Gavin stood on the porch, a thin figure.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.

Deputy Marshal Luke Harper still stood guard on the veranda, a forlorn, scarecrowish figure in the murky dark.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

The dangerous current upon the prairie ceased, but the water stood and kept on rising.

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

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

I stood on a table, surrounded by hundreds of expectant young faces.

the Catholic Saint Mary's Church, with an even taller steeple and a cross on top, stood on Ball Street.

He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.

Over on the bank, the west bank, a man stood, calling to him.

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.

When he opened the door, there stood Eugene, on his way out of the apartment.

She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it.

He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap, and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt, its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost.

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.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

A metal table and four chairs stood in the center.

A lighted lamp stood on the table that dusky, drizzling day.

Here and there on work table or pedestal stood a shape with a sheet or a tarpaulin draped over it.

he stood with his feet apart on a kitchen table he had dragged to the sill.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

A row of books were stood up along the center of the table as a net, two more books served as rackets and were used to continuously hit a golf-ball from one end of the table to the other.

# We recline at the Seder table because in ancient times, a person who reclined at a meal was a free person, while slaves and servants stood.

Also, the Babylonian Talmud teaches that " Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Eleazar both explain that as long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now, one's table atones the poor are invited as guests " ( Talmud, tractate Berachoth 55a ).

For this performance they covered their heads and hands in multi-coloured metalised powders, stood on a table, and sang along and moved to a recording of Flanagan and Allen's song " Underneath the Arches ", sometimes for a day at a time.

In ancient Greece and Rome magicians would perform stood behind a table, as opposed to on the ground as seen in Egypt, India and Turkey, to allow a larger audience to see the show, this tradition has continued today.

The concept patent for a progressive linked jackpot on a table game, that Titus brought to Caribbean Stud has stood many challenges.

The French stayed faithful to the writing table or bureau plat (" flat desk "), which might have a matching paper-case ( cartonnier ) that stood upon it.

They failed to mount a challenge for the new Premier League title, and as late as March they stood 15th in the table.

Finally, a Wright-designed table lamp with an art glass shade stood on a Wright-designed library table in the living room.

Over on the right side of the chancel stood a table of prothesis used for the to-be-consecrated bread and wine for the communion, as well as other offerings as the service demanded.

During the 1990s, on a late night television show by Thierry Ardisson Majax gave a demo of the " rotating table " supernatural phenomenon: a group of " randomly " selected people from the audience stood around a round table, put their hands on it, and the table went up and started rotating.

First they removed the table to its place apointed, and then tooke the seat which it stood upon, ... and brake that all to pieces ; ... they pluckt down the rails and left them for the poore to kindle their fires ; and so left the organs to be pluckt down when we came back again, but it appeared before we came back they took them downe themselves.

After Stratus retained her title, Bubba Ray and D-Von stood in the ring and shook hands before an altercation broke out between the three men where D-Von and Batista ended up driving Bubba through a table.

The tea stood cold on the table, not cleared since breakfast.