When playing the double bass, the bassist either stands or sits on a high stool and leans the instrument against the bassist's body with the bass turned slightly inwards in order to more easily reach the strings.

During the daytime, he usually sits on a high perch, usually 3 – 5 feet off the ground to serve as a lookout for his flock.

The width of a wakeboard directly affects how high it sits in the water.

Pressure is brought to bear on remaining wind tunnels due to declining or erratic usage, high electricity costs, and in some cases the high value of the real estate upon which the facility sits.

The 13th century Palace of the Kings of Majorca sits on the high citadel, surrounded by ramparts, reinforced for Louis XI and Charles V, which were updated in the 17th century by Louis XIV's military engineer Vauban.

The city sits in a " bowl " surrounded by the high mountains of the altiplano.

This author points out that Casca praises Brutus at face value, but then inadvertently compares him to a disreputable joke of a man by calling him an alchemist, “ Oh, he sits high in all the people ’ s hearts ,/ And that which would appear offence in us / His countenance, like richest alchemy ,/ Will change to virtue and to worthiness ” ( I. iii. 158-60 ).

Downtown Juneau sits at sea level, with tides averaging, below steep mountains about to high.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante ( known for its large golden dome ) which sits high in the hills above San Pablo Dam Road.

It sits on a high stone foundation sheathed in brick ( a traditional English cellar ) and still retains its original windows, front door, and semicircle arched fanlight.

The city sits on a high bluff above the Mississippi River ; to reach the riverbank, one must travel down a steep road to the landing called Silver Street, which is in marked contrast to the flat " delta " lowland found across the river surrounding the city of Vidalia, Louisiana.

La Luz sits at the opening of La Luz Canyon Creek whose headwaters are high in the Sacramento Mountains.

Kent sits high on the spectacular Hudson Highlands north of New York City in the north central portion of Putnam County.

The high percentage of Congers that sits under water is due to the hamlet's emplacement within and between four lakes: Congers Lake, Rockland Lake, Swartwout ( also Swarthout ) Lake, and the county reservoir, Lake DeForest.

A large part of Dandridge, including most of the historic commercial center, sits below the high level water mark of Douglas Lake.

Anton sits just to the east of the geographic center of the level high plains of the Llano Estacado.

Doughboy ( Ice Cube ), who had previously dropped out of high school, has just been released from prison, and sits at a table playing dominoes with his friends, Chris ( Redge Green ), now in a wheelchair, " Dookie " ( Dedrick D. Gobert ), and " Monster ".

Its ' large marble dome, often called an onion dome or amrud ( guava dome ), is about 35 meters high and sits on a cylindrical drum about 7 meters high.

A small stone shelter ( Agnes Vaille Memorial ) approximately 10 feet ( 3 m ) high that sits on the left side of the Keyhole gives a sense of scale.

This area of the desert land generally sits at a very high elevation, much higher than the normal desert land, and can receive very cold temperatures at night in the winter ( with the exception of California and southern Nevada ), sometimes near zero degrees on very cold nights.

Eastern Utah has a huge mass of desert land, which sits at a high elevation, and is sometimes referred to as the " High Desert " as well.

An important and unfortunate attribute of the penny-farthing is that the rider sits high and nearly over the front axle.

The high top look is accomplished by using a " floating pole ", which is a pole that sits on cables that run across the tent interior from the top of the sides.

To Voltaire's surprise, however, their host gives them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to lend them money and sits them down before a good dinner.

The present building sits on the site of a hunting lodge built by the Earl of Cavan in the 19th century.

For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.

alt = Black-and-white photograph of a statue consisting of an inscribed, round pedestal on top of which sits a seated, nude, male figure of which only the legs and lower torso are preserved

The Expansion module is designed as a pass-through device that sits on top of the console and requires no system modding.

: For example, picture 1 above illustrates the concrete relationship " Cat sits on Mat ".

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He is the author of over 400 scientific papers published in refereed journals and currently sits on the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.

Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond.

In chapter 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city sits as a solitary widow weeping sorely.

* The scene with Bruce Wayne reaches Wayne Manor barely alive and sits before his father ’ s bust, requesting guidance in his war on crime.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

An apple sitting on a table is in a relation to the table it sits on.

Charles regularly sits in for Janice Long, Steve Wright and Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, and has presented numerous one-off programmes on the station, including The Craig Charles Soul All-Nighter ( 2011 ), which he hosted continuously for 12 hours.

Cadillac sits on the eastern edge of the Manistee National Forest and the surrounding area is heavily wooded with mixed hardwood and conifer forests.

It was recorded for years in the local history books that the land on which Columbus sits was donated by General Tipton ; however, a deed purporting to show a sale of the land was acquired in 2003 by Historic Columbus Indiana.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

An anemometer is installed on the tip of the building's mast ; the anemometer sits at 378 m ( 1, 240 ft ) above sea level.

On 3 October 2011, Chelsea made a proposal to CPO shareholders to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits, stating that " buying back the freehold removes a potential hurdle should a suitable site become available in the future ".

The wall behind the stone was a temporary addition to support the arch above it, which had been weakened after the damage in the 1808 fire ; the wall blocks the view of the rotunda, sits on top of the graves of four 12th century kings, and is no longer structurally necessary.

The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6, 000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound ; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.

Brutus sits on the left, alone, brooding, seemingly dismissing the dead bodies of his sons.