I sat there, tense, gripping the arms of my chair.
I remember, as I sat there, a man, a club acquaintance, a bore from whom I had fled many a time, came and settled down beside me and began to talk.
And I sat there, my heart beating with disgust and desire, disgust as at the contact of anything accessory to a crime and desire as at the temptation of some infamous and mysterious thing.
He wished to speak, but found nothing to say, and so sat there, expressing all his ardor by pressures of the hand.
We sat there looking at each other, fork in the air, still listening, and shaken by a kind of supernatural fear.
He sat there huddled, his hair ruffled, his hands clasped round his knees, for how long he did not know.
For a long time he sat there in the dark, the moon through the skylight above laying a pale smear which lengthened slowly towards him down the stairway.
He sat there huddled' forward, staring into the night.
But after Colonel Arran had gone she went slowly to her room, sat down at her desk, sat there a long, long while thinking.
In his ears rang the cries of the wounded; all around him he was conscious of people passing to and fro; and he sat there, face covered, deadly tired, already exhausted to a stolidity that verged on stupor.
When we drank to the strong and gentle Carolus Magnus Augustus, we both rose, Thiodolf and I, and bowed before the empty chair, as though he sat there in bodily presence.
He sat there in silence, revolving plans against these barbarians, who had forgotten the wisdom of the ancients.
He left me, and I sat there alone in the darkness.
But the notion that Mr. Ladley had killed his wife and thrown her body into the water came to me as I sat there.
Though I sat there in the awful silence (the roar of water and thunder only emphasized the stillness) full half an hour, I was not encouraged by another nibble.
As we sat there, awed a little by this presence, the clouds were gathering from various quarters and drifting towards us.
While he sat there, terrified, he saw something move in the brush, which had been set in the ice to mark out the road; and when he discovered who it was that walked there, his fear grew more and more intense.
The boy shuddered as he sat there on the goose's back.
The longer he sat there, the more impossible it seemed to him to find any solution.
So he sat there, talking of the dead, and one couldn't notice any feeling in him.
He was like a sun-intoxicated bird; as he sat there, quite at peace, a wave of joy would suddenly come over him.
He sat there, making no effort to dispel the misery that had come over him, and was working its will with him, while with half an ear he listened to the life around him.
While he sat there working he pursued the question in and out among his thoughts, so that he could properly consider it.
As I sat there by the fire I told them over one by one, remembering with warmth or amusement or concern this or that characteristic thing about each of them.
From the kitchen, as we sat there, we could hear the engaging sounds of preparation, and busy voices, and the tinkling of dishes, and agreeable odours!
The armour of political artifice, the symbols of political power, had now all dropped away from him, and we sat there together, two plain and friendly human beings, arriving through stress and struggle at a common understanding.
It came to me so humorously as I sat there in my buggy that I could not help laughing aloud.
I sat there in mute astonishment at the proceedings of this gray haired criminal.
As I sat there in my solitude the question came to my mind as to what part of the great political play I would be engaged in were I a free man.
As I sat there in that desolate abode of the disgraced, I tried to look out down the future.
I sat thereon the ground, and in silence watched the other prisoners eat.
I couldn't go on the wharf for fear she'd want to come with me, and I sat there as patient as I could, till a little clicking noise made us both start up and look at each other.
She flung 'erself down in the chair agin with 'er back to me, and for nearly three-quarters of an hour we sat there without a word.
They 'elped me to a chair when I got better, and I sat there 'elpless while the cap'n went on talking.
His surroundings as he sat there, gaze bent upon the typewritten pages, were those of any other professional man.
If ever knowledge of portentous evil were written upon a man's face it was written upon his, as he sat there at the head of the table, staring straightly before him.
I thought that he looked very haggard, as he sat there in the early morning light, dressed as for dinner.
He sat there trying to think back to just what it was he had been doing Friday afternoon.
He sat therein deep thought, and then at last he smiled a little.
For a long time he sat there, many emotions struggling in his face.
He sat there a minute longer dreaming before it, thanking God for a home, for work and love and happiness.
It was indeed with some consciousness of Things that were flinging their shadows on the horizon and were not as yet fully visible to him that he sat there.
But Peter felt curiously certain that Stephen was going to return; something held him in his chair and he sat there, with his hands on the deal table, facing the clock and listening.
This last fact bit him, as he sat there in the shop, with sudden and acute sharpness.
He was terrified, as he sat there, at the fury with which he hated him.
He was conscious, as he sat there, of the sound of many feet shuffling.
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