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put a stop to

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put a stop to something

to stop something. I wish I could put a stop to those annoying phone calls.

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All places submitted to the Mahometan, whose insolence increased every day with his power; and nothing after the defeat of the Portuguese was supposed able to put a stop to the progress of his arms. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context But what all England did not know De Vac had gleaned from scraps of conversation dropped in the armory: that Henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, and with Louis IX of France, for a sufficient force of knights and menat-arms to wage a relentless war upon his own barons that he might effectively put a stop to all future interference by them with the royal prerogative of the Plantagenets to misrule England. The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context Vronsky said something silly, which it was easy to put a stop to, and I answered as I ought to have done. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context More results

References in classic literature

All places submitted to the Mahometan, whose insolence increased every day with his power; and nothing after the defeat of the Portuguese was supposed able to put a stop to the progress of his arms.

A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context

But what all England did not know De Vac had gleaned from scraps of conversation dropped in the armory: that Henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, and with Louis IX of France, for a sufficient force of knights and menat-arms to wage a relentless war upon his own barons that he might effectively put a stop to all future interference by them with the royal prerogative of the Plantagenets to misrule England.

The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

Vronsky said something silly, which it was easy to put a stop to, and I answered as I ought to have done.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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