At this time the railway mania was at its height, and Thackeray took his share in Punch in Stemming the fatal tide, so far as ridicule could be used to do so.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Here, really, was an opportunity of Stemming the current of her income without shocking any of her social instincts!
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton
This bent of mine was whispering to me then to throw wide the window, and, Stemming their noisy plaudits, announce to them the truth of what had passed.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini