stand

He stood patiently there, rather like a dumb animal, rather like a donkey looking over a gate. 🔊

Soames was standing near it, in his soft hat and his waterproof cape, all through the afternoon. 🔊

You wish to find yourself standing in that room, just past the swing-doors, this very minute, yes? 🔊

I remember the sound of carpenters' hammers all along Piccadilly and the bare chaotic look of the half-erected "stands." 🔊

Well, he had gone straight to the catalogue, of course,—to the S volumes,—and had stood long before SN-SOF, unable to take this volume out of the shelf because his heart was beating so. 🔊

I stood staring all ways, up the street, across it, down it. 🔊

Dazed, I stood there. 🔊

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