"Standstill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... found the handkerchief, and pointed to two or three footsteps, impressed into the clayey margin, and tending towards the water. Beneath its shallow verge, among the water-weeds, there were further traces, as yet unobliterated by the sluggish current, which was there almost at a standstill. Silas Foster thrust his face down close to these footsteps, and picked up a shoe that had escaped my observation, being half imbedded ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... by this time the cyclist is almost at a standstill and is also zigzagging from one side to the other, waiting and muttering. The pedestrian seems to give up all possibility of escape, faces the rider, both arms extended, jumps from one foot to the other, and the two collide. The cyclist ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... letter, and that might hurt him. How could he guess it was only a scolding letter, such as it would grieve him to receive, and that it does not count for anything! Were it to Frederick Snow, now— There! some horses are so hard to pull up—and so are some pens. I will come to a standstill, but not before ...
— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green
... man with the patch. "I implore you to unsay that, your highness. Your coach was quite at a standstill before we knew of its presence. You do ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... from San Antonio to the City of Mexico our train ran into one of the sand-storms, for which the Mexican country is famous at certain times of the year; and we were at a standstill on a side track at a small station for twenty-four hours. The food was execrable, the wind and sand were choking, and the whole experience trying in the extreme. We were warned against thieves of ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
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