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stood and up
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
Barton stood up.
`` You mean anyone who stood up for his rights '', Curt said.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
Matsuo stood up.
With a lordly and generous gesture, the discoverer stood up and beckoned to the closest of his fellows.
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.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
Clara Harris, one of the guests in the box, stood up and demanded water.
He stood very still, his arms at his sides, staring up at the heavens, then down at the blinking lights below.
Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.
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.
It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.
Sighing, Leona dropped the paper and stood up.
Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.
I stood up and began pacing.
He stood up to emphasize his strong feeling on the subject.
The painting `` a fresco '' stood up superbly ; ;
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.
He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.
He stood up.
He stood up and thanked her.
She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.
He stood up and touched the girl's arm.

stood and head
Dr. Louis Lalaurie stood on the veranda at the head of the driveway and watched his carriage as it approached the pillared mansion.
He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.
She stood for a moment, rain dripping from the trees over her head, thinking of Maude.
Instead, he walked around the temple and mounted still another flight of stairs and stood before the seated Fudo at their head.
Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.
( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.
Loki's wife Sigyn stood by him with a bowl to catch the poison, but whenever she had to empty the bowl the poison dripped on Loki's face, forcing him to jerk his head away and thrash against his bonds, which caused the earth to tremble.
Prime Minister Souaré and Diarra Camara, the head of the army, stood alongside Somparé during his announcement.
Avowed Hussites stood at the head of the government.
I thought he had suddenly foundered, and, speaking to him, was on point of dismounting and leading him, when he all of a sudden fell a-groaning pieteously, hung his head, spread out his forelegs, as if to save himself from falling, and stood stock still, continuing to groan.
He wrote that Hegelianism stood the movement of reality on its head, and that one needed to set it upon its feet.
The only Australian batsman to make an impact was Stan McCabe, who resolutely stood his ground and impulsively hooked and pulled everything aimed at his upper body, undeterred by the prospect of taking a potentially lethal blow to the head.
A year later, Mieszko II stood at the head of Polish troops in the next war against the Emperor.
In this situation, Young still stood as head of the LDS Church as well as Utah's secular government.
:“ This gentleman has for several years stood at the head of our commercial community and he carries with him the esteem and kind wishes of the whole foreign society, honourably acquired by a long career of private charity and public spirit .”
Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.
Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (" On the Life of the Caesars "), was so shaken by the news that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:
His sister recalls that he stood on the floor and played it with his hands over his head.
However, studio head Jack Warner approved of Huston's treatment of Hammett's 1930 novel, as he stood by his word to let Huston choose his first subject.
Menem also effected drastic cuts to the military budget, and appointed Lt. Gen. Martín Balza as the Army's General Chief of Staff ( head of the military hierarchy ); Balza, a man of strong democratic convictions and a vocal critic of the Falklands War, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d ' état throughout his senior career, and gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces ' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror.
Bulloch based his performance on Clint Eastwood's portrayal of the Man with No Name in A Fistful of Dollars ; similar to the Western character, Bulloch cradled the gun prop, made the character seem ready to shoot, slightly tilted his head, and stood a particular way.
With the Englishman only feet away, Bruce turned aside, stood in his stirrups and hit the knight so hard with his axe that he split his helmet and head in two.
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.

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