estop

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I replied, "O my lord, can a slipper estop the flowing of a water that feedeth a Hammam?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But are expressions of this sort, are mere supplications uttered under duress, to estop every person who utters them, and all his posterity to the end of time, from asking for entire justice?

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Sige's theoretical knowledge of war and his experience were then felt to be so overshadowing to everybody else's as to estop criticism.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John

All these inhibitory influences which generally produce negation do not estop Mr. Hughes.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

Such was alien to his kindly nature; and if it had not been, there were other causes to estop him from any such indulgence.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry