Use stable in a sentence
Sentences ending with stable
- But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
- A cynical philosopher, who proclaimed his sect by his ragged garment, unkempt hair, and rough mode of speech, declared that Caesar had a senator to guide his chariot because he had long since succeeded in turning the senate-house into a stable. [10]
- He discovered that when he had married his wife--of his own free will as it had seemed to him--he had been no more free than now when they locked him up at night in a stable. [2]
- But she directs us to the stable. [4]
- I remember it twenty years ago when it was housed in a stable. [5]
- They went through the porch and into the stable. [2]
- The sorrel and the chestnut mare travelled together as on one snaffle- bar, step by step, for they were foaled in the same stable. [11]
- The Colonel regaled Stephen, when she was gone, with the pedigree and performance of every horse he had had in his stable. [9]
- But in cow society there is nothing of this detraction in order to get the first place at the crib, or the farther stall in the stable. [4]
- Don' wan' no snappin'-turkles in my stable! [6]
Sentences containing stable two or more times
- There stood the new double mansion Mr. Spencer Catherwood had built two years before on the outskirts of the town, with the wall at the side, and the brick stable and stable yard. [9]
- Adjoining the church, but lower, is a long, low building with three rooms, at once house and stable, the stable in the center, though all of them have hay in the lofts. [4]
More example sentences with the word stable in them
- I know how your Queen receives you; how your honour is as stable as your fief. [11]
- Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
- There was a wire from the house to the coachman's quarters in the stable, and a noble gong alongside his pillow. [5]
- Here it is--I will translate it: 'Brick livery stable, stone foundation, middle of town, corner of Orleans and Market. [5]
- This knightly patrician well knew--as did every lover of horses--the owner of the finest stable in Alexandria, and was quite willing to allow Gorgo and Apuleius to remain with their patient; at the same time he warned them that a great catastrophe was imminent. [10]
- He declared there wasn't a horse in the stable fit to give him exercise. [9]
- The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. [2]
- True, Archibius's stable was full of fine animals, but who was she that she should presume to use them? [10]
- Behind the house was a little stable where four tiny horses with spotted skins, the rarest and prettiest creatures imaginable--a gift from the King of Media--were stamping the ground. [10]
- There was as usual a furious "zephyr" blowing the first night of the brigade's return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. [5]
- She would come tripping into the stable yard, daintily holding up her skirts, and crying, "Oh, Harvey, I have heard so much of Tanglefoot. [9]
- He felt in touch, once more, faintly but perceptibly, with something stable in the chaos. [9]
- Firm and true to what she undertakes, and that which she requires by her own aggrandizement, and regards as being within the strict rules of propriety, she will remain stable and unflinching to the last. [5]
- He went straight to the stable and saddled the mustang. [6]
- Those steps lead to a stable, through which we go to the quarry at the back of the compound. [5]
- The Aults stable themselves that way. [4]
- While we looked, the waters increased so fast in this place that in a few minutes a torrent was roaring by the little stable and its margin encroaching steadily on the logs. [5]
- We drive into the stable, and get down while the fresh horses are put to. [4]
- He sleeps in the stable yonder--and then he will fetch his father. [10]
- I went near the stable where he lived, and shouted to him in my old manner; he shewed no joy, but instantly followed me out walking, and obeyed me, exactly as if I had parted with him only half an hour before. [1]
- Humphrey, just push the stable button, will you? [9]
- Absently he rang the stable bell, surrendered his horse, and followed a footman to the retired part of the house occupied by the railroad president. [9]
- At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking the prisoners in a stable, had gone off to pillage their own stores, several of the soldier prisoners tunneled under the wall and ran away, but were recaptured by the French and shot. [2]
- Ephum, go to the livery stable and get another carriage. [9]
- The expert answered the call, and ran another ground wire to the stable, and established a switch there, so that the coachman could put on and take off the alarm. [5]
- He then carried the body in his arms, and went up the steps, through the stable, and then to the right hand towards a Sahib's bungalow, where Tookaram placed the body near a wall. [5]
- The stable is the best house in the place; there are three or four houses besides, and one of them is white, and has vines growing over the front door, and hollyhocks by the front gate. [4]
- The battered house, the absence of barn or stable or garden, or any token of thrift or energy, marked the man as an excrescence in this theatre of hope and fruitful toil. [11]
- The lightning had struck only the convent barn; the cow stable, when we arrived, was still safe, but the flames soon reached it also. [10]
