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He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.
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Gavin stood on the porch, a thin figure.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
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.
stood and porch
Crumbling statues of King Lud and his two sons, which formerly stood on the gate, now stand in the porch of the church of St Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street in London.
The 1670 porch for the Mercers ' Hall now adorns Swanage town hall, and a clock tower commemorating the Duke of Wellington which once stood at the Southwark end of London Bridge is now a feature of Swanage seafront.
All traces of this porch were eradicated, and the west wall where it stood returned to a blank wall, immediately after the new parliament opened.
Boaz and Jachin were two copper, brass or bronze pillars which stood in the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem.
stood and watched
Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.
Six months later, Hal Yarrow stood in the observation dome of the Gabriel and watched the ball of Earth dwindle above him.
David, then a powerful member of the National Assembly, stood idly by and watched.
Enodia's very name (" In-the-Road ") suggests that she watched over entrances, for it expresses both the possibility that she stood on the main road into a city, keeping an eye on all who entered, and in the road in front of private houses, protecting their inhabitants.
In another case, a starship stood by and watched as the loss of a planet's atmosphere was about to wipe out the last remaining members of a primitive civilization, rather than interfere to save their lives.
As de Bohun's great war-horse thundered towards him, he stood his ground, watched with mounting anxiety by his own army.
However, Carter's spiritual transformation did not compensate for his liberal policies in the minds of Christian conservatives, as reflected in Jerry Falwell's criticism that " Americans have literally stood by and watched as godless, spineless leaders have brought our nation floundering to the brink of death.
Simultaneously, other members of the audience were led to tiered seats, where they watched members of the cast banging the ceiling above the bunker with brooms while an actor stood calmly and shouted " quail ".
The mob included the sons of a Greek government minister and, during the attack, Greek police did not intervene and stood by and watched the attack.
Off to the right and several hundred yards to the rear stood Máel Sechnaill's 1, 000 men who simply watched.
" He traveled to Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had organized a voter registration drive ; he watched mothers with babies and elderly men and women standing in long lines for hours, as armed deputies and state troopers stood by — or intervened to smash a reporter's camera or use cattle prods on SNCC workers.
While the others stood and watched in very fear.
James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring " stepped " in a series of banana splits, to a stack of books, to a tabletop, to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright.
On foot, Ryan proceeded towards the town's common, injuring two more people: Marjorie Jackson, who was shot as she watched Ryan from the window of her living room and 14-year-old Lisa Mildenhall, whom Ryan shot in both legs as she stood outside her home.
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.
One month ago I stood on the White House lawn, and I watched as President Clinton, the man I'm proud to work for, greeted the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi.
* " He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched it go by.
There is also a legend that St Eloi resolved the problem of a horse reluctant to be shod, by cutting off the horse's foreleg and, while the horse stood on the remaining three legs and watched, he re-shod the hoof on the amputated leg, before miraculously re-attaching the leg to the horse.
The friends stood and watched the spider for two days then returned home and implemented what they had seen.
In 1997, he stood on the sidelines and watched his reported " friend " Chris Farley kill himself with loads of booze and coke and heroin.
All 200 members just stood there frozen as onlookers watched them in confusion.
The officially recorded attendance was at 102, 575 ( a record for a single match of rugby league that stood until 107, 558 watched Melbourne Storm defeat St George Illawarra Dragons at the Telstra Stadium in 1999 ).
Colonel John Glover reputedly stood on the rock and watched the British forces land during the battle.
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