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I stood there wondering what to do, but my sister was more decisive and immediately went to the phone.
When I demanded an explanation, he just stood there spluttering.
They stood around harrumphing about the current state of politics.
He stood on the street corner, importuning passersby for help.
He stood apart while the other members of the team celebrated.
She stood there, shuffling her feet, waiting for the bus to arrive.
We stood on the deck and watched dolphins swim near the ship.
When he stood up, he got so dizzy that he had to sit down again.
The presence of eponychium on the feet is indicative that the foal has not yet stood.
Also in the wake of the referendum, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, stood down and Jim Murphy was elected to replace her.
Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.
It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride.
In recent adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Longnor has featured as Lambton, while Lyme Park and Chatsworth House have stood in for Pemberley.
Ely Castle once stood on Mount Hill, which was renamed Cherry Hill following the tree plantings by Bentham.
When Gordon Wilson stood down as SNP leader in 1990, Salmond decided to contest the leadership.
MacDiarmid stood in the Glasgow Kelvingrove constituency in the 1945 and 1950 general elections.
He stood in the middle of a narrow part of the road, stopped the horse, and struck Fyot with a heavy cudgel, leaving him for dead in the ditch.
Thomas Allason was appointed as the main architect, and in March 1854 the new brick building inspired from the Great Exhibition stood ready.
We maintain peace by having the ability to make war and that has stood the test of time.
Lockheed stood by their job numbers and said that their accounting was in line with industry norms.
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However, by 1675 the issue could not be avoided and by then his unconventional views stood in the way.
John Ruskin went further, to oppose completely what manufacturing in Babbage's sense stood for.
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has stood up to the scrutiny of the world's other mathematical experts.
While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries.
Not far Llantwit Fawr stood Cadoc's foundation of Llancarfan, founded in the latter part of the fifth century.
Augustus Montague Toplady, Rowland, Richard Hill and others were engaged on one side, while Wesley and Fletcher stood on the other.
Next he received a second blow on the head, but still he stood firm and immovable.
There was only one chair, and they offered it to her. They stood over her, maladroitly, apparently unsure how to proceed.
To prevent farmers taking stones from the wall, he began buying some of the land on which the wall stood.
The Bath Roman Temple stood on a podium more than two metres above the surrounding courtyard, approached by a flight of steps.
It would have visually dominated the surrounding area and stood out to traffic on the River Thames.
Houses around the perimeter of the park were demolished and the land they stood on incorporated into the park.
Adjoining it, on the north side, stood the cloister and the buildings devoted to the monastic life.
His rational approach to Gothic stood in stark contrast to the revival's romanticist origins.
He wrote that in New York City his building would have been lost in a forest of tall buildings, but that in Oklahaoma it stood alone.
Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
The first chip shop stood on the present site of Oldham's Tommyfield Market.
Depending on how sticky they felt it to be when they stood up, they were able to assess its alcoholic strength and impose the appropriate duty.
Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it.
In 1820, he stood for Parliament in Coventry, but finished bottom of the poll.
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Among other important composers of the time, including Christopher Tye and Robert White, Tallis stood out.
Elgar's statue at the end of Worcester High Street stands facing the cathedral, only yards from where his father's shop once stood.
Gilmour stood on a flightcase on castors, an insecure setup supported from behind by a technician.
His mehmandar stood by, fresh as a clover from their walk, his arms crossed on his Aiantian chest.
He stood down in July 1970 after a farewell gala organised by Michael Somes, John Hart and Leslie Edwards.
At the time, Caine's working class Cockney, just as with The Beatles' Liverpudlian accents, stood out to American and British audiences alike.
That record stood until 1994, when it was surpassed by Brazil's three goals in seven games.
Liverpool fans often refer to themselves as Kopites, a reference to the fans who once stood, and now sit, on the Kop at Anfield.
This record only stood until 1924, when the Paris Games involved 3,000 competitors, the greatest of whom was Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi.
Nothing was achieved in the next two seasons, including a defeat in the 1989 Challenge Cup Final and Murphy stood down as coach.
He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.
During 1951, George VI's health declined and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events.
And there and then the high king stood strong and lay down too led by Richard 'Strongbow' de Clare.
Finds of musket balls appear to mirror the lines of men who stood and fought.
In 1835 Disraeli stood for the last time as a Radical, unsuccessfully contesting High Wycombe once again.
