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If you don't take to politics in the end, I think you should let them put you in now, if only as a stop-gap, or we shall get some one whom it may not be easy to get rid of." "There's something in that, but I can't accept without knowing my position, and I would not utter a word to disturb my mother till it occurs to her of herself." "Now that Frank is better?" "No.
Of defects did the spirit of those Saviours consist; but into every defect had they put their illusion, their stop-gap, which they called God. In their pity was their spirit drowned; and when they swelled and o'erswelled with pity, there always floated to the surface a great folly.
"And now?" inquired this daughter of Eve, looking at the portrait. "My maternal aunt," replied Turner, making a gesture with two fingers, as if introducing his client to the portrait. "You keep her, one may suppose, as a stop-gap between the dynasties. It is so safe a maternal aunt!" "One cannot hang a republic on the wall, however much one may want to." "Then you are a Royalist?" inquired Mrs.
This was not what Felix had been trying to think of, but it was a tolerable stop-gap. Mr. Brand frowned as much as a man can frown who has very fair, soft eyebrows, and, beneath them, very gentle, tranquil eyes. "No, I have not preached any sermon to-day. Did you bring me over here for the purpose of making that inquiry?"
Moral authority, which must proceed from consent of the governed, the Irish Government had not possessed for many a long day; but its legal status had been unimpeachable. Now even that was gone; it was merely a stop-gap contrivance, carrying on till the Act of Parliament should receive fulfilment; and, as a bare matter of fact, it was powerless.
The whole piece was turned topsy-turvy, so that the stop-gap intermediate scenes became the principal and important part of the business.
I go to the courts nearly every day, and hang about chief clerks' and judges' chambers; and go to the theatre once a week with the "paper" supplied to the office. Do I call this a profession? No, merely a stop-gap which allows me to live and wait for something to turn up.
"It does; if it isn't good enough " "You don't understand me. That's what would make it all right." "Make what all right?" "My accepting if you really only want a stop-gap." "I see," said Jewdwine to himself, "the youth has tasted liberty, and he objects to being caught and caged." "The question is," said Rickman, sinking into thought again, "whether you really want me."
As to the seven years' franchise offered under the pretence and colour of meeting Sir Alfred Milner's demand, it had clearly been intended to serve as a decoy and stop-gap pending the contemplated war of conquest, and to mask Bond duplicity while further preparations were to be completed in diplomacy abroad and in the seditious conspiracy in the Colonies.
Most aged people of vehement spirit and not too keen intellect, adopt a saying as a stop-gap or resting-place, and he was fond of using two phrases one of which ran: "As sure as man is the standard of all things" and the other referring to his house "As sure as I long to be quit of this lumber."
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