Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

They all sat around and drank ice water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time.

Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

We had just sat down.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!

if Tommy sat long enough, she would be sure to see all the young officers she had met in San Diego and Long Beach.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

I got her into bed, and sat with her until she had sobbed herself out.

stating, " I finally sat down and had written it and somebody had made it into a movie, and I felt like — well, that's not quite her.

" He recalls :... while I sat alone staring at the sea I love, words I had not been certain I could understand or say fell from my lips: " Lord Jesus, I believe in You.

A new section of the Circus was designated for seating the senators, who previously had sat among the general public.

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

In an attempt to resolve the difficulty and slowness of transmitting orders to the frontier, the new capitals of the Tetrarchic era were all much closer to the Empire's frontiers than Rome had been: Trier sat on the Rhine, Sirmium and Serdica were close to the Danube, Thessaloniki was on the route leading eastward, and Nicomedia and Antioch were important points in dealings with Persia.

" If I had sat still, I'd probably still be measuring cosmic rays, the subject of my thesis at Princeton.

His first wife died in 1845, and on 16 August 1846, he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of Judith and Holofernes.

Though the show had respectable ratings ( it sat at # 16 for the 1970-71 season ), it was dropped in July 1971 by CBS as part of the so-called " Rural Purge " ( along with fellow country-themed shows The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R. F. D.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

He asked, as he often did, and I had as often let him be on the tractor beside me.

The boy skipped along beside me, and he was contented with what he had done.

Then there had been another head beside his own.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

Orient < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s captain Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca was also wounded, struck in the face by flying debris and knocked unconscious, while his twelve-year old son had a leg torn off by a cannonball as he stood beside his father.

The only lower house to have had a designated table was Caven, in the northwest corner beside the alumni table.

For he said, " I am God and there is no other God beside me ," for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come.

Loki " takes the horn ," drinks it, and says that she would be, if it were so, and states that Sif had a lover beside Thor, namely, Loki himself ( an event that is otherwise unattested ).

Another ancient earth creature that had to be overcome was the dragon Pytho, or Python, which lived in a cleft of the mother-rock beneath Delphi and beside the Castalian Spring.

He had a guard of two hundred chieftains lodged in rooms beside his own, only some of whom were permitted to speak to him.

Again and again, with the Greek text in front of me and the NIV beside it, I discovered that the translators had another principle, considerably higher than the stated one: to make sure that Paul should say what the broadly Protestant and evangelical tradition said he said .... f a church only, or mainly, relies on the NIV it will, quite simply, never understand what Paul was talking about.

Although the debate tended toward a condemnation of Molinism's insistence on free will to the detriment of efficacious grace, the important influence of the Jesuit Order — among other considerations — which, beside important political and theological power in Europe, had also various missions abroad ( Jesuit Reducciones in South America, missions in China, etc.

His people were able to discover over time, for example, if there was space for large steamer trunks, if light switches needed to be added beside the beds to prevent injury, etc., before hundreds of state rooms had been built into the ship.

A massive birch tree standing atop a burial mound and located beside a farm in western Norway is recorded as having had ale poured over its roots during festivals.

The study revealed that illness was significantly associated with playing in the sand in a picnic area beside a stream where animals had access.

He had students amongst the Roman Senate beside Castricius, such as Marcellus Orontius, Sabinillus, and Rogantianus.

Their limbs had nowise been disturbed, and beside them were placed lamps of gold and of silver.