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Example sentences for "stood thus"

  • Now as he stood thus, beholding that mighty flame, Walkyn and Roger paused beside him, and stood to scowl upon the fire with never a word betwixt them.

  • For a while he stood thus, gazing towards where he knew his father yet knelt in prayer for him, then turned he slowly, and went his appointed way.

  • For a long moment he stood thus, then, quick and sudden, he threw wide the door and stepped into the room.

  • For a moment I stood thus, swaying forward at the very edge of the roof, my eyes measuring again and again the hazy, uncertain distance stretching away toward that slight undulating shadow.

  • I know not how much of the truth he suspected, but for a moment we stood thus, I half imagining he contemplated a leap at my throat.

  • Yet, even as I stood thus, peering uneasily into the gloom, I was thoroughly startled at the sudden booming forth of a voice, apparently issuing from the darkest corner.

  • He stood thus for a while, with his hands before his face, his form bowed down and trembling like an oak swayed by a storm.

  • His head fell upon his breast, and he stood thus lost in deep thought for a while.

  • And as I stood thus, down to me through the sunny air came the song of a mounting lark who, as if knowing my thought, seemed striving to sing forth something of the ineffable happiness that thrilled me.

  • As I stood thus, with my eyes upon the indistinct mass, I presently distinguished a figure running towards me and, as he came up, recognized Adam.

  • So, for a full minute we stood thus, staring into each other's eyes, and once again I saw the hairs of his golden beard curl up, and outwards.

  • Now as I stood thus, lost in frowning contemplation of my enemy, he groaned of a sudden and starting to his elbow, stared up at me haggard-eyed.

  • And as he stood thus, feet wide apart, tapping at his chin with his glittering hook and looking down on Joanna, she, leaning back against the side of the cave, stared up at him eye to eye.

  • Now as I stood thus I could not but be conscious of her glowing, vigorous beauty, her body's noble shape and the easy grace of her as she sat her fretting horse, swaying to his every movement.

  • Now as I stood thus, raging bitterly at my impotence, I bethought me that I had seen but three men run and, turning about, hasted back to deal with the fourth.

  • Now at this she loosed the bell-rope very suddenly and, covering her face with her hands, stood thus awhile: "God pity me!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are bound; face downwards; first sight; just men made perfect; large tracts; obtained from; public address; sand and gravel aggregates; small pool; stood alone; stood away; stood before; stood erect; stood gazing; stood over; stood quite; stood ready; stood still; stood stock; stood thus; stood upon; stood very; trades unions; who says; with such; women teachers