The coffee pot was scalding, the coffee was measured out in a bowl, and broken eggshells for the settling process were standing near.
In the wide splash of light that it flung upon the floor sat the Simpsons, in reverent and solemn silence, Emma Jane standing behind them, hand in hand with Rebecca.
Nobody ought to know it IS me standing by the river; it ought to be 'Rebecca,' or 'the darker maiden;' and 'the rush to Emma Jane' is simply dreadful.
She did not tread the solid ground at all, or have any sense of belonging to the common human family, until she entered the side yard of the brick house and saw her aunt Miranda standing in the open doorway.
The fall of one small stone cast by the valiant Elijah, known as "the fighting twin," did break the stillness of the woods for a moment, but it did not come within a hundred yards of Minnie, who shouted "Jail Birds" at the top of her lungs and then turned, with an agreeable feeling of excitement, to meet Rebecca, standing perfectly still in the path, with a day of reckoning plainly set forth in her blazing eyes.
It was a wonderful experience standing inside the building with Emma Jane's apron wound about her hair; wonderful to feel that when she leaned her head against the bars they seemed to turn to cold iron; that her eyes were no longer Rebecca Randall's but mirrored something of Charlotte Corday's hapless woe.
" stormed Rebecca "I wouldn't have minded standing in the corner alone—that is, not so very much; but I couldn't bear standing with him.
Randall, who watched the stage out of sight, gathered up her packages from the bench at the store door, and stepped into the wagon that had been standing at the hitching-post.
Conduction of Electricity: When lightning strikes, the current travels down the tree trunk to the ground, posing a risk to anyone standing nearby.
She had to turn the windmill to pump water for Farmer Brown's cows, and this was only one of many mills standing idle as they waited for her.
There was Farmer Brown's boy standing right in front of the door of her home.
Then she jumped out in front of Jimmy Skunk, her eyes snapping, her teeth showing, and the hair on her back standing on end so as to make her look very fierce.
Finally Whitefoot ran along the old bench and jumped from the end of it for a box standing on end, which Farmer Brown's boy sometimes used to sit on.
A second later he had found solid footing and was standing with the water only up to his knees.
What he didn't know was that Lightfoot had been watching him all the time and was even then standing where he could see him.
So, standing motionless behind a tangle of fallen trees, Lightfoot listened and watched.
CHAPTER XIV END OF A SIMPLE SOUL The next morning, at half-past seven, Anna was standing in the garden-doorway of the Priory.
When he came back to the parlour to extinguish the gas she was standing by the mantelpiece.
She was standing by herself, watching Agnes at play with some other girls.
' When she went upstairs to dress, she saw the Suttons' landau standing outside their house on the opposite side of the road.
