Ladies and gentlemen, we are standing at the outset of a new century, we are at the gate of a new era.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04 The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
"Awaking with a start, the sleepy-head jumped to his feet and saw the preacher standing tall and angry in the pulpit, "Well, sir," he said, "I don't know what we're voting on, but it looks like you and me are the only ones for it.
She saw he was standing in the sun at the gate and watching the ice melting.
On the sidewalk at the corner of the house Policeman Cleary was standing with one ear upturned, listening to the crash of household utensils.
" A young woman of a modest and pleasing guise was standing before a show window gazing with sprightly interest at its display of shaving mugs and inkstands, and two yards from the window a large policeman of severe demeanour leaned against a water plug.
WhenI was standing on the top of the Great Wall, I felt as if I were in ancientdays.
The old woman looked closely and she saw, standing by each lily, a little Fairy mother who was singing and rocking the flower like a cradle, while in each lily trumpet lay a little Fairy baby laughing and playing.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003 Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Steven Wright (1955 - ) There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Standing on the city wall of the Shouchun City, Fu Jian and his brother Fu Rong saw that the ranks of the Jin army were in good order and that the morale of the Jin army was high.
Standing on the city wall of the Shouchun City, Fu Jian and his brother Fu Rong saw that the ranks of the Jin army were in good order and that the morale of the Jin army was high.
The oak standing on a hillside is exposed to every storm and gale.
I finally opened my eyes, and there they were, Job and Molly, standing proudly with all the other grandparents.
If you look round," he went on, "you will see a pitcher standing near.
Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and he noticed a bright light shining through a curtain in one corner.
It was closed for Christmas, but I noticed a family standing outside the locked door, huddled under the narrow overhang in an attempt to keep dry.
I stepped over the broken flowers lightly, when I couldn't help thinking of the sentimental mood of a poet in Song Dynasty , standing behind the curtain and chanting the verse:"A half mu of tung flowers melt a yard of the worrying rain quietly.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl.
