estop
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Oh, we estop sometimes, but no for long.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
By voting for our opponents, such of us as do it in some measure estop ourselves to complain of their acts, however glaringly wrong we may believe them to be.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln
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 John McElroy
No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
He must have destroyed the usefulness of the catboat and thus estopped the flight of the fugitives by that means.
From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Every stilted phrase, every estopping, restraining word of its redundancy, was like a bar between him and his hopes.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
