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Example sentences for "she stood"

  • Finally, but not before I had had leisure to grow uneasy, she stood up and walked on more slowly.

  • I looked at them and as she stood looking at them in dull, entranced perplexity--I wondered how I had come to resist the temptation.

  • A little recovered from her fright, she stood looking at me in great wonder; and at last she had a thought-- 'You are not well?

  • As she stood with a tall hedge of sunflowers behind her, I started to see how beautiful she was.

  • She stood up and carefully dabbed her eyes.

  • She stood there, where he had so often dreamed of seeing her, but still holding him off with the aloofness that both chilled and inflamed him, and with a question in her eyes.

  • But she wondered, as she stood there, if that were entirely true.

  • She stood for a time by her window, looking out at the city.

  • She stood in his path, passively resistant, stubbornly brave.

  • She stood in the middle of the hall and relieved Easton of the gloves and fan he was carrying.

  • She stood up too and turned so that she and Benham both faced the younger man.

  • She stood for a moment looking out across the lights and the dark green trees, and then she turned to him.

  • She stood facing us, and never while I live shall I forget that which I saw in her eyes.

  • Even Tom, intent upon the trail, turned and laughed at Polly Ann as she stood clutching me.

  • She stood facing me, undaunted, and I knew that she had come to fight for what was left her.

  • I shall never forget her as she stood, a slender figure of sorrow, looking down at us, the tears glistening on her cheeks.

  • Antoinette had inherited the energies as well as the features of the St. Gre's, yet there was a painful moment as she stood there, striving to put down the agitation the sight of me gave her.

  • For a moment after, she stood still, then in headlong haste suddenly mounted the stairs.

  • She stood by the window, white and still, and haggard and old--as she had stood when she first faced him in her widow's weeds.

  • Supporting herself against the wall, she stood there in hiding, her eyes fastened in hungering suspense on the manuscript in Mr. Neal's hand.

  • She stood looking at her pupil for a moment in dead silence, and then left the room.

  • She stood there in triumph, tall, beautiful, and resolute.

  • As she stood there, staring down moodily at her feet, she heard the triple click-click-click of a bicycle-bell under her window.

  • She stood up and walked toward the buggy.

  • She stood up, and he sprang to his feet also, and passed his arm through hers with an air of authority.

  • She stood a minute listening to his small solitary song; then she rejoined the trail and began to mount the hill to the pine-wood.

  • She stood in the middle of the room; her white garments lay like foamy waves at her feet, and among them the swathings of her face: it was lovely as a night of stars.

  • She stood in front of the door by which she had entered, and did not come nearer.

  • She stood erect as a column, regarding me.

  • She rose, she stood upright, a woman once more, and said, "I will not repent.

  • She stood for a moment, then came gliding in, as if she would join the dance.

  • It was a great morning when I could tell Ada all this as she stood out in the garden; and it was a great evening when Charley and I at last took tea together in the next room.

  • Consequently, though she was very light, she was out of breath and could not speak at first, as she stood panting, and wiping her arms, and looking quietly at us.

  • My little maid's face was so eager and her quiet hands were folded so closely in one another as she stood looking at me that I had no great difficulty in reading her thoughts.

  • She stood behind my chair with her hand upon it.

  • Her little face looked very white, as she stood on the bank, and, somehow, Chad saw it all that night in the river and among the trees and up among the stars, but he little knew what it all meant to him or to her.

  • She stood in the doorway after they had waved good-by from the head of the river--the smile gone and her face in a sudden dark eclipse.

  • Little Nero was frightened, fearing she was angered; she stood so straight and tall, but she said nothing and passed on.

  • She stood up gazing at it, in such bewilderment to find her eyes upon it that she scarce knew what she did.

  • When she at last reached the entrance-hall, coming into it through a door she pushed open, using all her childish strength, she stood in the midst of it and gazed about her with a new curiosity and pleasure.

  • She stood by his side and not before him, and her smiles and wit were bestowed upon him as generously as to others.

  • For it was a Thing, and as she stood staring, with wild heaving breast, this she saw.

  • She stood up and stared down at the clutter of the breakfast table.

  • She stood there a moment in the early-morning half-light.

  • She stood on the landing looking down at him.

  • She stood in the doorway and the Very Young Wife went by on the arm of her husband.

  • She stood face to face with him, and his voice cut across her speech and made her stop abruptly.

  • She stood, as it were, directed doorward, with her eyes watching every movement, listening to him, repelled by him and yet dimly understanding.

  • She stood up and he sat down at the microscope, and for a time he was busy scrutinizing one section after another.

  • She stood on the mat instead, and looked down on him.

  • She stood up as she spoke, and put down her cup beside Miss Garvice's.

  • As she stood by the window, listening gravely to them, the homely face and waiting figure came into full relief.

  • She made no sign, shed no tear, as she stood, watching him go.

  • Something that she saw on the dark sardonic face, as the red gleams lighted it, made her start convulsively, as if she would go to him; then controlling herself, she stood silent.

  • She stood a little way off, her great brown eyes flashing with tears.

  • Less than six feet away from me she stood, arrayed in the gauzy dress of the harem, her fingers and slim white arms laden with barbaric jewelry!

  • She stood watching me; even through the coarse veil I could see how her eyes glittered.

  • Yet I have only to close my eyes at this moment to see her as she stood, one finger raised to her lips, enjoining us to silence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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