He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

`` You mean anyone who stood up for his rights '', Curt said.

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

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 ; ;

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

He saw no life, but still stood there for a time peering at the unlovely hills, his gaze continually returning to Papa-san.

And those without beards would have stood out as not dressed for the occasion.

As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;

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.

Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

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.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

The pace could now be accelerated, for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood on firm ground.

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 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.

The seventeen men stood and stared at him for a moment longer.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

For moments he stood in water, shivering and gasping for breath.

He stood, panting, for a moment.

He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target.

The wall had stood as an icon for the political and economic division between East and West, a division that Churchill had referred to as the " Iron Curtain ".

Roughly dome-shaped and covered in Iron Age La Tène designs, it was discovered broken in several pieces and partly buried close to a Bronze Age stone circle, inside which it probably once stood.

This stretch of coast originally consisted of salt marshes protected from the sea by ridges of shingle and sand, and Holkham's Iron Age fort stood at the end of a sandy spit surrounded by the tidal wetland.

Bronze Age swords have been discovered near here and an Iron Age settlement and Roman villa stood at Eccles.

A causeway or jetty also stood on the riverside during the early Iron Age, although its exact use is uncertain.

By November 1941 his number of aerial victories claimed stood at 96, which earned him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

Stamp bearing the symbol of the " Iron Guard " over a green cross that stood for one of its humanitarian ventures

On the station is a plaque commemorating the Thames Iron Works, which stood on this site.

Named after Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, Commander, Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during the water crisis in February 1964, who stood watch on this hill in battle greens, wearing his " Big Iron ", a. 357 Colt magnum pistol, 12 to 18 hours a day, for several weeks.

2 km north of the town, his fort, Beal Boruma, stood on the site of an Iron Age ring at the head of Lough Derg, where a ford crossed the river.

The site is unknown, although the Castle Pools ( on the old quarry site ) and Castle Ironworks ( built by the Darby family, one of whom commissioned the world-famous Iron Bridge ) possibly indicate the general area where it may have stood.

The common land features the remains of where an Iron Age hill fort once stood ( See Below ).

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

It has been suggested that the term comes from the Black Stump Wine Saloon that once stood about 10 kilometres out of Coolah, New South Wales on the Gunnedah Road.

The inn that inspired the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547.

Lionel Curtis, writing in the imperialist journal The Round Table, wrote: " If the British Commonwealth can only be preserved by such means, it would become a negation of the principle for which it has stood ".

He has destroyed the last fortress of democracy in Eastern Europe which stood in the way of his ambition.

He has opened his way to the food, the oil and the resources which he requires in order to consolidate his military power, and he has successfully defeated and reduced to impotence the forces that might have stood against the rule of violence.

The nearest CND has come to having an electoral arm was the Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Campaign ( INDEC ) which stood candidates in a few local elections during the 1960s.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

:* Domestic: fixed-line density is about 2 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing and in 2008 stood at about 55 percent of the population

The Pyramid Temple, which stood on the east side of the pyramid and measured north to south and east to west, has almost entirely disappeared apart from the black basalt paving.

According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.

They conclude that it lacks certain features of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and has others consistent with the Pileated ( Sibley at al., 2006 ) The original Cornell research team stood by their original findings in a response article in the same issue of Science, stating:

Since 1958 this base has been replaced with a high base made of lapis lazuli, it stood 35 centimetres ( 14 in ) high and weighed 3. 8 kilograms ( 8. 4 lb ).

He has stood as a Parliamentary candidate in the general elections on several of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list-candidate.

It pitted today ’ s majimboists, represented by Odinga, who campaigned for regionalism, against Kibaki, who stood for the status quo of a highly centralized government that has delivered considerable economic growth but has repeatedly displayed the problems of too much power concentrated in too few hands — corruption, aloofness, favoritism and its flip side, marginalization.

Not only has Secretariat's record time stood for 39 years and counting, but in the race itself, he did something unique in Triple Crown races: each successive quarter, his times were faster.

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.

The current world record for women is held by Galina Chistyakova of the former Soviet Union who leapt in Leningrad on June 11, 1988, a mark that has stood for 24 years.