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Sentences starting with stand

Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [7]
Stand back thar, ye critters," he shouted, brandishing his rifle in their faces. [9]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. [7]
Stand back there, where you can't be seen--quick," added Dicky hurriedly. [11]
Stand aside, make way, please make way! [2]
Stand not upon the order of your going, gentlemen, but fall in at once. [8]
Stand out of the doorway. [11]
Stand close in the cage. [11]
Stand with anybody that stands right. [7]

Sentences ending with stand

If I were you, I'd let the matter stand. [11]
Brother Allen, will you take the stand? [5]
At first he would draw with his stick a square upon the ground to show them where it used to stand. [12]
Iras was seized with giddiness, and could scarcely stand. [10]
One or two whiffs was all he could stand. [5]
I tell you what, you'd better go down to your brokers and see just how matters stand. [4]
Meanwhile he had watched every movement of the bay, and at the right instant his strong hand had grasped its nostrils and forced it to stand. [10]
You see, he was billed for the king's-evil--to touch for it, I mean--and it wouldn't be right to disappoint the house and it wouldn't make a delay worth considering, anyway, it was only a one-night stand. [5]
She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand. [2]
Next, they called up Lem Beebe, and he took the stand. [5]

Short sentences using stand

He knows where to stand. [2]
She couldn't stand this business. [11]
How does the thing stand? [5]
Mrs. Hawkins took the stand. [5]
Henry Brierly took the stand. [5]
I can't stand that. [5]
He couldn't stand that. [4]
I can stand that. [13]
I couldn't stand that. [11]
I can stand that kind. [11]

Sentences containing stand two or more times

We are here to stand firmly for a principle--to stand firmly for a right. [7]
Don't you try to come that game, my chicken--'cuz I can stand a good deal, but I won't stand that. [5]
Without boasting, I think I may say I am not afraid to stand before a modern French duelist, but as long as I keep in my right mind I will never consent to stand behind one again. [5]
There is one thing which I can't stand and won't stand, from many people. [5]
If counsel for the defense chose to let the statement stand so, he would not call him to the witness stand. [5]
I'll stand by that--I'll stand by that. [11]
You've got to stand by those that stand by you. [11]
He took his stand by Charley, raised his great hand, smote him in the small of his back, and said: "By the Lord, you have sand, and I'll stand by you! [11]
A great Indian river, at low water, suggests the familiar anatomical picture of a skinned human body, the intricate mesh of interwoven muscles and tendons to stand for water-channels, and the archipelagoes of fat and flesh inclosed by them to stand for the sandbars. [5]
But the grumblers only replied, "We can't stand the taxes--we can't stand them. [5]

