The male takes turns with his mate in sitting on the eggs.
If he were not sitting so close to me you could see better what paddles I have for feet.
Three of the four parent birds sittingon the nests were males.
These people interred their dead in the contracted or sitting position, which also was employed in most parts of Polynesia.
The immigrants whose arrival caused the institution of the dual system were a relatively fair people of superior culture who interred their dead in a sitting position and feared their ghosts.
He caught my eye, and came back to me, sitting near enough to talk with me in an undertone.
Tardif's boat was within a stone's throw, and I saw Olivia sitting in the stern of it.
I am thinking of thee as my daughter," he answered, leaning his hands and his white head above them, upon the top of the stick he was holding, and sitting so for some moments in silent thought.
She would mend it, sitting where you are now in the chimney-corner.
But the girls who were sitting on the hard benches by the table were still more squalid and dreary-looking.
Johanna and Julia were sitting side by side on a sofa, in the darkest corner of the room--though the light was by no means brilliant anywhere, for the three gas-jets were set in such a manner as not to turn on much gas.
I was sitting down for a few minutes on a low seat, between Minima's bed and one where a little boy of six years of age lay.
He had drawn me back into the green shade of the trees, and set me down upon the felled tree where I had been sitting before.
I was sitting so near to her that I could touch her with my hand, but she wanted me nearer--with my arm across her, and my cheek against hers.
Mam'zelle does not know that she is sitting on the grave of my little wife.
All the household were gone to the service; but I saw Tardif sittingoutside in my own favorite seat under the sycamore-tree.
My father was sitting by the empty grate, sobbing and weeping vehemently.
The lady is sitting in a orfice up-stairs, talking to another gent, with hair and eyes like hers, as black as coals, and the same look of brass on his face.
Poachers are ever on the look-out for these eggs, as a sittingof them fetches a high price; they are generally, when taken from the nest, placed under a common hen to be hatched.
The man was not rowing, but sitting in the stern and propelling the boat noiselessly with an Indian paddle.
In dense ranks, sitting erect like auks or penguins, the seriously grotesque little birds sentinelled their homes, maintaining a business-like quiet in strange contrast to the ear-splitting volubility of their neighbors.
Presently he made out the black shape of the female loon sitting on her nest and eying him.
Most of the time she went hungry, sitting sullen and desolate under the lee of the house, glaring out defiantly at the rush and battling tumult of the waves.
The body on which he was sitting formed his text, the jury was his congregation, and the newspaper reporters the vehicles by which his admonitions were conveyed to the nation.
Mr. Duney turned resolutely away from the pit, and called to his dog, who was sitting near the edge, regarding his master with blinking eyes and lolling tongue.
It was in this frame of mind that Mr. Oakham seated himself in the detective's sitting room.
He and Mr. Glenthorpe had dinner together in the little upstairs sittingroom which Mr. Glenthorpe kept for his own private use.
The abrupt manner in which Sir Henry addressed the hotel proprietor insensibly softened itself into the best bedside manner when he spoke to the patient on the carpet, who, from a sitting posture, was now endeavouring to struggle to his feet.
I went into the parlour, and saw the young man sitting near the door.
And, indeed, the prison warders sitting there with the impassive faces of officialdom might have been articles of furniture, so remote were they from displaying the slightest interest in the private matters discussed between the two.
I thought you'd be awfully bucked to hear the news, seeing that you were sitting at the next table to him yesterday morning.
The first was a small, comfortably furnished sitting room, where Mr. Glenthorpe and his guest had dined the previous night.
It was by the sea that he found her, sitting in one of the shelters on the parade, with her hands clasped in her lap, looking listlessly at a fisher-boat putting out from the yellow sands below.
I left him sitting there, and when Mr. Benson returned I told him, and he went in to him.
You would oftener find him in the woods, with a gun over his shoulder, or sitting by a trout brook, or lounging at the tavern.
It needed not the loose cards on the table near which the latter were sitting to tell me of their business in that room.
I heard nothing more except the murmur of voices in the bar, for a hand shut the partly opened door that led from the sitting room.
