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The college had opened this year with an increased enrollment of twenty-five; and though West privately felt certain that his successor was only reaping where he himself had sown, you could not be certain that the low world would so see it. As for the Post, it was a mere stop-gap, a momentary halting-place where he preened for a far higher flight.
"Play careful cricket, Saurin," said Robarts as he passed him; "the great thing is to keep Crawley at the wicket as long as we can." "A likely story!" he thought to himself as he strode across the turf, "to make myself a mere foil and stop-gap for that conceited brute!
At the beginning of the campaign against infant mortality, the crèche and the sterilized milk dépôt and the fractional analysis of cow's milk and its recomposition in suitable proportions of proteid, fat, etc., as devised by Rotch, were rightly acclaimed and admitted to save vast numbers of infant lives. All this is mere stop-gap, wonderfully effective, no doubt, but only stop-gap nevertheless.
MARSHAL. But I have much, my dearest, most excellent friend! FERDINAND. Thou, wretch thou? What hast thou to do, but to play the stop-gap, where honest men keep aloof! To stretch or shrink seven times in an instant, like the butterfly on a pin? To be privy registrar in chief and clerk of the jordan? To be the cap-and-bell buffoon on which your master sharpens his wit? Well, well, let it be so.
She was gone before I recognised that the precious thing she had given me was a sprig of Rosemary. It was by the merest accident that we gathered that delightful piece of information on our first trip to England, not quite three years after we were married. I did not know that "The Mulberry Bush" had been revived for a few weeks as a stop-gap, until we saw the boards outside the theatre.
Meyer's work was quite immaterial to him; it was badly paid, and he only did it as a stop-gap. But it was disgusting to think they could buy his convictions with badly-paid work! And there they stood not daring to show their colors, as if it wasn't enough to support such a fellow with their skill and energy!
At that moment La Mothe felt the bridle of Grey Roland pushed into his hand with a "Hold that a moment, monsieur," and Jean Saxe's stop-gap crossed to the Dauphin's side. "Your pardon, Monseigneur," he said, stooping, "there is a buckle loose, if your Highness would lift your leg a moment while I fasten it." "A buckle? Where?"
Villon had joined La Mothe at the window, and was peering out at the stir of men and horses in the open space between the inn and the castle gates. "Saxe, what man of yours is that who is bitting Grey Roland? I don't know his face." "A stop-gap," answered Saxe indifferently. "A gipsy fellow I think he is by his colour.
Now, hear me, drop that meeting out of your mind. I'll look after it." But Saturday came and, in spite of every effort on Barney's part, he found no one for the service at Bull Crossing next day. There was still a slight hope that one of the officials of the congregation would consent to be a stop-gap for the day. "I guess I'll have to take that service myself, Margaret," said Barney laughingly.
Just lay outside your door and whined and whined his poor little heart out. . . ." The motherly old woman stooped to pat the dog's head, and Binks licked her fingers once to show that he was grateful for what she'd done. But and this was a big but she was only a stop-gap. Now and with another scurry of feet, he was once again jumping round the only one who really mattered.
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