As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses in hand, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers.

The women, keeping their voices low as they worked around the house or sat in the living room, sounded like chickens shut up in a coop for the night.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

He sat for a while with his hands on his knees, watching the bend of her back as she gathered up her things -- a comb, a bottle of aspirin -- to take upstairs and pack.

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

`` I'll try '', I said, and sat for a moment thinking.

We sat for a while drinking in silence.

Moreland sat brooding for a full minute, during which I made each of us a new drink.

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.

they just sat back on their haunches and cried for more, as though they could never get enough.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

I sat waiting for Life to come along and sweep me up.

He added backs to the benches on which students sat, improved lighting and heating, de-emphasized rote learning, and provided individual slates to each student — paid for by himself.

Communities would come together for an entire day of singing in a large building where they sat in four distinct areas surrounding an open space, one member directing the group as a whole.

A sebaceous cyst on the left side of his nose caused him to be mocked by some of his contemporaries, and he sat for photographs and portraits with the right side of his face most prominent.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

Modigliani painted a series of portraits of contemporary artists and friends in Montparnasse: Chaim Soutine, Moise Kisling, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marie " Marevna " Vorobyev-Stebeslka, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and Jean Cocteau, all sat for stylized renditions.

Known for special guest appearances, Bootsy Collins, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jimmy Destri, Mike Watt, Rah Digga and Gary Lucas are some of the artists who have sat in with the group during live performances.

After his return, he moved to Detroit, Illinois and then Chicago, where he sat in with many notable artists, including Muddy Waters and Little Walter.

Noel Gallagher sat on a panel in 2004 to decide on the most influential of pop artists to be included in the UK Music Hall of Fame, and was quoted as saying " Beatles inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.

Five artists, Jules Bastien-Lepage, a realist painter, Antonin Proust, defensor of the vanguard who Gambetta had named Minister of Beaux-Arts, Léon Bonnat, an academic painter, Alexandre Falguière, who did his mortuary mask, and his personal photographer Étienne Carjat all sat at his death-bed, making five widely different representations of him which were each published by the press the following day.

Two more meetings were called by Johnson in the following weeks, including the Seating-Meeting at New York ’ s Finch College, about which John Gruen reported: “ It was … attended by many artists and ‘ members ’ … all of whom sat around wondering when the meeting would start.

Saxophonist Greg Orsby joined the group for various concerts, particularly toward the end of the tour, and guest artists including Page McConnell and Dickey Betts sat in for individual sets.

ABKCO sat on the entire catalog of music from artists such as Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker.

From 1971 until the late 1990s, Pier 21 sat as little-used warehouse space, although the former immigration quarters did provide popular studio and workshop space for artists.

In the early 1990s, WLUW attracted the attention of a few major recording artists who sat down for on-air interviews at the Pearson street studio.

" Sometimes I think the guest artists must come in and think we don't like each other, because we can be sat in make-up bickering away and it must look quite odd.

I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on which the sultans sat cross-legged.

Paschasinus further ordered the reinstatement of Theodoret and that he be given a seat, but this move caused such an uproar among the council fathers, that Theodoret also sat in the nave, though he was given a vote in the proceedings, which began with a trial of Dioscorus.

Never was there such a dame school as ours, so firm and kind and smelling of galoshes, with the sweet and fumbled music of the piano lessons drifting down from upstairs to the lonely schoolroom, where only the sometimes tearful wicked sat over undone sums, or to repent a little crime — the pulling of a girl's hair during geography, the sly shin kick under the table during English literature.

Sigyn, Loki's wife, sat with him holding a basin beneath the dripping venom, yet when the basin became full, she carried the poison away ; and during this time the poison dripped on to Loki, causing him to writhe with such violence that all of the earth shook from the force, resulting in what are now known as earthquakes.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

'" It has also been noted that he had Moses seated on a throne, yet Moses was neither a King nor ever sat on such thrones.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

The Court first sat on 30 January 1922 at the Peace Palace, The Hague, covering preliminary business during the first session ( such as establishing procedure and appointing officers ) Nine judges sat, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Ruy Barbosa and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washington Naval Conference.

This duty allowance was limited to 20, 000 florins a year for the judges and 30, 000 florins for the Vice-President ; as such, it provided for 200 days of court hearings, with no allowance provided if the court sat for longer.

English developed from such a reordering language, and still bears traces of this word order, for example in locative inversion (" In the garden sat a cat ") and some clauses beginning with negative expressions: " only " (" only then do we find X "), " not only " (" not only did he storm away, but he also slammed the door "), " under no circumstances " (" under no circumstances are the students allowed to use a mobile phone "), " on no account " and the like.

Streeter invited such contractors to dump their rubble on the sandbar where the Reutan sat, extending the size of his land considerably.

Thus, there is no such thing as a sentence, term, expression or word symbolically representing a single true meaning ; it is underspecified ( which cat sat on which mat?

For the most part, however, an amphora was tableware, or sat close to the table, was intended to be seen, and was finely decorated as such by master painters.

Chiefs and headmen sat at the pinnacle of this hierarchy in the past, though today such figures have very little power in their own right.

Some arcade games, such as racing games, are designed to be sat in or on.

A team of operators sat at a control booth on the ground below the machine, from which they could simulate weather conditions such as wind or cloud.

Samuel Pepys, no friend of Rupert's, sat on the Tangier Committee with him and later declared that all Rupert did was to laugh and swear occasionally: other records, such as those of the Foreign Affairs Committee, show him taking a full and active role in proceedings.

In production order, she hides her growing belly in some subtle ways such as putting a pillow over her stomach when she sat down.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

He attended an indoor melee with his father and acted in a mummery with his father, and the likes of the much older Charles Brandon and Nicholas Carew, who would later prove to be such enemies of the little boy ( Brandon sat on the jury which tried him and Carew helped coach Jane Seymour on how best to win the king's heart ).

... such was the power and wisdom and integrity in those that sat at the helm, and their diligence in chusing men only for their merit was blessed with such success, that in two years our fleets grew to be as famous as our land armies ; the reputation and power of our nation rose to a greater height, than when we possessed the better half of France, and the kings of France and Scotland were our prisoners.