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He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.
The man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.
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 stood very still, his arms at his sides, staring up at the heavens, then down at the blinking lights below.
She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.
She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.
She stood indecisively for a moment, then walked down the hall ; ;
When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.
Pete stood by with a slide and took the smear, sent it down to the lab with a request for the test.
Eddie stood up abruptly, then sat down just as abruptly.
I let the engine idle then, and I got down and went around the wheel and stood beside it.
When the Church of St. Luke in the Fields was founded in 1820 it stood in fields south of the road ( now Christopher Street ) that led from Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) down to a landing on the North River.
Dissent within the ranks of his own Golkar party and the military finally weakened Suharto, and on 21 May he stood down from power.
He stood down at the 2001 general election.
Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.
In a much publicized wartime tragedy, the sinking of the USAT Dorchester, the ship's multi-faith chaplains gave up their lifebelts to evacuating seamen and stood together " arm in arm in prayer " as the ship went down.
At the junction between the inner and outer baileys, on the north side of the castle stood a tall five-sided keep, the eastern parts of which has been pulled down.
On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record which has now stood for over 20 years.
Elections were held in March 2007, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was elected president and Vall stood down.
Fadden stood down in favour of Labor leader John Curtin.

stood and August
Holt stood again for the federal House of Representatives on 17 August 1935, at a by-election for the marginally conservative seat of Fawkner, this time successfully.
Allen's statue stood in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol until, after a statewide poll run by the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted August 26, 2010 to replace him with the statute of inventor Thomas A. Edison.
Here stood the oak tree, on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag, glanced and struck King William the Second, surnamed Rufus, on the breast, of which he instantly died, on the second day of August, anno 1100.
On June 14 in Cincinnati, Rose singled in the first inning off Cubs pitcher Dave Roberts ; Rose would proceed to get a hit in every game he played until August 1, making a run at Joe DiMaggio ’ s record 56-game hitting streak, which had stood virtually unchallenged for 37 years.
On August 24, 1921, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at a value of 63. 9.
For breaking the ceasefire, Wright and the Portadown unit of the Mid Ulster Brigade were stood down by the UVF leadership on 2 August 1996.
In August 1996, in the wake of an unauthorised sectarian killing, Wright and the Portadown unit of the Mid-Ulster Brigade were stood down by the UVF's Brigade Staff ( Belfast leadership ).
High School Musical 2 is currently the most successful DCOM in popularity and awards, setting a cable record for most viewers of a basic cable program, when its August 2007 debut scored 17. 2 million, a record that stood until the December 3, 2007 Monday Night Football matchup between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on corporate sibling ESPN surpassed it with 17. 5 million viewers ( it still remains the most-watched scripted program in cable television history ).
This development came soon after the UVF's Brigade Staff in Belfast had stood down Wright and the Portadown unit of the Mid-Ulster Brigade, on 2 August 1996, for the killing of a Catholic taxi driver near Lurgan during Drumcree disturbances.
In his obituary in the South African Mail of 25 August 1875, he was lauded in the following terms: ' As a comparative philologist he stood in the foremost rank, and as an investigator and authority on the South African languages, he was without peer.
Opposite the Southgate Club on Chase Side stood The Gate, which was closed in August 1909.
On August 30, 1896, Archbishop Ireland dedicated the new church which stood on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Grand Avenue, where Greystone Apartment building now stands.
He was exported from England on 7 August 2006 and stood his first Southern Hemisphere season at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.
The nature of the LVF, which was founded by Billy Wright when he, along with the Portadown unit of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, was stood down by the UVF leadership on 2 August 1996 for breaking the ceasefire has led to frequent battles between the two movements.
He might have avoided the impending storm of Parliamentary prosecution, if he had remained in England and stood trial but instead he chose to depart for France on 8 August 1715 and initially stayed in Paris with Lord Bolingbroke.
Development of the land quickly produced results, and by August 1883 had been cleared, several hundred head of cattle were being grazed, and the population stood at 150.
His best time for the mile was 1: 53 ( then a world record which stood for three years ), set as a 4-year-old in August 1979 at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
He stood behind President Bush on August 2, 2005, as the trade agreement was signed into law.
When the first stone blocks were laid down at the Potsdamer Platz in the early hours of August 13, US troops stood ready with ammunition issued and watched the wall being built, stone by stone.
During the second half of July and the first half of August Courbet gradually concentrated his squadron in Mawei harbour, at the Pagoda Anchorage — named for a conspicuous Chinese pagoda, the Luoxingta ( 羅星塔 ), which stood on a hill above the harbour.
On 31 May 2010 Blackburn returned to BBC Radio 2 for a one-off live show featuring the 60 Top Selling Hits of the 60s ; in July 2010 he also stood in for 3 days for Judi Spiers on BBC Radio Devon and on 30 August he again returned to BBC Radio 2 for another one-off live show featuring the top 100 million-selling UK singles.
It asked to be annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia to form an Italian confederation against Austria, then using the Italian tricolour in its flag, but, after the other Italian states left the war ( May 1848 ) and Sardinia surrendered ( August 1848, then March 1849 ), Venetia stood alone.
French student Clotilde Reiss, who stood trial in August 2009 was also held there.

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