1 "But I will not have anybody use the word 'stunt' in my house," she whispered to Miss Sherwin.
2 The circle of mourners kept its place all evening, and Dave Dyer did the "stunt" of the Norwegian and the hen.
3 I'm not going to do the out-raged husband stunt.
4 Child-labor is to be found here in some of its worst phases, as fostering ignorance and stunting physical development.
5 Halfway down the hill the path ran near a knot of stunted hollies, which in the general darkness of the scene stood as the pupil in a black eye.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 6 Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 7 An orchard surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual upon the moor, were stunted and nipped, and the effect of the whole place was mean and melancholy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 8 I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 9 A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 10 I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree.
11 In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
12 As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses.
13 He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 14 All the guests moved their lips in anticipation of being called on for their own stunts.
15 There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks's parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration.