He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

Dr. Louis Lalaurie stood on the veranda at the head of the driveway and watched his carriage as it approached the pillared mansion.

Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.

He stood there staring with disbelief at the vacant desk.

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

He saw no life, but still stood there for a time peering at the unlovely hills, his gaze continually returning to Papa-san.

He stood very still, his arms at his sides, staring up at the heavens, then down at the blinking lights below.

Inside, as soon as Mr. Skopas had disclosed -- in a hoarse whisper -- the detective's errand, his family gathered in a huddle, forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace.

He moved over to the desk and stood looking at the papers on it but not touching anything.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

Then he stood back to look at Mr. Jack, who was pulling on his pigskin gloves.

He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.

Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

I closed the last bag and stood all three at the door for the bellboy to pick up, then went to the bathroom for a drink of water.

The elderly chauffeur, immaculate in a dark uniform, stood stiffly at attention holding open the door of the town car.

I put in new batteries so as to be certain I'd have plenty of power and on my way out walked over to the regular parking stalls and stood looking at them thoughtfully.

The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside door was a hundred miles.

The guard stood in the shadow of the stockade wall just out of reach of the moonlight.

The two men in overalls stood just behind the blonde-headed man.

They stood there, just the two of them, in the rocking, shattering blast.

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

As the huts stood on brick pillars, workmen just winched it back into position while work continued inside.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

One of the most notable features of the building was the Axum Obelisk which stood in front of the agency seat, although just outside of the territory allocated to FAO by the Italian Government.

Military aid more than doubled to reach just under US $ 9 million by FY 1981, surged to more than US $ 31 million by FY 1982, and stood at US $ 48. 3 million in FY 1983.

Israel ’ s heart “ stood still ” and just couldn ’ t believe what he was hearing.

At Keynes's death, in 1946, his worth stood just short of £ 500, 000 – equivalent to about £ 11 million ($ 16. 5 million ) in 2009.

Even as an adult, Kenna stood just 5 foot 1 inch ( 156 cm ) tall.

Heinlein ’ s work on Campbell ’ s All was considerably more than just a re-slanting ; Campbell ’ s story was felt to be unpublishable as it stood, written in a pseudo-archaic dialect ( with occasional inconsistencies ), with no scientific explanations for the apparently miraculous powers of the American super-weapons.

He just stood there beating time and keeping watch.

It stood just west of the medieval town and was founded by James I ( 1406 – 1437 ) in the early 15th century.

The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 metre ( 3. 3 feet ) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms ( 55 pounds ), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death.

At the time, Caine's working class Cockney, just as with the Beatles ' Liverpudlian accents, stood out to American and British audiences alike.

At the time of Secretariat's death, the veterinarian who performed the necropsy, Dr. Thomas Swerczek, head pathologist at the University of Kentucky, did not weigh Secretariat's heart, but stated, " We just stood there in stunned silence.

In a re-run that same evening, Hary finally set the world record, which stood for just 24 days, but this performance stood as a European record for eight years less one day.

Behind the new strategy stood the idea of taking the offensive to push Communism back rather than just defensively containing it.

He stood just at the wall of Thebes at the siege of Thebes and shouted that Zeus himself could not stop him from invading it.

One of only three Frank Lloyd Wright houses built in Virginia once stood at 1005 Locust Street, Falls Church ( just outside current city limits, in Fairfax County ).

* the Great Barrier Reef coastline myth ( told to Dixon ) in Yarrabah, just south of Cairns, telling of a past coastline ( since flooded ) which stood at the edge of the current Great Barrier Reef, and naming places now completely submerged after the forest types and trees that once grew there.