In the 1847 general election, Disraeli stood, successfully, for the Buckinghamshire constituency.
British casualties stood at 16 dead and 96 wounded, while French casualties were 10 dead and 33 wounded.
As the crisis deepened and the Prime Minister stood her ground, opponents claimed that up to 18 million people were refusing to pay.
The Tower was built to replace the original college buildings which stood on the site.
Lord Prescott stood down on 6 July 2013 in protest against delays in the introduction of press regulation, expecting others to follow.
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In 1987 he stood for Parliament in Banff and Buchan and defeated the incumbent Conservative MP, Albert McQuarrie.
As the Ottoman Empire steadily weakened decade after decade, Russia stood poised to take advantage by expanding south.
In opposition stood the West, dominantly democratic and capitalist with a free press and independent organizations.
It was the 118th engine from the locomotive works of Robert Stephenson and stood under patent protection.
In the event, he stood down on 13 July, with Theresa May becoming Prime Minister.
Bunyan spent his 12 years' imprisonment in Bedford County Gaol, which stood on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street.
On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
Its run of 2,238 performances was more than twice as long as any previous musical, setting a record that stood for nearly forty years.
It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration.
He had stood Storer Clouston's plot on its head and completely restructured the film.
To allow for this, Attenborough stood in for Hopkins during Winger's rehearsals, only bringing him in for the last one before a take.
He wrote that Hegelianism stood the movement of reality on its head, and that one needed to set it upon its feet.
Jim Telfer stood down after the Grand Slam to concentrate on his professional career as a school master.
The palace formerly stood on Haly Hill, on the west side of the modern village, overlooking the Water of Mey.
Although the republic stood in name, contemporaries of Augustus knew it was just a veil and that Augustus had all meaningful authority in Rome.
Dumfries got its nickname 'Queen of the South' from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood in the general election.
Above them stood a dozen or so synods and at the apex the general assembly.
The name indicated that they stood so close to the monarch as to be brushed by his sleeve.
He stood in their midst when Joan entered the chamber in which the court was assembled.
Other old friends of Knox's, Lord Argyll and William Kirkcaldy, stood by Mary.
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A large chimney stood in the middle of the house that provided cooking facilities and warmth during the winter.
The ROC was a defence warning organisation operating in the United Kingdom between 1925 and 31 December 1995 when it was stood down.
In this way, he and his followers stood in the vanguard of resistance to political absolutism and furthered the cause of democracy.
He stood down as SNP leader in 2004 and became Convener of the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee.
Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan.
Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, stood for election.
At the 2012 Scottish local elections Councillor Debra Storr stood down to concentrate on her professional career.
The SNP contested all 59 Scottish seats and Plaid Cymru stood in all 40 Welsh seats.
The Nine Per Cent Growth Party stood candidates on the regional lists, and had a candidate for the local council elections of the same year.
However, the kings do not appear to have stood as judges in all cases, and in some cases the professional jurists took that role.
Some of the waitresses disappeared, others stood against the bar talking to the nonbuying customers.
As of 2012, Deacon Blue's total album sales stood at six million, with twelve UK Top 40 singles, along with two UK number one albums.
He used no pyro or video backdrop, and the audience stood close enough to its hero that it could hold nonconversations with him.
Unlike Clemenceau and Orlando, Lloyd George on the whole stood on the side of generosity and moderation.
It is thought this would have stood upright within the henge, as the patterns cover both sides.
He received honors and gifts from the Saxons and King Alfred stood witness at his confirmation.
Two senior nobles stood out as candidates to head Henry's regency government.
The pub has stood inside Caernarfon's Town Walls since the 16th century, and many people claim to have seen ghosts within the building.
The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond, achieved its seats with a relatively low number of votes, as 73 candidates stood unopposed.
The whole of the walled cemetery next to where the chapel stood was completely covered in concrete.
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Under these waters and near this stone stood Hafod Fadog, a farmstead where in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Quakers met for worship.
She unsuccessfully stood in both the 1997 and 2001 elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a candidate in the Rhondda constituency.
Beside it stood the pier which was built in 1872 for the pleasure of the many visitors who flocked to the North Wales coast.
The church standing in Conwy has been marked as the oldest building in Conwy and has stood in the walls of Conwy since the 14th century.
Facing the front of the site stood the Johnson Smirke Building whose namesake comes from its designer James Johnson and builder Robert Smirke.
The Model House stood empty for many years before being bought by the local authority to convert into a craft and design centre.
