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stood and looking
He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking about him.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
He moved over to the desk and stood looking at the papers on it but not touching anything.
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.
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.
He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.
And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.
When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.
In the sunshine of late afternoon, Lucy stood looking at the ready guest room.
He was high-shouldered and bony ; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth ; buttoned up to the throat ; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.
The Town Bridge maintains the line of the road to Lindsey and from its western end, looking at the river side of the Exchange Building to the right, it is possible to see how the two ends of the building, founded on the natural levees of The Haven, have stood firm while the middle has sunk into the infill of the former river.
" When the people of Quraish did not believe me ( i. e. the story of my Night Journey ), I stood up in Al-Hijr and Allah displayed Jerusalem in front of me, and I began describing Jerusalem to them while I was looking at it.
I do not repent anything I have done: and I believe that the course which I have opened is only commenced, The Roman who saw his hand burning to ashes before the tyrant, promised that three hundred should follow out his enterprise, Can I not promise looking at John Martin ( Ireland ) | Martin, Thomas Devin Reilly | Reilly, and Thomas Francis Meagher | Meagher, who stood round the dock for one, for two, for three, aye, for hundreds.
Rowena stood for a moment before coming downstairs, looking startled by something or someone she may have seen in the open door of the library, and then dropped the flower vase she was holding.
Erected by public subscription following his death at sea in 1883, it was unveiled in November 1887 by the newly arrived Governor William Des Vœux and stood " above the second terrace looking down on the fountain ".
On V-E Day he stood next to Churchill looking down on the crowd on Whitehall.
During a parliamentary session on December 5, 2007, Mathyssen committed a blunder when she stood in the Commons and accused Conservative James Moore of looking at images of " scantily clad " women on his personal laptop computer at his desk in the House of Commons.
During a parliamentary session on December 5, 2007, Irene Mathyssen stood in the Chamber and accused Moore of looking at images of " scantily clad " women on his personal laptop computer.
This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memorial stood directly at the foot of Mount Ainslie.
On 25 February 1660 Barbara, gave birth to a daughter named Lady Anne Palmer, whom Palmer believed was his own daughter and the diary of Samuel Pepys on 23 August 1662 said: " But that which pleased me best was that my Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall-where I glutted myself with looking on her.
A confidential nomination review committee reviews nominations for new members of the Hall of Fame, looking for contributions of major benefit to Canada which have stood the test of time.
His son Salvatore was described by associates and the press as better looking than his father Testa, crime reporter George Anastasia describes his son Salvatore as, " a ruggedly handsome 210-pound man who stood 6 feet tall with hazel eyes and real long lashes and dimpled cheeks.
The Lady Caroline Alice Elgar | Alice Elgar came and stood by me, saw what I was looking at, and translated the Spanish sentence: " Herein is enshrined the soul of ....." Then she went on to fill in the name – that of a personal friend ... Mrs. Julia H. Worthington, a most charming and kind American friend.
Archaeologists and experts, looking into the reasons of the imposing structure crashing down, found that it stood on a foundation that had a depth of only one-and-a-half feet.

stood and down
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.
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 ; ;
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.
He stood down in August 2004.
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.

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