun, but please don't stop up my brook any more; will you?" he asked. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm In the lowest stage on the western face is a doorway which for some time was stopped up to strengthen the tower, but which was opened again at the general restoration. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings The other mode of egress, the armored tube inside the turret, was stopped up with the bodies of two dead signalmen. Banzai! by Parabellum Consequently, the possibility of tile drains becoming stopped up should be fully considered at the outset, and every precaution should be taken to prevent so disastrous a result. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health The hole was entirely stopped up with the body of a pinkish-grey caterpillar, and Mr. Barrymore explained that the poor car had simply stopped because it couldn't breathe. My Friend the Chauffeur The swollen Rice soon stops up the holes of the inner pot, and the Rice within becomes of a firm consistence, like pudding, and is eaten with butter, sugar, and spices. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A mile around the city The throng stopped up the ways; A fearful sight it was to see Through two long nights and days. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys I stopped up my ears again so effectively that I heard no more, and a few minutes later was flabbergasted when Diana and he suddenly broke upon me from behind the screen of plants. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley There, and in the principal streets, speculators have taken advantage of the rights of man to stop up the side walks with tables on which their wares are displayed. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Our loud laughing at O'Leary's jokes, and his Irish brogue, and our stopping up the pathway, which is here very narrow, brought a crowd about us. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Moreover, he commanded all the artillery of the town to be spoiled, that is to say, nailed and stopped up. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Head's all stopped up with a cold, and these summer colds are awful, I tell you. An Arkansas Planter In one corner was a pile of heather; but there was no way of stopping up the window, and the night was setting in chill. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World This misadventure was caused by a plug of mud which had stopped up the opening of the manometer. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk Just then the officers were called away and the old civilian stopped up the top hole and moved on—no doubt the lower one is there still. Into the Jaws of Death When Satan appears To stop up our path, And fills us with fears, We triumph by faith. Queechy, Volume I And all the company stopped up their ears, except Mr. Crow. The Tale of Major Monkey He had come to the end of the log which Sam had thrown down to stop up the passage way, and there was really no way for him to go. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 Yes, it was a secret stubbornly protected; the tunnel was stopped up, the vault restored to what had been a former strength or weakness, and never a dozen souls to hear the tale. The President A novel But if they do not shun evils on religious principle, because they are sins and against God, the lusts of evil with their enjoyments remain in them like impure waters stopped up or stagnant. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence After their bags were filled the hole was stopped up, and a hasty departure was made. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Therefore in experiments with taste, the nostrils should be stopped up with cotton. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners In the course of our journey the harness of one of the horses rubbed the animal until he was lame, stopping up the wagon. S.O.S. Stand to! I had a hand sprayer, but when I mixed the lime-sulphur and the arsenate of lead it almost stopped up. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 As regards this room the professor drily remarked—"I thought I had noticed that even the key-hole was stopped up, in order to preserve the ladies' delicate nerves from every disagreeable sensation." The Social History of Smoking The varsity line men were not opening up the scrub line as easily as they desired, and we were all stopping up the offensive play of the Varsity. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball If the eyes are affected then the boracic acid wash; if the nose is stopped up, then a good steaming from the kettle. The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog The Nubians say that the Divan is to be held in the Citadel and that the road by which the Memlook Beys left it is not stopped up, though perhaps it goes underground nowadays. Letters from Egypt “There is no need of either of you stopping up your ears,” said Charlotte. The Debtor A Novel |
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