He stood, unsuccessfully, as Conservative Party candidate for the Chippenham constituency in the 2010 general election.
Some groups of poets and genres of poetry stood completely outside that tradition.
They failed to mount a challenge for the new Premier League title, and as late as March they stood 15th in the table.
Jones came to prominence in 1964 when she stood in for Leontyne Price as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Steve Gorman, from the Black Crowes, stood in for Cable during the band's live performances until Weyler was appointed.
The towers stood for 50 years, creating a landmark visible from the village of Seascale.
In March 2008, a wall that had stood for decades at the boundary between the Republic of Cyprus and the UN buffer zone was demolished.
Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.
Whereupon the soldier dispossessed himself of his burden, and stood looking down upon it in great perplexity.
They bonjoured back and stood there awkwardly. Finally, Flood broke the silence.
John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
Akiva stood at the edge of a rooftop terrace in Riyadh, peering down at a doorway in the lane below.
Copernicus grinned amorously at the ruddy stout damsel who stood, presenting arms akimbo, under the ale-bush in the latticed porch.
But usually, when not used, the tables stood altarwise against the east wall.
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The Aonian fount stood at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and was sacred to the Muses.
His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.
There, on the ramparts of the forts, stood Nicholas Koorn, armed to the teeth, flourishing a brass-hilted sword.
The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.
He attituded his way over to me, got up close, and just stood there looking at me, trying to appear threatening.
The Ambassador's bangalo stood at the base of a mountain covered with jungle, of which he had a portion cleared to provide a promenade.
The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.
The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly.
The power company had lopped off the tops of the trees along the road, and they stood betopped, blunted, like a child's drawing of trees.
Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.
He stood back, with his hands still on Leo's shoulders, and smiled wanly at the pink-faced blazered boy.
As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.
The Bog Creeper came out her wee bothy so I stood on the toilet seat and Lanna whipped her skirt down to her boots and sat.
The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.
In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides.
William had looked kind of stupid wearing it the day before, but now that he stood in the field with a bunch of other 'bucket-heads, he fit in.
At the foot of the garden, behind a clump of gooseberry-bushes, stood an arbour formed of a yellow buddleia.
He stood up, with slight agitation, and poured himself a second glass of champagne, having quickly, burpingly, drunk the first.
Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.
We stood in the kitchen as I heated beans and carne asada, some tortillas Consuela had made, my hands shaking.
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I stood there looking like the cat that ate the canary.... But he knows me too well and pondered out loud what I had been up to.
Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.
But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.
They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.
One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
And there came against the place as they stood a young learning knight yclept Dixon.
Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.
He stood still as much as he could, with his club-foot behind the other, so that it should not attract notice.
He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam.
Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.
Ned Newton stood beside Tom in the control tower of the great tank as she started on her homeward way.
We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.
Whole families stood gawking at the massive statue, countdowning the five remaining minutes to the big one.
Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto.
Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.
He stood up, wasting precious seconds and knocking his chair over as he continued to stare upward through the window at the Crown Vic.
As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.
He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.
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That imprinted genes escape demethylation is, we now know, all that stood between science and the cloning of mammals for many years.
I'm delighted that you should admire Beecham. A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
The duty-man at the exit locks of the main building stood at his window and watched me curiously.
I was wearing a pair of elastic sides so, being a mug, slipped them off and put one on each of his horns. We all stood around for the photo.
The white eyeballs and white teeth of the horse, the panting flanks, the rigid legs all stood out eldritchly.
She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
At length they stood at the corner from which they had begun, and it had fallen quite dark, and they were no wiser.
She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her.
The mountain-ash berries across the field stood fierily out from the dark leaves, for a moment.
The aristocrats, who stood to lose an enormous amount of money, were bitterly opposed to this proposal.
Slate roofed and with liver-painted eaves, it stood in a weedy firbound garden.
We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land.
Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass.
I had a few questions for him myself, but I just stood there and stared. He had a fish-eating grin on his face.
When I saw my house on fire, the flabbergast overcame me and I just stood and stared, too shocked to comprehend what I was seeing.
The Upland Cinema stood on the corner of The Grove, the street where he had been born.
The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this fool-hardy boy had lost his mind.
The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg.
Blink stood next to Knot. The ghostling's lavender eyes widened as his hand gripped Knot's arm.
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At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood.
Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men!