More example sentences with the word stand in them

I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
Go home to your Nance and your kids, and stand by till you hear from me. [5]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
When we were younger we could stand it; we could give way to it and take the consequences. [8]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
I believed in you when he said it, as I believe in you now when you stand there like that. [11]
There, I wanted you to see where I stand with Di; and now I want you to promise me that you'll not leave these rooms till I see you again. [11]
But why do you stand and look like that? [10]
No sir: Don't you put that scarecrow (portrait) from the Galaxy in, I won't stand that nightmare. [5]
As long as you choose to stand and look, you will see the files of sinners descending and ascending--descending soiled with sin, ascending purged from it. [5]
And then, when you brought me to him that morning and he got up and treated me like a lady, I just couldn't stand it. [9]
As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must not draw the inference that I have any intention of deserting any platform with which I have a legitimate connection because I do not stand on yours. [7]
I went a year to the high school, and then I was all for coming to the city--I couldn't stand Madison, there wasn't anything going on. [9]
And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. [11]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest; even the drammaker and dram-seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in the universal song of gladness. [7]
If David, however, would stand to the shovel hat, and if Hope would be faithful for ever to the poke bonnet and grey cloth, all might yet be well. [11]
He knew she would stand by him whatever happened. [4]
Mr. Trollop, you would not sell your vote on that subsidy bill--which was perfectly right--but you accepted of some of the stock, with the understanding that it was to stand in your brother-in-law's name. [5]
Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Satan said we would have a storm now, and an earthquake, if we liked, but we must stand off a piece, out of danger. [5]
I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn! [5]
Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
Of course there won't be much to do, except to stand by, but you will get a better idea of what goes on down there. [9]
I am not without my friends, and we all stand by each other in our love of home--of sacred home, monsieur. [11]
Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
He felt intoxicated with lofty, pure emotions, but suddenly checked his steps before the sutler's stand and pointed to the pastry gradually disappearing in a chest. [10]
She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. [10]
In Rome, people with fine sympathetic natures stand up and weep in front of the celebrated 'Beatrice Cenci the Day before her Execution. [5]
I stand here with clean hands, impelled solely by the impulse of my heart, to plead for the Queen. [10]
He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
He could have wished secrecy for Delia Gasgoyne, and for his grandfather and grandmother,--he was not wilfully brutal,--but otherwise he had no shame at all; he would stand openly for his right. [11]
Who does not wish to stand on the step next above his own? [10]
Two of these winding tunnels stand as proof of Nature's mining abilities. [5]
He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
Do what I will, they won't answer my German with anything but English; if that goes on, they'll stand stock-still. [5]
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
This tarnished gold will never brighten, these battered covers will stand no more wear and tear; close them, and leave them to the spider and the book-worm. [6]
But they were wild Mexican fellows, and a man had to stand at the head of each of them and hold him fast while the driver gloved and got himself ready. [5]
I get a wider view when I stand off--at home. [4]
I serve him whose master I believe I ought to be by birth; I hate Rameses, who, sincerely or no, calls me his brother; and while I stand as if I were the bulwark of his authority I am diligently undermining it. [10]
As one to whom it is vouchsafed to stand and gaze at some great prodigy, so Pentaur had stood opposite the royal maiden, uneasy and yet fascinated, agitated, yet with secretly uplifted soul. [10]
Whatever happens and whoever may stand at the head of affairs, the theory can always say that such and such a person took the lead because the collective will was transferred to him. [2]
Not even those who stand nearest to me would understand me in the noise of battle. [10]
The infamous scoundrel, who possessed so much influence over the Emperor, had first sent old Blomberg away; now he, Wolf, was to follow, that no one might stand between the game and the pursuer. [10]
The solitary lamp, which was fixed on a high stand near his chair, shed a scanty light, which, however, sufficed to show him his trusted friend Pentaur, who had disturbed Nebsecht in his prohibited occupations. [10]
In the garden, which is a room of the house, the tall callas, rooted in the ground, stand about the fountain; the sun, streaming through the glass, illumines the many-hued flowers. [4]
In many monkeys, which do not stand high in the order, as baboons and some species of macacus (32. [1]
You always know where you stand with Beatty. [9]
They stand just where they have always stood; there has been no change. [5]
They told her where the barn was and how she should stand and listen, and they handed her a fur cloak. [2]
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
They proved it when, to stand by their convictions, they put themselves and their families at the mercy of a problematical future; and when, in advanced years, they undertook the gigantic work of compiling so large and profound a German dictionary. [10]