- There was a stable with a tarred roof in the rear, to be discerned beyond the conventional side lawn that was broken into by the bay window of the dining-room. [9]
- He had no stable place among the men of all nations, and yet secret rites and mysteries and a language which was known from Bokhara to Wandsworth, and from Waikiki to Valparaiso, gave him dignity of a kind, clothed him with importance. [11]
- Going into a stable he saw four dead soldiers, and three desperately wounded, placed with their backs against the wall. [3]
- Outstretched upon the stable floor lay Blake, ghastly white--dead--one hand clutching a gun and the other twisted in his bloody blouse. [13]
- You'll find aout'z soon 'z y' go into that 'ere stable o' yourn! [6]
- But first take some food to the groom in the stable, and put fresh linen on my bed. [10]
- Mr. Tiernan alone seemed stable in a chaotic world. [9]
- Then he glanced round the stable, patted the sleek necks and shoulders of his favorite horses, and decided that 'Nura' and 'Victory to Thebes' should bear him into the battle on the morrow. [10]
- He took a rope from the stable with him, mounted his horse, and set forth in the direction of the Institute. [6]
- I was not reluctant to undertake the hard work, yet I felt like a colt which is led from the pastures to the stable. [10]
- There is no regular livery stable in Honolulu, or, indeed, in any part of the Kingdom of Hawaii; therefore unless you are acquainted with wealthy residents (who all have good horses), you must hire animals of the wretchedest description from the Kanakas. [5]
- Mr. Catherwood's Ben, reeking of the stable, had brought the rumor of the marching on the camp into the dining-room, and close upon the heels of this the rumble of the drums and the passing of Sigel's regiment. [9]
- Suppose two persons quarrel about a purchase of land, and one builds a stable on his lot so as to shut out his neighbor's view of the sea. [4]
- Here was a quaint stone horse-mill, a stable, or a barn set uncouthly on the street; a baker's shop, with a glimpse of the white-capped baker through the shaded doorway, and an appetizing smell of hot bread in the air. [9]
- Mr. Escott notices primogeniture as one of the stable and, curious enough, one of the democratic institutions of society. [4]
- The windows looked out on a little alley, and over that into a stable and some poultry and pig yards in the rear of some tenement-houses. [5]
- My lady giving orders to her respectful servitors, and driving down the avenue in her luxurious turnout, is not at all the same person in feeling that she would be if dragged about in a dissolute-looking hack whose driver has the air of the stable. [4]
- At eleven o'clock only the roof of the little log stable was out of water, and our inn was on an island in mid-ocean. [5]
- He is the one, and he used Janes, the livery stable keeper, the politician who brought the dynamite to Hampton, as his tool. [9]
- Even the weather-vane on the Manor--the gold Cock of Beaugard, as it was called--did not move; and the stamping of a horse in the stable was like the thunderous knock of a traveller from Beyond. [11]
- The saddle hangs on Tara's walls down below in the stable, and the machine is at Bliss's grimly pursuing its appointed mission, slowly and implacably rotting away another man's chances for salvation. [5]
- For Uncle Tom on a summer's day to hire a surrey at Braintree's Livery Stable and drive thither was like--to what shall that bliss be compared in these days when we go to Europe with indifference? [9]
- Close to the old river bed just spoken of, stood a little log stable, and in this our horses were lodged. [5]
- But when the old clock on the stable was striking twelve, he opened his eyes wide, and when it had stopped, he said: 'It is always twelve by the clock that stops at noon. [11]
- Doors and windows of the stable were open wide and had a deserted look. [13]
- The little hut of the lime-burner was beyond in a hollow, and behind that again was a lean-to, like a small shed or stable. [11]
- On one side of the house was a little stable, just the size for the pony, with a little room over it, just the size for Kit. [12]
- The whole structure of the government is firm and stable. [7]
- There was plenty of hunting in the forests, we had spirited horses in the stable, and, wild lad that I was, I rarely went voluntarily into the school-room, the grey-haired teacher, Lorenz, had to catch me, if he wanted to get possession of me. [10]
- Lieutenant-General-and-Senator Peleg Hartington of Brampton, in his office over the livery stable, shook his head like a mournful stork when questioned by brother officers from afar. [9]
- He got out of bed soon after daylight, dressed, and went to the stable and hitched his horse to the buggy. [11]
- Of course he obeyed my wish, and as it struggled he dragged it out of the stable with his strong arms. [10]
- If the deer, now, could only have been caught I No doubt there were tenderhearted people in the valley who would have spared her life, shut her up in a stable, and petted her. [4]
- It is a noble lot of blooded stock and worth no end of money, but they must stand in the stable and be profitless. [5]
- Mr. Blenkiron has never known a mare reject a horse; but this has occurred in Mr. Wright's stable, so that the mare had to be cheated. [1]
