She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

He half sat up and scratched at the hair on his forehead and then, more vigorously, between his legs.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.

Mr. Podger sat down in it, pushed himself back and forth in one or two slow, rhythmic motions, and then swung his feet up into it.

Harold put a teaspoonful of powdered coffee in his cup and filled it with hot water, and then, stirring, he sat back in his chair.

Moreland went over to stare at his peacocks again, and then came back and sat down, restively.

She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.

It was in 1814 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager fire in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place even then.

Eddie stood up abruptly, then sat down just as abruptly.

He was sitting while braiding palm leaves, then he stood up to pray, and again he sat to weave.

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.

What exactly happened during and after the battle is a matter of some controversy, but the immediate outcome was that Jumonville was injured in the initial attack and then was killed-whether tomahawked by Tanacharison in cold blood or somehow shot by another onlooker with a musket as the injured man sat with Washington is not completely clear.

His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835.

* 1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan ; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.

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.

Sometimes they wept, sometimes they mourned in words ; then sat silent, hand in hand ; he sick in bed, and she the carefullest nurse to him that can be imagined.

For example, if Jane is a compatibilist and she has just sat down on the sofa, then she is committed to the claim that she could have remained standing, if she had so desired.

The four students purchased small items in other parts of the store and kept their receipts, then sat down at the lunch counter and asked to be served.

One of his final public appearances came on 29 April 2002, when at the age of 90 he sat alongside the then prime minister Tony Blair and the three other surviving former prime ministers at the time at Buckingham Palace for a dinner which formed part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, alongside his daughter Margaret, Baroness Jay, who had served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001.

Keitel then sat on the Army " Court of honour " that handed over many officers who were involved, including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, to Roland Freisler's notorious People's Court.

Bryant then got in his car and sat there for a few moments before getting out again and moving back to the coaches.

Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his body in his hand to distribute, and that “ if every host consecrated at the altar were the Lord ’ s body, then there be 20, 000 Gods in England .” A further court in St Paul ’ s, London, presided over by Archbishop Thomas Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smithfield, the tournament ground just outside the city walls.

Referring to Mark 16: 19 (" So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

It is claimed that the Eldridge sat for some time in full view of men aboard the ship, whereupon the Eldridge vanished from their sight, and then reappeared in Philadelphia at the site it had originally occupied.

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.