I inquired of a stupid, sleepy-looking man, who was sitting in a chair behind the bar.
Mrs. Slade takes a chair, andsitting by the sleeping child, gazes long upon her pale sweet face.
He was sitting at a table, alone, with his eyes wandering about the room.
I saw him with Tom Wilkins as I came over," said one of the men who was sitting in the porch.
Sitting with his snuff-box before him, and his head bent down, he looked ill at ease, and kept turning the folios of his notes.
When the child became strong and able to sit there was another feast for "the sitting of the child.
The two looked into the house, and there they saw a number of gods from the mountain called Fiso sitting in the doorway.
Presently he recovered consciousness, felt the weight of some one sitting on his shoulders and covering his neck, and the first sounds he heard was a dispute going on between two as to which of them had the right to cut off his head!
The decked part at the bow was the seat of honour, and there you generally saw the chief of the travelling party sitting cross-legged, at his ease, while the others were paddling.
They talked among themselves for a while, and it ended in one after another sitting down, after having passed on his right to speak to another.
The Tangaloans then prepared a game at sitting in the rain to see who could endure it longest, hoping to kill some of them with cold.
It was wrapped up in a leaf, and had been passed by the gods inside the house to those sitting in the doorway.
Tuitopetope and his brother, who were sitting on the beach as they passed along, asked where they were going with that bundle of property.
One day, however, he was sitting on a rock outside the cave when he heard an unusual noise.
And the men whom we had kept from going to business had made, among them, hundreds of thousands of dollars, just by sitting still.
She had been sitting disconsolately on the gunwale when the means struck suddenly into her tortuously working mind and acted upon her demeanor like a sight of sunflower seeds, of which she was prodigiously fond.
And it was pleasant to think of him as sittingalone while a fine celebration was banging and roaring in the very next car--a celebration to which even an ex-convict had been invited.
He had been sitting in his shirt sleeves, but now he rose and put on his coat as if the sight of the huge and proud yacht had chilled him.
Wouldn't you be cross," said the young man, "if you had to look forward to sitting up all night in a cold smoking compartment?
He could remember sitting comfortably in the mud at low tide and being convulsed with laughter at his mother's efforts to find a fat mussel that was within a few inches of her hand.
While sitting thus, sounds broke on my ear which were sometimes of a hurried, sometimes of a prolonged and sustained character, and were repeated in softened tones by the echoes around.
And so far from Strephon spending his time in sitting by a purling stream playing "roundelays" upon a pipe,--poor fellow!
For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David.
Thus to a people sittingin darkness, and in the shadow of death, light is sprung up.
Then, the king returning, and sitting down upon the throne, delivered the sceptre to the Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, to be carried before him: thereafter the lion king of arms rehearsed the royal line of the kings upward to Fergus the First.
After the blessing was pronounced, the minister went to the pulpit and had the following exhortation, the king sitting still upon the throne.
Be wise by their example: you are now sitting upon the throne of the kingdom, and your nobles about you.
We have greater reason than the leprous men sitting in a time of great extremity at the gates of Samaria, to say one to another, "We do not well, this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace.
This quartet manifested no little astonishment upon beholding Mollie, sitting like a fair young princess in her fine equipage, and she experienced a little secret amusement as she encountered their wondering gaze.
So spoke Maria Kimberly, as she stood in the doorway leading from the kitchen into the dining-room, where Squire Talford was sitting at his desk filling out some checks to settle his monthly bills.
Then he glanced somewhat doubtfully at Philip, who during the last half-hour, had been sitting silent and apparently preoccupied, and wearing a strangely depressed air.
There they found him five hours later, sitting before his desk, his head bowed upon his outstretched arms, unconscious and almost rigid.
Mollie had sprung to a sitting posture after touching the third button and was prepared for duty.
A minute later they were rolling swiftly up-town, sitting hand in hand and feeling as if an enchanted future lay before them.
Mollie, sitting suddenly erect, as if some new thought had taken possession of her.
It seemed like a dream to be sitting there and know that, for the moment, at least, he was a millionaire, while his old-time enemy and his proud mother were groveling before him in the valley of humiliation.
