sit down 'be seated' stand 'be standing; be upright' sit 'be seated' stand up 'be standing; be upright' crouch 'sit on one's heels' kneel 'rest one's weight on one's knees' hunker 'sit on one's heels' hunker down 'sit on one's heels' lie 'be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position' scrunch 'sit on one's heels' scrunch up 'sit on one's heels' sprawl 'sit or lie with one's limbs spread out' squat 'sit on one's heels'
dangle recline straddle hang squat stoop jut lie roost project bow tilt crouch hover loom lean balance bend sag perch stand kneel tower sit suspend rest lounge protrude plop nestle slope yaw loll fly swing rise swag sprawl open
squat 'FN: to be in a position low to the ground in which one's knees are bent and the heels close to or touching the buttocks or thighs. ' stoop 'FN: to bend one's body forwards and downward' bend 'FN: to be in a position in which one's body is folded, usually at the waist or the knees' sit 'COD: to be in a position in which one's weight is supported by one's buttocks rather than one's feet and one's back is upright. ' lie 'FN: to be in a horizontal position on a supporting surface' sprawl 'COD: sit, lie, or fall with one's limbs spread out in an ungainly way. ' huddle 'COD: curl one's body into a small space. ' hunch 'FN: to sit or stand in a position in which one's shoulders and the top of one's body are bent forward ' shrink 'FN: To reconfigure the body into a fetal position or into a smaller size.' lean 'COD: be in or move into a sloping position. ' kneel 'COD: fall or rest on a knee or the knees. ' crouch 'FN: to be in a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down. ' stand 'COD: be in or rise to an upright position, supported by one's feet. ' slouch 'COD: stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way. '
In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm The sick man lay in bed all day the books are lying on the shelf In church you have to kneel during parts of the service We had to stand for the entire performance!
Examples from VerbNet
They stood the statue on the pedestal. John slouched. On the pedestal stood a statue. There stood on the corner a statue. The statue stood on the corner.
Examples from SemCor
Marty_Land stood alone on a red-clay road as storm_clouds gathered ominously in_the_sky again. Statues and other monuments that stood there were stolen, mostly by the waves of Crusaders. Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament_Chairman_Clifford_Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when Palmer missed the putt. For Rachel, conceded to be the prettiest of the Szold girls- and she did make a pretty picture sitting in the grape-arbor strumming her guitar and singing in her silvery tones- there was no particular March counterpart; but both groups were so closely_knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian. `` So help me, Crouch, I 'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I 'm going_to hear you admit killing him. His head hung over the boards of Katie 's stall; before it was sprawled the mangled corpse of the bearded stranger. If any among the hardy hundreds who sat in the downpour are in doubt about how it comes_out, let them take comfort. They all sat around and drank ice_water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time. The men he would take_back across the river stood there, but he turned_away from them. Styka sat beside him and pumped his hand excitedly. Rocco_Vecchio- a, haggard Vecchio- was standing there, flanked by two men in the uniforms of armored transport guards. He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living_room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving. I came_back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low, and the kid walks over to me, looks up, and says: Here, in the old days- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between. A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea_tray resting_on the backs of three giant elephants, which in_turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise. I sat there with the faint odor of charcoal-broiled steaks tantalizing my nostrils and occasionally catching the aroma of coffee. They had been sitting too long to be able to stand_up easily. It was Giselle, the fille_de_chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked_up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird. She stood frowning and chewing her lip. She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes. Gun went to the door, which was open, and stood at attention while Orville_Torrence_Killpath, in full uniform, finished combing his hair. `` Are you referring, sir'', asked Helva politely,`` to the Dark_Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin''? They were sitting on their heels, rider fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon. This used_to be part of every child 's bag_of_tricks, but few children can do it today; some are actually incapable of rolling forward and are completely confused when not sitting or standing upright. It is said that the eccentric Timothy_Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion. A_few yards beyond the group of men, a man 's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra. He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread_out like a serpent with two heads. ``'' Do you see that pretty girl standing next to the car with slacks on``? The total process of evangelism reaches the crescendo when the group of new members stands before the congregation to declare publicly their faith and to be received into the fellowship of the Church. After_that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be_released. He fell on his side across the lowest step, rolled_over once, then lay still. When he opened the door, there stood Eugene, on his way out_of the apartment. The subject he liked most was the female_body, which he painted in every state- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace. She stood for a moment, rain dripping from the trees over her head, thinking_of Maude. She lay there, making no effort to get_back on her feet. It raced closer