My hair stood on end all over my body and my haphephobia, the fear of being touched, kicked into full gear.
The number of hotel rooms in London in 2015 stood at 138,769, and is expected to grow over the years.
Through his life, he always stood out from the crowd with his tiny frame and hornrimmed glasses.
Other features, loosely dated to phase 3, include the four Station Stones, two of which stood atop mounds.
They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.
His law was enacted, but Tiberius was murdered with 300 of his associates when he stood for reelection to the tribunate.
The Sheriff is Jonathan Tyler, who stood for the Green Party for York in the last general election.
Even where illegalism was the norm, he stood out, his career littered with examples of extortion, bribery and intimidation.
He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
Olaf Haraldsson stood down, unable to put up any fight, as his nobles were against him for his tendency to flay their wives for sorcery.
So she for those first few moments stood incomprehensive and stared with empty eyes.
It is inconceptible how any such man, that hath stood the shock of an eternal duration without corruption, should after be corrupted.
The inelegance of the ugly duckling stood in contrast to its ultimate life as a swan.
The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority.
Montfort stood little chance against the superior royal forces, and after his defeat he was killed and mutilated on the field.
He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
It also stood by its recommendation based upon its own analysis of scientific studies.
Neither side stood behind their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.
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Jones stood upon a point of law, of the inseparableness of the prerogative from the person of the king.
The officers Richard had appointed in Wales either joined Henry or stood aside.
In their recreations of the battle, Henry started by moving his army towards Ambion Hill where Richard and his men stood.
This has disappeared but is known to have stood at the time of the battle, in the vicinity of Apple Orchard Farm and North Farm, Dadlington.
He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in.
This isolated pocket of advanced economic development stood in stark contrast to the relative backwardness of most of the country.
However, they were also aware that the Rump might be all that stood in the way of an outright military dictatorship.
Under William III's will, John William Friso stood to inherit the Principality of Orange as well as several lordships in the Netherlands.
He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.
There were about 5000 privately owned waggons, and at any one time about 1000 stood at Shildon depot.
At the top of the stairs was a heavy door with a peephole. Flick banged on it and stood where her face could be seen through the judas.
That year, John Wilkes returned to England, stood as a candidate in the general election, and came top of the poll in the Middlesex constituency.
On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.
The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.
By late afternoon, the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington's forces from the escarpment on which they stood.
Candidates embracing Chartism also stood on numerous occasions in general elections.
He stood for the Liberals again in the 1923 general election, losing in Leicester.
After leaving the premiership, Churchill spent less time in parliament until he stood down at the 1964 general election.
In the fields along the route, and at the stations through which the train passed, thousands stood in silence to pay their last respects.
Admittance is open to all members of the Commonwealth, and in December 2008, stood at 46 out of the 53 member countries.
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This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall.
The bathroom door stood agape, and the peeling vinyl floor was bare.
Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.
He stood for election to a third term in 121 BC, but was defeated and then murdered by representatives of the senate with 3,000 of his supporters on Capitoline Hill in Rome.
This act increased support for military deployment, overseen by Reagan, which stood in place until the later accords between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
She escaped her mortal coil and moved out, looking back at herself as she stood motionless, clutching the stone that had become the link between her body and her spirit.
The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial.
Lake Bonneville, for example, stood where Great Salt Lake now does.
The hall was fitted up with an amphitheatrical descent of seats towards a platform, on which stood a desk, two lights, a stool, and a capacious antique chair.
We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.
The Russian Empire stood to benefit from the decline, whereas the Habsburg Empire and Britain perceived the preservation of the Ottoman Empire to be in their best interests.
Instead of satiation Hitler menaced Poland, and at last Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dropped appeasement and stood firm in promising to defend Poland.
The Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argued that a temple to the goddess Diana had stood during Roman times on the site occupied by the medieval St Paul's Cathedral.
The place where his court stood is now beneath the waters of the lake.
After a while he descended the steps into the road again and he stood there and looked all about him and listened for any sound at all but there was nothing.
He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.
It was a hotel and restaurant from 1924 until 2004, when it was bought by a developer and stood empty while conservationists and Doyle fans fought to preserve it.
Edward stood by his political allies and strongly opposed the Provisions.
It stood until 1972 when it was relocated downtown, sparking protests from the neighbourhood, literary fans, and preservationists of Olmsted's vision for the Back Bay Fens.
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He stood down as an Assembly Member in 2003 to work on a research project to study the inner workings of the sun from the observatory near the North Pole.
