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Sentences starting with sit

Sit down, won't you? [9]
Sit down--I'll move you when you are in the way. [5]
Sit down, if you please--both of you. [5]
Sit just where you are. [11]
Sit down--" The words had fallen on her ears with a cold, deadly smother. [11]
Sit down, please to, and I'll tell you my story. [11]
Sit down in the seats of the State governments and study the methods of treatment of essentially the common institutions of government, of charity and discipline, and you will be impressed with the variety of local spirit and performance in the Union. [4]
Sit down, I tell you! [5]
Sit down and tell me when and where you met these men, and why you have continued the acquaintance. [11]
Sit down and tell me all your plans. [11]

Sentences ending with sit

He knew there was no help for him, and that he was looking his last upon earthly things, but "he would not sit. [5]
The doctor remembered the verse of "The Ancient Mariner:" "I moved my lips; the pilot shrieked And fell down in a fit; The holy hermit raised his eyes And prayed where he did sit. [6]
You ask any stranger to sit. [11]
I've got to stand; I can't do it and talk to a house, and how in the nation am I going to sit? [5]
We of the staff rose and stood, as was meet, until she made us sit. [5]
Where did you sit? [5]
How does that prospect sit? [9]
First, myself, the Professor, a little way from the head of the table, on the right, looking down, where the "Autocrat" used to sit. [6]
And there," he pointed to a sutler's tent, "they crowd in and sit. [2]
He threw his leg half jauntily over the end of the table and said: "No--no, thanks; I'd rather not sit. [11]

Short sentences using sit

Sit down and talk. [2]
She could not sit still. [10]
I want to sit here. [11]
All right then, sit down. [2]
Sit down, I say! [5]
Sit down, Sir,--he said,--sit down! [6]
Sit down there, my son. [10]
Sit down, Michael Ianovich! [2]
There--I will sit here. [10]
Sit down; I'll fetch something. [5]

Sentences containing sit two or more times

Sit down, dear, sit down--goodness knows you're welcome. [5]
Sit down, Rosannah; sit down, Alonzo. [5]
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. [5]
Some sit up, if they can find a dry spot to sit on, and smoke. [4]
Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! [2]
Sit down, sit down--how odd it is--you are the last person I was ever expecting to see again. [5]
Sit down, sit down. [6]
Sit down, sit down, Calhoun, dear lad. [11]
Sit down, sit down, and make yourself at home. [5]
I could sit down here now, if there were any place to sit, and calculate how much living in this house would be worth to me in Wall Street. [9]

More example sentences with the word sit in them

We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
I'll sit by you, you know. [12]
She'll sit with you, my soul, while I write a letter. [12]
By Heaven, with you to sit, it's my chance! [11]
But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you. [12]
Where you sit, you are in Tennessee; I'm in North Carolina. [4]
Many of the wounded asked them not to unload the carts but only to let them sit on the top of the things. [2]
For hours she would sit in reverie beside her sleeping father, her heart "over the water to Charley. [11]
I wish he would change his seat and come round and sit by our Scheherezade! [6]
I hoped it would be finished before this came; but--there, good friend, go; I will sit here quietly. [11]
As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
He work and work and fret and worry for me and Marie, and sometimes he just sit and look at me and say not a word. [11]
With such persuasive words as pity and affection could suggest, they prevailed upon him to sit among them and hear what they should tell him. [12]
Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
The gentlemen were wont to dine at the Coffee House, and I would sit near the foot of the table, taking notes of their plans. [9]
I do not wonder that the tropical people, where Nature never goes to sleep, give it up, and sit in lazy acquiescence. [4]
You sit and wonder and wonder what the gentleman is going to say who is going to introduce you. [5]
Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
Now the young woman of today should not be deceived into the notion of a preferable Realistic development because the novelist of today gets her to sit to him as his model. [4]
No man or woman could look into his face, take his hand, sit by his side, without feeling that he was as dependable as the stars in their courses. [9]
One would sit without moving, undertaking nothing...." "Life as it is leaves one no peace. [2]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
He sit there with us, and play on the fiddle, and sing songs, and act plays, and help Florian in the barn, and Octave to mend the fence, and the Cure to fix the grape- vines on his wall. [11]
He must mingle with this society; he cannot sit at home--it is not business, it butters no commercial parsnips. [5]
He would sit with them at night, pondering with a secret satisfaction, they could see, upon the flight that he and she would take before night came again; and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, 'Lord! [12]
At first, bursting with mystery, she could do no more than sit and look in Guida's face. [11]
I'll sit up with my patient the rest of the night, doctor; I can't trust Nancy, she couldn't make Luigi take the medicine. [5]
We'll sit down with it in a day or two. [9]
To sit indoors with a light and read in a St. Louis midsummer was not to be thought of. [9]
Below is a wine-shop, with a little side booth, in which some German travelers sit drinking their wine, and sputtering away in harsh gutturals. [4]
A later generation will sit in judgment upon the evidence more calmly than our own. [6]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
The first thing will be to see how she and our little deformed gentleman get along together; for, as I have told you, they sit side by side. [6]
So that is why I sit beside Senor and Senorita Dolores at table--the one on the right, the other on the left, myself between, like this, like that. [11]
There were some who slyly congratulated Virginia, whose martyrdom it was to sit up with people all the day long. [9]
And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
I know people who have seem it ten times; they know the most of it by heart; they do not tire of it; and they say they shall still be quite willing to go and sit under its spell whenever they get the opportunity. [5]
What are we, who have had no opportunities, to sit in judgment on her! [4]
Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly. [2]
The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it. [4]
In this atmosphere, which seemed to flow over all these Atlantic isles at this season, one endures a great deal of exertion with little fatigue; or he is content to sit still, and has no feeling of sluggishness. [4]
Silence is unnoticed when people sit before a fire; it would be intolerable if they sat and looked at each other. [4]
There were times when _he_ could sit down in the king's presence, but I couldn't. [5]
I never know what I am going to write when I sit down. [6]
I know not what comical sprites sit astride the cider-barrels ranged along the walls. [4]
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]
Mrs. Willis's dainties were often untouched, and he would frequently sit for hours between slumber and waking, or mumble to himself as I read the prints. [9]
But if they were of stone, I vow the flock could find their own straw to sit on. [9]
One day they were all in my house here, sitting just where you sit in those chairs. [11]
After supper he went, as usual, to sit on the steps of his porch, and to cut his piece of Honey Dew, which never varied a milligram. [9]
Now wheresoever a well-to-do Nuremberg citizen is taking his ease with victuals and drink, if others join him they likewise must sit down and eat with him, yea, if it were in hell itself. [10]
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. [6]
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]
If we do, we shall be likely to sit in some delicious place, listening to the band playing in the "Restauration," and to the nightingales, till the moon comes up. [4]
I know if we could sit down and talk this thing out with you, Mr. Pindar, you'd see it reasonable. [9]
When, with a wave of his hand, he declined to sit down, she said: "Yes--yes--be seated! [10]
I sit and watch, and I feel a pity. [11]
He put his watch on the table, and sit down on a bench by it, and for a little minute he do not speak, but look at me close, and not angry, as you would think. [11]
But mebbe it wasn't a close call!...I'll sit here in this corner where nobody can see me from the grove. [13]
There Mr. Botcher was wont to sit (when he was not depressing one of the tiles in the rotunda), surrounded by his friends and their tobacco smoke, discussing in his frank and manly fashion the public questions of the day. [9]
The old man was uneasy when he had lain down, and begged that Nell would come and sit at his bedside as she had done for so many nights. [12]
As the patient was to sit up in the evening, he appointed to visit her in her room at a certain hour, and rambling out with his book, did not return until the hour arrived. [12]
The magician's scorn was stirred, and he said: "Lo, I have seen many wonderful soothsayers and prophets and magicians in my life days, but none before that could sit idle and see to the heart of things with never an incantation to help. [5]
Soon after, he was standing in the spacious room in which he was accustomed to sit and to sleep when he was in Thebes. [10]
He said he was not worthy to sit in the company of men like these; that he had been silent from admiration; that he had been silent from another cause also--silent from shame--silent from ignorance! [5]
Lady Rosebery, who was kindness itself, would have had us stay and sit down in comfort at the supper-table, after the crowd had thinned, but we were tired with all we had been through, and ordered our carriage. [6]
If ever man was formed to sit on a log, it was Old Phelps. [4]
Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. [2]
John York's journal was a thing to sit up nights to read. [11]
Are not two warm hearths yours to sit at, and the love and care of two faithful house-wives; and are you not the father and counsellor, not alone of your nephews and nieces, but of their parents likewise? [10]
If what is wanted in society is cold hauteur and languid superciliousness or lofty immobility, we are confident that with a little practice she can sit stiller, and look more impassive, and move with less motion, than any other created woman. [4]
Senator Peleg Hartington walked up the aisle, and the judge rose and shook him by the hand, and as Deacon Hartington he was invited to sit on the platform. [9]
I used to walk down there and sit on the stones of the ruined mill; or climb to the crests on the far side of the pond to gaze for hours westward where the green billows of the Alleghenies lost themselves in the haze. [9]
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]
Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses? [9]
Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
She was growing used to celebrity, and could already sit calm and seemingly unconscious, under the fire of fifty lorgnettes in a theatre, or even overhear the low voice "That's she! [5]
She came upon us at the foot of the stairs, with her cordials in her hands, and made us come in and sit down and take the medicine. [5]
When I wake up, he still sit there, but his head lie in his arms. [11]
Then she went up to the table, begged Paaker to sit down with her, broke her cake, and enquired for her aunt Setchern, Paaker's mother. [10]
She would sit up there, with her paws curved under her breast, and sleep in the sun half the afternoon. [5]
Now, then, sit up in that chair, and set your eye on that clock. [5]
I can sit up all day, and take moderate nourishment. [14]
Should she nestle under the great ledge, or sit on a projecting rock with her figure against the sky? [4]
He would sit under the battlements until the crack of doom; or rather--and more appropriate in Mr. Chamberlin's case--walk around them and around, blowing trumpets until they capitulated. [9]
I know your uncle--I know that he will make his borrowed throne as wide as he possibly can; but when we return home he will be quite content to sit on a narrow seat again. [10]
There was something uncanny in this self-control, this sang froid with which he was wont to sit at boards waiting unmoved for the time when he should draw his net about his enemies, and strangle them without pity. [9]
Having seen the two serving-men dispose, in a convenient place, the refreshment which Lempriere's appetite compelled, the fool took command of the occasion and made the two sit upon a bank, while he prepared the repast. [11]
I suppose every turn in it, every tree that has a knoll at the foot where two persons can sit, has witnessed a tragedy, or, what is worse, a comedy. [4]
Jen, clear-faced and true, invited him to sit and eat, and he, starting half-abstractedly, responded to her "Draw nigh, Sergeant Tom," and sat down. [11]
After that Virginia took long drives with her father, and coming home, they would sit in the summer house high above the Merimec, listening to the crickets' chirp, and watching the day fade upon the water. [9]
On this ocean too the great constellations circle in their ships, and there is the kingdom of the blissful gods, who sit enthroned above this heavenly ocean under a canopy of stars. [10]
We sit up together till ten, or past; and after I go, I hear Miss Bronte comedown and walk up and down the room for an hour or so. [14]
It was better to walk than to sit alone in torment, to be gnawed by that Thing from which she had so desperately attempted to escape, and failed. [9]
It was usual to to get the victims to sit down, for that was the handiest position for business. [5]
Tom was conducted to the principal apartment of a noble suite, and made to sit down--a thing which he was loth to do, since there were elderly men and men of high degree about him. [5]
Balbilla had come to the palace, as the reader knows, to sit for her bust. [10]
Herdegen she sent to the other end of the table to sit near his uncle, and Ursula far from him near the middle; to the end that it might be clearly seen that she knew naught of any alliance between that damsel and her nephew. [10]
When we wished to talk with her we had to sit beside her; and if we kept still she would question us searchingly about everything--our play, our friends, our school. [10]

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