and they could see a woman with white hair, sitting astride an upright branch. The action centers about a group of outspoken and offbeat students sitting around a table in a cafeteria and their collective and ultimately fruitless search for a cup of hot coffee. After he 'd got_out fresh liver for Bast, he paused to look at her crouched daintily over her dish. Some women can sit and sew, crochet, tat or knit by_the_hour, and look calm and relaxed and turn_out beautiful work. So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator_pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old_maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help. I can sit here in the car while you walk around the corner''. He stood looking down for a_few seconds, then backed_up two or three paces from the edge. In the heat of the summer, the garden solitudes were ours alone; our elders stayed in the dark house or sat fanning on the front_porch. 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. Once, sitting at the front window in his parents' room, he saw Kate come_out of her house. He staggered into the back seat and lay back, fighting for breath. A man with a baby in his arms stood there pleading for his wife who is on the other side with the rest of the family. This used_to be part of every child 's bag_of_tricks, but few children can do it today; some are actually incapable of rolling forward and are completely confused when not sitting or standing upright. Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral_parlor on Pennsylvania_Avenue. She stood sipping and chewing and watching. They lay, with the_birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back_room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem. The land lies ready for the coming onslaught. The candles were lighted, and we sat on split mats among the village notables. Silence stood in front of her, waiting, and in back of her, blocking her retreat. When we were fighting, a_few of our orthodox people were lying down in the roads so we could not pass. Every_night they all went_to Mama and Papa Albright 's, and sat on the open front_porch, where they could get the breeze. He knelt down at his bed as long as he could kneel. If you 're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool- you_know- you just take these sides with the fringe on- see- and wrap' em right over you. The first time he was harnessed he stood like a gentle old mare; the crupper under his tail seemed to be old stuff. He stood with his back to the skiff. It made no sense to him** h He whirled around, suddenly hot all_over, finding the man who had been standing before him a_few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed- It is not difficult to see that the stamens of the catkin are always arranged in pairs, and that each individual flower is nothing but one such pair standing on a green, black tipped little scale. Abel sat and regarded the country which, spreading_out from both sides of the road, rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields. He saw Mose squatting by the hearth, breaking_up hardtack into a pan. The manager sat behind the group so he could see and count the hands that went_up, and the director wrote the numbers on the blackboard. Conrad hung_up and sat on the small telephone-booth bench, massaging his right leg. I found a parking place half a block away, sat in the car and waited. Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got_into her car she looked at the houses below. It had a gourmet 's corner( instead of a kitchen), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining_room, a sitting_room, a room for standing_up, a party room, dressing_rooms for everybody, even a room for mud. I have once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals. When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers. They cannot stop to grasp and embrace and sit in the back seat of cars along a dark lane. Cooper was beside his car, on the curb at the right, just standing there morosely; he did even look up. He got_up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her. Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by. Around the table sit Protestant, Catholic, and Jew. They headed in_that direction and, at San_Juan Capistrano_by-the-Sea came_upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission_Drive-in, eating a hot tamale. It stood some fifty paces from the edge of the bank. He stood flat-footed in the box, but not very close to the plate now. A thoroughly ingratiating company it is, and when the final curtain falls you may suddenly realize that you have been sitting with a broad grin on your face all evening. So the Christian_Youth_Crusade against Communisn developed and more_than 300 top teenagers and 65 adult advisers from Presbyterian_churches of the area sat enthralled at the four-hour program. This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather_than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick_out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below. I had to stand_up, with the ladies. So Mr._Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in_order to keep Mr._Blatz 's mind from funny things. For thirty minutes, Stanley_Gilborn stood there. It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property. When enough time had elapsed so_that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went_out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another. 