Casaubon; "but now we will pass on to the house, lest the young ladies should be tired of standing.
People of standing should consume their independent nonsense at home, not hawk it about.
To be sure,—if you like learning and standing, and that sort of thing, we can't have everything.
Bobbie was left standing alone, the Station Cat watching her from under the bench with friendly golden eyes.
The old lady at the Post-office was standing on her doorstep.
It seemed to her that they had been standing there for hours and hours, holding those silly little red flannel flags that no one would ever notice.
Standing in front of the stranger, she got out the handkerchief and passed it to him so that the others did not see.
Mother and Peter and Phyllis were standing in a row at the end of the table.
He was standing in front of them in an attitude like that of a show-man showing off the animals in a menagerie, or of the kind clergyman when he points with a wand at the 'Scenes from Palestine,' when there is a magic-lantern and he is explaining it.
" Then he lighted the string of the firecracker, standing up on his hind legs to reach it, you see, and, as it was a long string, the fox knew it would burn some time before it would explode the firecracker.
" So he got up on the rope, standing up on his hind legs, and balancing the pole with his front paws and he steadied himself for a moment and then took a step.
" So Buddy hurried to the door, and whom should be see standing there but Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit; and Uncle Wiggily had rapped with his crutch, which had made the funny sound.
She was standing at his elbow, looking at what he looked at.
He thought nothing of it, but when he went out to get into his trap and drive home, he saw her again, standing a little way off; she looked at him with a woebegone air, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
He was a hefty fellow, in the habit of standing no nonsense from his customers, and Tough Bill hesitated.
It may be that in order to realise the romance of life you must have something of the actor in you; and, capable of standing outside yourself, you must be able to watch your actions with an interest at once detached and absorbed.
He had a sudden vision of her standing in the kitchen—it was hardly larger than a cupboard—washing the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away, giving the sink a scrub, and hanging the dish-cloth up to dry—it was there still, a gray torn rag; then looking round to see that everything was clean and nice.
It was really rather mysterious, and it seemed to me that Stroeve, standing just behind, was trembling in his shoes.
The Colonel, still standing in front of the fireplace, uttered no word.
I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.