The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood.
Nevertheless, in 1904 he stood in the London County Council elections.
A few old friends, acquaintances and pressmen stood by his grave.
Kate stood by the window, looking out drearily at the matinal sunlight.
Sullivan and the writer Guy Davenport, but it was the association with Mullins and Kasper that stood out and delayed his release from St Elizabeths.
Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming.
A scandal arose with her and the Lord Admiral to which she stood trial.
Logan stood at the counter, cradling shards of blue glass in his hands and weeping broken-heartedly over them as he tried to glue them back together.
The initials stood for Tea Club and Barrovian Society, alluding to their fondness for drinking tea in Barrow's Stores near the school and, secretly, in the school library.
At the end of the 12th century, Birkenhead Priory stood on the west bank of the Mersey at a headland of birch trees, from which the town derives its name.
Henry VIII's cousin once removed, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, stood sponsor for Mary's confirmation, which was held immediately after the baptism.
On the other side stood Kazimir Malevich, Anton Pevsner and Naum Gabo.
Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs.
Vaughan Williams had no wish to follow in the traditions of Stanford's idols, Brahms and Wagner, and he stood up to his teacher as few students dared to do.
Unferth stood beside him, his huge arms folded on his byrnie.
General George Monck, who had been Cromwell's viceroy in Scotland, feared that the military stood to lose power and secretly shifted his loyalty to the Crown.
A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corral where five scrubby horses with big heads stood looking solemnly at the horses passing in the road.
The Conservatives, Greens and four other minor parties also stood.
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An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
The former Labour MP Simon Danczuk stood as an independent candidate, after being banned from standing as a Labour candidate and then leaving the party.
By his own admission, he was not a very conscientious student, but Fogerty liked him and later said that he and Ashcroft stood out among her many pupils.
The two little children stood mumchance, but with a kindly air.
When finally, sometimes after a prolonged arduous effort, his answers came forth, his statement stood before us like a newly created piece of art or a divine revelation.
The SFA stood by this proclamation, despite pleas to the contrary by the Scotland players, supported by England captain Billy Wright and the other England players.
A number of local issue parties also stood in single constituencies.
Two matches in the 1974 World Cup stood out for West Germany.
He then stood for a minute or two before kissing him on the forehead.
When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes.
I turned, and lo! by my side there stood A being of strangest naturehood. Startled, I glanced him o'er and o'er, Wondering I noted him not before.
The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.
Britain and its Empire stood alone against Hitler and Mussolini.
Churchill stood again for the seat of Oldham at the 1900 general election.
It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob.
Peter May stood down as captain in 1961 following the 1961 Ashes defeat.
The original church stood in the neighbouring hamlet of Carrow Hill and was rebuilt in Llanvaches in 1802, when a suitable plot of land was found.
Jones stood down at the 2001 election to spend more time in the Assembly.
A fat little kewpie clutching a pink heart place card stood at each cover.
The house in which she lived meanwhile stood in Bridge Street until the 1970s, when it was demolished to make way for the second Bridge Street development.
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The older woman waddled over and squeezed into a booth opposite the counter while the young one stood and ordered a big box of day-olds and two quarts of hot chocolate.
De Bohun lowered his lance and charged, and Bruce stood his ground.
I never demagogued on our serious questions and stood for civil liberties.
As they stood before the high altar, Bruce struck Comyn with a dagger.
Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words.
The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.
We stood no chance against the sheer weight of such dullardry. Our leather pants, tattoos, track marks and distorted guitars were never going to make it.
She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels.
There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.
Interesting finds have been made in the areas where the fiercest fighting occurred on the Government left wing, particularly where Barrell's and Dejean's regiments stood.
Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it.
Then she stood in front of the mirror and carefully shaved her na-na.
One aspect the government stood firm on was the mergers of small counties.
The island of Lady Holme is named after the chantry that formerly stood there and in former centuries was sometimes called St Mary Holme or just Mary Holme.
When Carlile stood down it ended the direct link with the professional Liberal barrister MPs that had been existent in the Welsh Liberal party for its whole history.
Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.
However, as the sole Liberal Democrat representative in the new Assembly, she stood down as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats the day after the election.
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
The mall is located where the historic Hollywood Hotel once stood.
Unlike previous occasions on which this had happened, the Allied forces stood firm against the attack and supplies were dropped to them by parachute.

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