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.

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.

Once many years ago I sat at dinner next to Arthur Train, and the subject of The Nation came up.

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.

Abel sat and regarded the farm country which, spreading out from both sides of the road, rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields.

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.

One afternoon, as the women sat clucking softly, a new carload of people pulled up at the gate.

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.

The manager sat behind the group so he could see and count the hands that went up, and the director wrote the numbers on the blackboard.

Conrad hung up and sat on the small telephone-booth bench, massaging his right leg.

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

He sat up and watched as they pulled themselves over the stern.

I waited a few minutes and she sat up.

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

Halfway up the staircase she stopped and sat down.

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

Before midnight he speeded his heart, resumed normal breathing, ran down his check list, uncurled and sat up.

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

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

When rowing, the crew sat on sea chests ( chests containing their personal possessions ) that would otherwise take up space.

Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a dung chair containing a hole called sedia stercoraria, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before announcing " Duos habet et bene pendentes " (" He has two, and they dangle nicely "), or " habet " (" he has ' em ") for short.

On Media Day, Duane Thomas refused to answer any questions and sat silently until his required time was up.

In the film Bab ' Aziz, directed by Nacer Khemir, a Narcissus like character was portrayed by an ancient prince who sat by a pond for days after days and looked at the reflection of his own soul.

Graves was travelling in a Diligence in the Alps when a man who looked like the mate of a ship got in, sat beside him, and soon took from his pocket a note-book across which his hand from time to time passed with the rapidity of lightning.

" There is one abode called Hliðskjálf, and when Allfather sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw.

In the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál, the god Freyr sat on the high seat Hlidskjalf and looked into all worlds.

:::" The heavy iron door closed behind me .... I sat on my bed, looked around the room and started to take in my new social circumstances … In my hand luggage which I brought with me were my already printed or only started works on my cosmic problem ; there was even some blank paper.

Deodato had to produce evidence that the " impaled " actress was alive in the aftermath of the scene, and had to further explain how the special effect was done: the actress sat on a bicycle seat mounted to a pole while she looked up and held a short stake of balsa wood in her mouth.

Most notably, the movie's title is a reference to the fourth and most sinister of God's avenging angels of the Apocalypse who rides a pale horse, as told in The Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 8: " And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

The Indian Express concurred that this was successful: " The lady has not just looked glamorous but she has walked with poise, sat with grace, smiled with composure and spoke with calmness.

in English: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

* Charles entered the hall, looked around, took off his coat and sat down.

The next day, as Yan's army lined up on the battlefield, Guan sat with Cao on a hilltop and looked down.

In the short story " More Light ", in which James Blish presented his version of a complete text of the play The King in Yellow, Carcosa was described as having four singularities: that it appeared overnight, that no one could tell whether it sat upon the waters of Lake Hali or beyond them on the unseen farther shore, that the rising moon appeared to be in front of the city's towers rather than behind them, and that one knew the city's name to be Carcosa the moment one looked upon it.

In search of a secluded place, he sat beside the " Father of Waters ", or Mississippi River, and encountered a man who looked similar to Greco San Pablo.

Vernon had to be protected and returned to something resembling the days when George Washington sat on his colonnaded porch and looked across the Potomac.

They sat across the room from each other, and he looked up her skirt.

He sat as vice-chairman in the parliamentary inquiry commission that looked into the investigative methods used by the Dutch interregional police force, leading to the resignation in 1994 of the Minister for Internal Affairs, Ed van Thijn.

In his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan describes first encountering Grossman at the Gaslight cafe: " He looked like Sydney Greenstreet from the film The Maltese Falcon, had an enormous presence, always dressed in a conventional suit and tie, and he sat at his corner table.

His face looked as black as thunder as he sat himself down at the other end of the tent with his back toward Abu Rafi.

After King Yeongjo's death and on the day that he became the King of Joseon, he sat on his throne in the throne room and looked at everyone and said, " I am the son of the late Crown Prince Sado ..." A bold statement that sent shivers to all the politicians who were complicit in his father's death.