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. He sits there remembering the tense moment before the ball was snapped; the churning of straining feet, the rasp of the canvas pants; the smell and feel of hot, wet woolen sleeves across his face. I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. I did offer any advice, but I certainly did not want to go_back to where the officer lay with his brains dashed out. Six months later, Hal_Yarrow stood in the observation_dome of the Gabriel and watched the ball of Earth dwindle above him. Jane sat receptive and interested. He sat for_a_while with his hands on his knees, watching the bend of her back as she gathered_up her things- a comb, a bottle of aspirin- to take upstairs and pack. You could not stand on dignity when you were soaked and muddied and your life was at stake. Finding the key under his shoe, he started the engine, and while it warmed_up he turned to her standing there in the fog, and said,`` Defrost the refrigerator''. He was standing in_front_of the mirror, tightening his tie. Mike_Deegan was standing beside it, facing the field. Sat there and as a woman sang, she kept getting thinner and thinner, right before my eyes, and the eyes of some 5500 other people. She lay still on the bed, her head hardly denting the pillow; sometimes she opened her eyes and looked_around, and sometimes she took a_little milk or soup. He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him. As_usual, Mrs._Crombie was standing in_the_midst of a confusion of cooking_utensils. At_the_same_time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr._Blatz was usually standing in his line_of_vision and it all seemed so simple that he did like to disclose his ignorance. So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator_pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old_maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help. Not to repel injury and uphold and improve pax-ordo means not simply to accept the misshapen order and injustice that challenges it at the moment, but also to start down the steep slope along which justice can find no place whereon to stand. I could evoke no further elaboration from her about this; but a_few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone,`` Your father despises you''! Everyone in the ball_park seemed to be standing and shouting. I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee_cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on_which the sultans sat cross-legged. We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes. It lay with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving, watching us carefully. I sat where I could watch the exit and realized I was hungry. I would have stood there and died there if left to myself, but Cousin_Simmons grabbed my arm in his viselike grip and fairly plucked me out of there; and_then I came_to some sanity and plunged away with such extraordinary speed that I outdistanced Cousin_Simmons by_far. Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle. More_often_than_not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting. From_where I sit it looks more like a nightmare. Over on the bank, the west bank, a man stood, calling to him. He had never heard so many bells, and as he lay there listening, he thought_of her scolding him for his remarks when he had looked up at the obelisk and the church at the top of the Spanish_Steps. I sat and watched proceedings. Only_too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined_up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right. They had Vermouth, sitting in_front_of a cafe. He would sit, slim-waisted and spare, on the edge of Scotty 's bed, his legs crossed so elaborately that the crossed foot could tap the floor. First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking_up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffee-cup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers. The seventeen men stood and stared at him for a moment longer. He saw no life, but still stood there for a time peering at the unlovely, his gaze continually returning to Papa-san. Kitti would lie in it no_more. He stared at the clerk who sat at a scarred and ancient fumed-oak desk stuffing envelopes. He, like most_of us, wants to be able to sit, to contemplate and be moved by the great outdoors. Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting. Underneath the big one, in the silent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller bell, the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddled_together in the cold winter air. Then he hunkered_down on the heels of his handmade boots, peered into the orderly chaos of axle, shock_absorber, and spring. Barbara asked, standing in the doorway. Hal felt Mary; he had_a_time keeping the tears from welling to his own eyes as he stood in the crowd in the observation_dome. Mike_Deegan was sitting on the bench, watching. At_last, sitting there, in the familiar surroundings, the truth began to sink_in. The reader meets a_few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted_with new members of the cast_of_characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms_race, her hair standing straight out. Kneeling, Cobb planted a sturdy knee in the small of his back, holding him pinned. Lying in the grass behind the brush clump, Warren looked about. She stood indecisively for a moment, then walked down the hall; he heard her knocking on another door. An old_man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more_than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches. `` I think we 'd better let it lay until we get a clearer picture of the ecological setup around here. Her husband was lying on the kitchen floor, police said. Creighton_Hague sat in his office above the Ione pit. The many-bodied girl lay near him. And she was made to fall_in_love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going_away when he really did have to, mad at their both got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go_by. He was disappointed to find a nervous, scrawny woman with a big hat standing at the door. Alex suppressed those expressions of relief which offered to prevail in his face and escape from his throat; unwarranted they were in_any_case for, as he stood facing the fille_de_chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower_room. John stood above him, his face ashen. Before him, mutilated, bleeding to death, they lay. Fritzie was on the couch reading; Laura was sitting in an easy_chair about eight feet away. Mike went over to Phil and stood over him. He wanted desperately to see Kayabashi defeated, the Communists in the village rooted_out, the mission standing triumphant, for in the triumph of the Lord he himself would be triumphant, too. Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him. Outside in the dressing_room, Frankie_Ricco sat on the bench dressed in his street_clothes. Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet:`` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies. Drenched and shaking, he stood near the sweet-smelling stall and dared to pat her muzzle. The sentry 's saddled horse stood picketed nearby, having been kept handy in_case of need. He jerked once in the grass and lay still. Sitting quietly on an equally big pork_barrel was another Judge_Smith ally, Georgia 's Carl_Vinson, chairman of the Armed_Services Committee. Sponsors may sit with them also. He sat beside Kate 's bed with the others throughout the morning, talking, talking of God 's will, while Kate lay staring angrily at him. In the meadow below, militia officers shouted at their men and on King_'s_Bridge two boys sat fishing. It must be that son who sat before her now, shriveled to half his size and half his senses. He stood very still, his heart thumping wildly. In 1899, Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands. Then he thought_of Aaron_Blaustein standing in his rich house saying:`` God is tired_of taking the blame. Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old_maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat_down. The women, keeping their voices low as they worked around the house or sat in the living_room, sounded like chickens shut_up in a coop for the night. She stood quite still, trying to focus upon a direction in_which to turn, a path to follow, a clue to guide her. He would lie in it no_more. Behind this is a minber or Moslem pulpit and near it a raised platform with golden grillwork, where the emperors and, after them, the sultans, sat. Mike sat quietly watching the manager come. His father would come upstairs and stand self-consciously at the foot of the bed and look_at his son. He sat stiff-backed in a chair that did not swivel, though it was obvious to Gun that Killpath felt his position as acting captain plainly merited a swivel_chair. But she sat on in stubborn silence. I sat by her on the divan. Piepsam calls the cyclist`` cur'' and`` puppy'' among other things, and at the crisis of his fit a little fox-terrier stands before him and howls into his face. Families go out to the edge of the terraces to sit on carpets around a samovar. 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. Gavin stood on the porch, a thin figure. The bed still showed signs of where Kitti had lain. They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast_pocket, passing it over silently. Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions. He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as_though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person 's hand. Gilborn stood there for a long_time. He had stood at a_little distance, studying her, as though he would walk_around next and look at the back of her head. The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside_door was a_hundred miles. Those men, lying in the huts, they did not know. He must construct transitions so_that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap. He has said,`` Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come_in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me''( Revelation 3: 20). He had sat beside Alexander_Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists. For moments he stood in water, shivering and gasping for breath. `` We just sit quiet and wait'', Prevot had said. `` I have sat many hours with this, Styka. After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word. Mark stopped the car and switched_off the lights and they sat looking_at the water, which, there being no moon out, could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars. Still the guards did not move, but stood inert, aloof from the slow scrambling man. He knelt slowly and dumped the corpse onto the floor of the tunnel. The Lady_Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her. There was no use in standing there in the drizzle, trying to find a link between Emile 's murder and opium in a cup of coffee. And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went_out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened. Then the figures which held his attention became a group of shattered trees, standing like the grotesques of a medieval damnation scene. Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool. Arrange a reserved section in the sanctuary where all new members may sit together. I do it, lots o' times- I like to lie in a hammock at night, by myself, when it 's all quiet. He was shorter and fatter than Owen, who felt good standing next to him. She remained squatting on her heels all_the_time we were there; like the man, she was entirely naked. One afternoon, as the women sat clucking softly, a new carload of people pulled_up at the gate. They are definitely in the same room with you, but your head starts to swing as though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis_court watching a spirited volley. 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. She stood there, watching Holden come_in, and she put the piece of toast in her mouth and bit_off one corner with a huge chomp of her white teeth. `` He just lay back there and waited for it'', Meek said. merchants from the bazaar bickering over a deal; a Bakhtiari khan in a cap and hacking jacket; dervishes who stand with the stillness of the blind, their eyes filmed with rheum and visions; the old Kajar princes arriving in their ancient limousines; students, civil_servants, beggars, musicians, hawkers, and clowns. Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance. She measured the distance from_where they stood to the men and the gun, measured the distance from the men to_the_back room. He was sitting on top of a log which was spinning round and around in the water. Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking_in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds. The thought of this lonely woman sitting at her window touched him, although he was even more touched by her plumpness. As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr._Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet. Standing in the shelter of the tent- a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped, no_longer drumming- Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels. Grabski sat in a sweat saturated undershirt, cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown. He crouched there. As our planes land the war materiel that kills pro-Western Katangans, we stand supinely bleating while Nehru 's troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our NATO ally, Portugal. Behind him on the steps of the little office sat old_man_Arthur; he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something. She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road. He was standing there, he thought, in Virginia, in the thickening dusk, in a costly greatcoat that had belonged_to another Jew. He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next. If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all night, Killpath would just have to go_out and drag Gun back by the heels once an hour; because he 'd be damned if he was going_to be a mid-watch pencil-pusher just to please his ulcerated pro-tem captain. Then she took lemonade to Marsh 's young aide where he sat in the cool of the big trees around the flower_garden. He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap, and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt, its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost. It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened. Hoag pushed open the door: at the far end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhouetted against the window, the rifle still raised; he stood with his feet apart on a kitchen_table he had dragged to the sill. At the top of the stairs he ran_into somebody standing there angrily in a dressing_gown. Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church. He crawled beneath the two supply wagons which stood between the buildings and peered around a corner. The subject he liked most was the female_body, which he painted in every state- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace. Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most_of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy. Sitting on her terrace, sitting in her parlor, sitting anywhere, she ground_an_axe of self-esteem. Bobby_Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from_time_to_time, but it seemed at_once that Howard sat much closer. And now Andrei sat on a train on_the_way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief. As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers. Under Yakov_Segal 's direction, it begins stirringly, as crouching Soviet and Nazi troops silently scan each other, waiting for the first surrender gesture. A man with a sketch_pad in hand sat with a large pink woman in a small office at the end of a long, dim corridor and made pencil lines on_paper and said,`` Is this more like it, Mrs._MacReady? What otherwise could`` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men_of_science and letters'' do when told that they had`` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried,' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar'''? After_all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen 's comprehension and control. The blue draped Virgin was still there, but no_one knelt before her now. After they had left, some of the people moved around, to find more comfortable places to sit. Gilborn wondered whether Kitti had lain in that same bed with&&& Who? Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet. It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time. When she came_back Eugenia was sitting at the kitchen_table with a pencil and envelope jotting_down words and figures. Wait''! cried the guard who ran from the hut to shout to other men standing about outside. Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sounds of the night on Yancey-6 138. He moved_over to the desk and stood looking at the papers on_it but not touching anything. Howard, who had been sitting against the wall, said he needed more fresh air, and took the spot on the edge of the porch where Bobby_Joe had been sitting. People stand at the wall giving_vent to their feelings, weeping, pounding it with their fists, pleading for loved_ones. As Viola sat there, a playful impulse overcame her to remove the shoes and socks from the unidentified feet and, as a prank, insert rosebuds between the toes. He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking about him. I remember standing in a corner, watching Jessica act the hostess, serving soft_drinks to her guests. Such_as now, when she sat at a table in the coffee_shop at the Officers' Club, having coffee and a hamburger to sustain her until dinnertime. Not_long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water_rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks. It was a_level at which some of the investors standing on the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented in the averages. It was not exactly panic they gave_way to, but they could not just sit there. When the police arrived, they found McClellan and the two lawyers sitting and staring silently. Sooner_or_later, all the gray Navy ships came_in here; if Tommy sat long enough, she would be sure to see all the young officers she had met in San_Diego and Long_Beach. She lay under the covers making jabbing motions with her forefinger telling me where to look_for the coffeepot. There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack. The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street. When he saw Tommy sitting alone, the tinkling sound stopped. Only at this moment- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty 's bed- she found herself examining how others might regard her. But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling- she came_back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute. Worry had a great_deal to do with_it; Stuart had been laid_off at the produce company and had to go_back to sitting in his father 's office, taking what salary his father could