- Mr. Rathbone and myself soon made the acquaintance of the chief of the stable department. [6]
- But, turning on my homely bed, I looked up and saw the deep quiet of the skies, the stable peace of the stars, and I was a son of the good Earth again, a sojourner in the tents of Home. [11]
- A few minutes more and she had slipped through the stable and the gate by which they drove the cattle in; and no longer mistress of herself, was flying up the mountain to the grotto of Mithras to warn Phoebicius. [10]
- Would it frighten men, rendering their position less stable in their own eyes, or would it feminize them--that is, make them retiring, blushing, self-conscious beings? [4]
- On reaching the Marienthurm she learned that only a barn and a cow stable had b@en destroyed by the flames. [10]
- Now Paris is made a theatre where the people whom Louis and his nobles would have died to save have turned every street into a stable of carnage, every prison and hospital into a vast charnel-house. [11]
- The lights had long been extinguished; as he approached, dogs barked in the yards, and the melancholy lowing of a cow echoed from many a stable. [10]
- Just then the livery stable man brought in his bill for six weeks' keeping--stall-room for the horse, fifteen dollars; hay for the horse, two hundred and fifty! [5]
- She insisted on leaving her horse there instead of putting him in the stable. [9]
- The stable-keeper, who, it may be remembered, once exchanged a few playful words with Mr. Gridley, got a hint from some of these unfeeling young men, and offered the resources of his stable to the youth supposed to be in peril. [6]
- We waded knee-deep into the log stable, unfastened the horses and waded out almost waist-deep, so fast the waters increased. [5]
- As they stood in the starlight on the platform of the deserted little station while he went across to Whelen's livery stable to get a carriage, Mrs. Holt remarked to Honora: "Mr. Brent is a fascinating man, my dear. [9]
- Somebody has been in the stable. [4]
- How comes Barbara in the stable, of all places in the world? [12]
- So I lingered in no little anxiety behind the Peters stable while he made the investigation. [9]
- She drove her horse on to the floor of Mr. Sherman's stable, that gentleman himself gallantly assisting her to alight, and walked homeward through the lane. [9]
- At five o'clock his stylish trap was sent around from the boarding stable, and we drove in the Park till twilight. [4]
- Mr. Richard rode his horse quietly round to the stable, put him up, and proceeded towards the house. [6]
- John goes to his chores, and gets through the stable as soon as he can, for that must be done; but when it comes to the out-door work, that rather drags. [4]
- Behind these was hidden the stable. [9]
- Jerd came to her with the key of the great door of the stone stable, and to make his daily report about the horses. [13]
- Disprove this theft"--he held up the will--"of concealment, and enjoyment of property not your own, and then ask of me that politeness which makes so beautiful stable and forge at Pontiac. [11]
- The next year he was shut up in a stable, and then the hens all courted his rival. [1]
- Without a word he led her across the wide yard to the rise of the ground upon which the stable stood. [13]
- The examination I have just made appears to indicate that the main conditions of your health are more stable than they were some months ago, and would therefore be so far in favor of your going to America in the summer, as we talked of. [6]
- I believe there has been as yet discovered no other basis of government so safe, so stable as popular suffrage, but the fathers never contemplated a suffrage without intelligence. [4]
- Big Tom's plantation has an openwork stable, an ill-put-together frame house, with two rooms and a kitchen, and a veranda in front, a loft, and a spring-house in the rear. [4]
- Then, when I had commanded Endres to open the great gate, I bowed my head low and rode out through the stable door, and bade the company a hearty good-day. [10]
- There is one friend he has not seen yet, and as he cannot be conveniently introduced into the family circle, by reason of his being an iron-shod quadruped, Kit takes the first opportunity of slipping away and hurrying to the stable. [12]
- Quijada had selected four of her own saddle horses for the stable of the little castle, and supplied it with the necessary servants. [10]
- In short, I found myself suddenly provided for, and I lost no time in getting my weary mount into Mr. Wright's little stable. [9]
- The barracks intended for the soldiers and bodyguard stood nearer to the city, as well as the stable buildings, which were divided from the palace by the garden which surrounded it. [10]
- Two beautiful riding-horses for ladies' use and elegant trappings had been found in the baron's stable. [10]
- This production, the first fruits of which are so engaging in quality, cannot grow and broaden into a stable, varied literature without scholarship and hard work, and without a sympathetic local audience. [4]
- If you are ever in Brampton, you can still see the stage, if you care to go into the back of what was once Jim Sanborn's livery stable, now owned by Mr. Sherman of the Brampton House. [9]
- It has successfully eliminated a great number of proximate compounds, more or less stable, from organic structures. [3]
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