His eye brightened; he was like all the rest of us, pleased with any interest taken in him and his; he turned over on his pillow, and I lifted him into a half-sitting position.
The outhouse would become my study, and I have a couch-bed on which I am now sitting (in bed) and writing to you.
While Wordsworth, his sister, and Charles Lamb were out one evening, sitting in the arbour of T.
I entered to claim the universal hospitality of this country; but instead of the life and comfort usual in these lonely houses, I saw dirt, and every appearance of misery--a pale woman sitting by a peat fire.
I was as dry as if I had been sitting by the fire.
He fled from me, because "he could not answer for his own sanity, sitting so near a madman of genius.
Even if we grudge it to the thieves, we love it because of the sense it gives us that we are no longer struggling in the water but sitting in triumph on the dry land.
He used to practise strengthening his will every evening by buying almonds and raisins or some sort of sweet thing, and sitting down before them by the hour without touching them.
There are days when I feel like turning a blind eye to 'bus number 13, and when a crow, sitting and cawing on the roof of the church opposite, gives me the shivers.
If you resolved to learn German, for instance, there would be very little intoxication to be got out of a single sitting face to face with a German grammar.
My heart sank for the moment, but in the end I settled down to acceptance of the fact that there was a fool sitting in an editor's chair who could resist even the power of farthings.
About two months ago I wassitting one night in the depths of gloom expecting news of a tragedy.
Like lightning the Army boy reached for the creese, and the finish of that general movement found Sergeant Hal Overton sitting up and aiming a desperate slash at the cord about his ankles.
Even if you found him sitting on his back porch he'd be prepared to swear that some native had sent up the kite without his knowledge or permission.
It was so restful, sitting here, that when he had disposed of the second order, he paid his account but did not rise at once.
Their chief they foundSitting beside his tent and dark-ribb'd ship.
Nestor, sitting at the table with Machaon, is alarmed with the increasing clamour of the war, and hastens to Agamemnon; on his way he meets that prince with Diomed and Ulysses, whom he informs of the extremity of the danger.
There are always three standing at a time the first not sitting down again till the second has drank to a third man.
Through the gloom he made out a solitary figure sitting on a rock far removed from the campfire, about which the rest were gathered.
Raynor had awakened by this time and was sitting up on his mat listening sleepily.
Jack was right; the boy sitting in the reading room was indeed the formerly ne'er-do-well son of the man who had headed the plot to steal the naval code, though what he could be doing in Bomobori neither of the boys could guess.
The fact is that it is not easy to keep peoplesitting in a theatre; and unless the idea of holding their attention predominates with the author, they will walk out, and he will not be able to deliver the rest of his story.
Some of us were sitting on our heels about a little flame in a new clearing; all of us were alien in that clearing; one of us was white.
Yet how many of us delight in sitting Buddha-fashion, or as near to it as we can attain, when the ban of society is lifted!
He passed most of his days sitting in the headmaster's office, studying demurely when that gentleman was present, and making paper flying-machines when surveillance relaxed.
The solitude of her little old white house, sitting retired from the village street among its lilac trees and syringas did not frighten or depress her.
I have seen him sitting under the eaves of his little hut, by his little table spread with a checkered cloth, his gramophone beside him, trying, with its tale of the old grouse gunroom, to divert that lonely meal.
It was with peoplesitting all around me, and the engine puffing noisily away on an up grade, that my delighted eyes first fell on the one-flowered pyrola.
It enables one to spend long periods of time in the lowest of umbrella tents, or to rest on wet ground or sharp stones where actual sitting down would be impossible.
When at an opera or concert I see some one sitting rapt, listening with open mouth, I do not think of it as ill-bred.
They learned all they knew while sittingon a bench.
The first annual dinner of the ---- Club was held in the Club Rooms on Saturday evening, a large number sitting down to an excellent coal collation.
I let myself into my flat to find a young woman sitting on one of those comfortless chairs designed by upholsterers for persons of second quality who are bidden to wait in the hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