hand_out to him. They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a_few inches from the ground. He helped Kate and Juanita enlarge the flower_garden in the side_yard, where they sometimes sat in the still evenings watching the last fat bees working against the summer 's purple dusk. He rammed his mind into focus and said to the two ladies who lay pinkly nude beside him in the desert,`` That was a good bite. Figures seemed to crouch in the surrounding dark; in the distance he saw a band of men who seemed to advance and retreat even as he watched. Now she could let out the three parakeets they would be stepped_on or that Stowey would let them out one of the doors; she could dust the plants, then break_off suddenly and pick_up an old novel and read from the middle on; improvise cha-chas on the harp; and finally, the best part of all, simply sit at the plank table in the kitchen with a bottle of wine and the newspapers, reading the ads as_well_as the news, registering nothing on her mind but letting her soul suspend itself above all wishing and desire. He sits in the stands and he does n't like that. John closed his eyes and saw once_again the little niche in his mother 's bedroom, where she had knelt to tell the good Virgin of her needs. The white clad trees stood like specters in the February night. At one side of the stage a dancer jumps excitedly; nearby, another sits motionless, while still another is twirling an umbrella. Implements of wood and iron are available for close and hasty combat no_matter where a man stands. Joel came and sat mutely with her, sharing her pain and anguish, averting his eyes from the ice_packs on her bosom. When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces. A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden. He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target. He sat beside Kate 's bed with the others throughout the morning, talking, talking of God 's will, while Kate lay staring angrily at him. Isaac_Pitt, one of the men from Lincoln, had taken a musket_ball in his belly; and though he had found the strength to run with us, now he collapsed and lay on the ground, dying, the Reverend holding his head and wiping his hot brow. In the living_room, Miss_Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand. His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot. The woman covered with growing hands came and sat beside them. In_that beautiful place, among all those companionable and attractive people, he sat and smiled. 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. Little boys crowded_together on long wooden benches, and in_the_center of the room sat the teacher. Extensive observations by physicians during vaginal examinations have established the fact that a single finger inserted along the anterior wall( the top line of the vagina as the woman lies on her back) may cause a great_deal of distress in a virgin. Laguerre_Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet- and has the smoothest gait. When they had gone, he stood for a minute breathing_in the mustiness of old paper and leather which the busily thrumming air conditioner could n't quite dispel. Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from`` Life'', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather. `` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line_up for surplus food''. This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather_than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick_out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below. He stood stiffly erect, clutching the staff, his body half hidden by the limp cloth. A metal table and four chairs stood in the center. The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got_up and left the hotel, the doctor to go_to the conference_house and Alex to go_to the main post_office. Gallery_Director_John_Walker greeted the group, standing on one of the benches in the downstairs lobby to them. Two other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed. ( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.) Squatting, as if waiting. Aside from the fact that business was slow this time_of_year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr._Phillips had no worries at_all, and he said as much to Gun_Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour,$ 79.89 nothing down special! McBride staggered into the street, flopped sprawling in the stinging dust. There was no place to sit, but Watson walked slowly from the ladder to the window slits and back, stooping slightly to avoid striking his head on the heavy beams. He looked over at him, lying there, asleep, and he felt a wave of revulsion. She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it. Start with the class standing in a circle, with weight on the right foot and the left extended a_little way into the circle. Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason- I cannot help looking_around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street_corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad. Bobby_Joe and the boys would come_by, say`` How 's Granny''? and sit on the porch a while. It sometimes ended in death-like trances with many lying exhausted and panting on chair and floor. Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought_of Simms_Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air. They lay a_little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed. Agnese had been sitting quietly, listening with the serenity of the unaware. I stood at the bedside of my patient one_day and beheld a very sick man in terrible pain. He moved back to the wheel and stood there blowing, grasping the top of a spoke to still the trembling of his played-out limbs. He stood, panting, for a moment. Someone said that while we were standing here and arguing about it, would be gone; but Cousin_Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts. And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa_Maria he had_to keep a straight_face, not letting_on he had been there with Alberto. What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far_away, singing together?