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

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

Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.

He stood there staring with disbelief at the vacant desk.

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

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

He stood very still, his arms at his sides, staring up at the heavens, then down at the blinking lights below.

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.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

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.

He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.

Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

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.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

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 elderly chauffeur, immaculate in a dark uniform, stood stiffly at attention holding open the door of the town car.

I put in new batteries so as to be certain I'd have plenty of power and on my way out walked over to the regular parking stalls and stood looking at them thoughtfully.

The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside door was a hundred miles.

For thirty minutes, Stanley Gilborn stood there.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

The maypole there was the tallest by far, reaching over a hundred and thirty feet, and it stood until being blown over by a high wind in 1672, when it was moved to Wansted in Essex and served as a mount for a telescope.

By the close of 1945 party membership stood at half a million, an enormous increase from its pre-Popular Front figure of less than thirty thousand.

" In, he set the record for grand slams in a single season with five, a record that stood for over thirty years.

Sawchuk finished his hockey career with 447 wins, a record that stood for thirty years, and his career record of 103 shutouts remained unsurpassed among NHL goaltenders, until Martin Brodeur bested that mark on December 21, 2009.

At thirty, I stood firm.

Nevertheless, some thirty years ago Riaz Pasha stood forth boldly to protest against the maladministration that then prevailed in Egypt.

He also led the AL in assists three times and in putouts and double plays twice each ; he tied a league record by recording 400 putouts four times, and his totals of 503 putouts and 526 total chances stood as AL records for nearly thirty years.

Unlike the Norman parish church of St Denys that has stood for over seven hundred years, the first Baptist Chapel in Lisvane was built in 1789 on Chapel Road, now renamed Rudry Road, and only stood for less than thirty years until it had to be rebuilt during 1818.

Praised in his Wisden obituary as having " a brilliant game that made him splendid to watch from the ringside ", MacLaren's 424 against Somerset in 1895 stood as a record high score for thirty years until overtaken by Don Bradman and Bill Ponsford.

* Actor Edward G. Robinson ( 1893-1973 ) is quoted as saying: “ For over thirty years I made periodic visits to Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.

His tally of 36 goals and 307 points was a record which stood for over thirty years until it was surpassed by his fellow county man Henry Shefflin.

In May 1833, Charles Chalmers took a lease of Merchiston Castle ( the former home of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms ) — which at that time stood in rural surroundings — and opened his academy, starting with some thirty boys.

That led to the demolition of St Nicholas's Gate, along with the original St Nicholas church, part of the Old Shambles, and thirty houses that stood on the old bridge.

He crawled beneath the two supply wagons which stood between the buildings and peered around a corner.

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 two men in overalls stood just behind the blonde-headed man.

They stood there, just the two of them, in the rocking, shattering blast.

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.

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

He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.

Brahm's Sonata in A, although also vigorous, stood up well under the two artists' strong, large-scale treatment.

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

With the conversion of Sergius Paulus, Paul begins to gain prominence over Barnabas from the point where the name " Paul ," his Roman name, is substituted for " Saul " ( 13: 9 ); instead of " Barnabas and Saul " as heretofore ( 11: 30 ; 12: 25 ; 13: 2, 7 ) we now read " Paul and Barnabas " ( 13: 43, 46, 50 ; 14: 20 ; 15: 2, 22, 35 ); only in 14: 14 and 15: 12, 25 does Barnabas again occupy the first place, in the first passage with recollection of 14: 12, in the last two, because Barnabas stood in closer relation to the Jerusalem church than Paul.

: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, " Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?

He stood at just 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was hurt numerous times, including a sprained ankle and a broken bone in his leg that kept him out of the last two games of the 1957 regular season.

On 9 September 1919 the HD-4 set a world marine speed record of 114 km / h ( 70. 86 mph ), a record which stood for two decades.

None of the party-affiliated candidates was successful in the October senatorial elections ; three JDA members standing as independents were elected as deputies in November 2005 along with two members of the Centre Party who had similarly stood as independents.

In the 2008 elections for senators, the JDA fielded two candidates, two candidates stood as members of the campaign group " Jersey 2020 " ( focusing on environmental issues ) and two for " Time4Change / Reform ": none was successful.

The trade turnover between the two countries stood at US $ 1. 785 billion in 2008 i. e. Jordan ’ s imports from India stood at about US $ 503 million in 2008 while its exports to India reached at US $ 1. 283 billion in 2008.

India ’ s position in 2009 is third and fifteenth respectively as the trade turnover between the two countries stood at US $ 983 million in 2009 i. e. India ’ s exports to Jordan in 2009 stood at US $ 297 million while imports were valued at US $ 686 million.

During the Classical period an important public building, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates.

After that, only two buildings in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz still stood-one complete, the other in a half-ruined fragmented form: the Weinhaus Huth's steel skeleton had enabled the building to withstand the pounding of World War II virtually undamaged, and it now stood out starkly amid a great levelled wasteland, although now occupied only by groups of squatters.