My voice went when I got a bad cold again, and I couldn't stand the draughts of the theatre, and so I couldn't dance, either. [11]
I've nothing but what I stand in. [11]
Of course they were pretty well tired by this time, and very glad to sit down,--having the prospect before them of being obliged to stand for hours. [6]
Among those who were not afraid to stand and fight, and who would not be captured, was our Giuseppe. [4]
After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
You might as well try to stand in with a combination of gang-saws, or to make friends with the Department of the Interior. [4]
When they got well started, I couldn't see, myself, how even the corpse could stand it. [5]
Get your force well in hand and stand on the defensive, guarding against a movement of the enemy either back toward Strasburg or toward Franklin, and await further orders, which will soon be sent you. [7]
She knew English well enough to under stand them. [11]
At such times we would sit, or more frequently stand, discussing the affairs of the town and of the nation, for politics was an easy and attractive subject to us both. [9]
We know how we stand towards each other and can count on each other with glad and perfect confidence, thanking the Almighty for having opened out a new life to us. [10]
And now here we stand hungry. [2]
I conceive that we stand at the head of the profession. [5]
When we arrived we had to stand around in the garden a little while and wait, and the outlook was not good, for he had been turning away Maharajas that day and receiving only the riff-raff, and we belonged in between, somewhere. [5]
When we arrived we found them crowded with stock, all of which was thin and hardly able to stand up. [5]
For instance, as we approached the Dardanelles, we coasted along the Plains of Troy and past the mouth of the Scamander; we saw where Troy had stood (in the distance,) and where it does not stand now--a city that perished when the world was young. [5]
That is the way it was, so he said, except in the last sad times, when your father, for the sake of Don Carlos and his rights, near lost his life--ah, I can understand that: to stand by the thing you have sworn to! [11]
It was my watch till midnight, and then it was Jim's; but Tom stayed up, because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land, and didn't stand no regular watch. [5]
So then they washed their faces in the river; and just then there was a loud order to stand by for a crossing, and some of them went forward to man the sweeps there, and the rest went aft to handle the after-sweeps. [5]
Philip's first motion was to stand up and say: "I dare not think your Highness means in very truth to make me your kinsman in the succession. [11]
You see, it was the kids crying with cold and starvation, and she got so she just couldn't stand it. [9]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
You see, he was only just a man after all, and couldn't stand ridicule any better than other people. [5]
So strong, indeed, was his pleading, so well did his stout courage stand by him, that had Count Frontenac balanced in his favour he might have been quit of the charge of spying. [11]
The third, I was doing tin roofs; the forth, common signs; the fifth, statuary to stand before cigar shops. [5]
A wicket gate was close at hand, but there was more than one path across the churchyard to which it led, and, uncertain which to take, they came to a stand again. [12]
Above all, there was a sculptor's revolving stand, supporting a bust which Beaton was modelling, with an eye fixed as simultaneously as possible on the clay and on the head of the old man who sat on the platform beside it. [8]
By Charles Dudley Warner Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Wednesday, June 26, 1872 Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. [4]
Well, what I want to know is this--are we to give in to the government, or do we stand to be hammered by Sir Erasmus Gower? [11]
Four times he walked me up the road to a point whence we could see a long distance; and there he would stand, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking. [5]
Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
For Dorothy had vowed it was her pleasure to see John Paul off, and who could stand in her way? [9]
I found it very windy and uncomfortable on the more exposed parts of the grand stand, and was glad that I had taken a shawl with me, in which I wrapped myself as if I had been on shipboard. [6]
Jinny, it's all very well to be brave, and to stand by your colors. [9]
She was still very weary, and her head ached, but she could stand and walk. [10]
It was a very pleasant occasion when the Doctor brought Avis over to sit with us at the table where she used to stand and wait upon us. [6]
She could confidently venture to invite him to the meeting which she had in view; her aunt, the abbess, had promised to stand by her side, if she needed her, in her intercourse with the knight. [10]
His feelings found vent even as he came to the foot of the platform where he was to make his last stand, and the guards formed a square about the great pillars, glooming like Druidic altars. [11]
Dontchuknow, Archy could 've learnt something if he'd had the nous to stand by and take notice of how that man works the system. [5]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
That unanimity and variety of censure in the morning papers, combined with the attractiveness of the thing itself, has cleared every stand in the city, and now if the favor of the country press doesn't turn the tide against us, our fortune's made. [8]
He'll stand by us, and by England. [11]
Give those of us who stand for order and decency as much trouble as you can. [9]

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