It is an awful contemplation, and in sitting down in my now solitary chamber to its retrospection, I find that nearly half a century has passed since its transactions swept over Europe like a desolating blast.
In sitting down now to my retrospective task, I find myself writing this, my second preface to the story of "Thaddeus of Warsaw," just thirty years from the date of its first publication.
Mary, sitting down, and taking up the little lambswool shoe, that Amy had been knitting.
But are you sure," he said, sitting down on a stone hard by and taking one of her hands, "are you sure that you would not like to go with us?
Fleda pulled off her hood and sitting down watched in unusual silence the old lady's operations.
Lady Dedlock asks on sitting down to dinner, still deadly pale (and quite an illustration of the debilitated cousin's text), whether he is gone out?
Edith is sitting down to play, and I just know enough of music to turn over the leaves for her; and besides, Aunt Shaw won't like us to talk.
Adam said he liked Dinah's cap and gown better nor my clothes," said Hetty, sitting down demurely.
Dinah raised her gently from her knees and seated her on the pallet again, sitting down by her side.
Children were loitering along this path or sitting downbeside it; and we met one little maid, passing from village to village, intent on some errand.
On sitting down, he does not throw off nor at all disturb the cloak.
He had risen before Ellen, in order to avoid the painfulness of sitting down to breakfast with her.
When Pelle came to fetch his father the four of them would be sitting down to some childish game.
All the children like you," said Gilbert, sitting down on the stone step.
She's feeling calmer and more composed," answered Marilla, sitting down on Anne's bed .
Excuse me and go on," said Mr. Harrison, sitting down again.
Now the fun begins," thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile beside the old prince.
What a treasure of a wife you have," said she, sitting down on the sofa, facing her brother.
Prince Vasili was not having any supper: he went round the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of the guests.
Wireman [Illustration: "What are you doing, Phronsie, sitting down in the middle of the stairs?
What are you doing, Phronsie, sitting down in the middle of the stairs?
He then came back, and, sitting down at his table, pulled out the middle drawer.
Vandeloup laid the pistol down on the mantelpiece with a laugh, lit a cigarette, and, sitting downin a chair opposite Gollipeck, began to talk.
He went back into the conservatory, and, sitting down in his old place, commenced to review the position.
Now we shall sing a song to end the day," she said, sitting down at the old piano.
To sit here under the hazel bush and read a fine book is really a pleasure not many children have," said Miss Dorner, sitting downon the bench.
I approve of the singing school, but especially of sitting down to breakfast.
Sitting down on a stool, she put her head in both hands and began to cry bitterly.
Here am I," said Suzanne, sitting down on the bed and jangling the curtain-rings back along the rod with despotic vehemence.
Mademoiselle Cormon, sitting down on the bench in the long antechamber like a person overcome with fatigue.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sitting down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
