estop

Example Sentences

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He perceived that the object was to estop, by his admissions, any objections to the course pursued in permitting the Taranteens to leave, which he might afterwards be disposed to make.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

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 Lincoln, Abraham

I told him that the children were in the habit of getting them from the meadow beyond, hoping to estop the suggestion I knew was coming.

From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret

By publishing his new libel, you estop yourself from denying me this freedom.

From A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel by Abbot, Francis Ellingwood

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