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Sentences starting with sitting

Sitting very straight, Valmond rode steadily down towards the old soldier. [11]
Sitting back, I thought hard for a moment. [11]
Sitting here among those who were devoted to him, he looked with kind and fatherly pride at his blooming sons. [10]
Sitting here in this winter desolation Jaspar Hume once more beheld these scenes of twenty years before and followed himself, a poor dispensing clerk in a doctor's office, working for that dream of achievement in which his mother believed; for which she hoped. [11]
Sitting down by the table, he spread the letter out, and read it with great deliberation. [11]
Sitting alone in the summer-house over the river. [9]
Sitting down on the bench beneath the appletree, she recalled every word that Philip had said to her two days before. [11]
Sitting beside the still unconscious Ian Stafford on the veld, Al'mah's reflections were much the same as those of Barry Whalen. [11]
Sitting on his porch had not improved Mr. Hunt's figure. [9]
Sitting so for perhaps an hour or more, and smoking all the time, he would rise, and with a grunt, which was answered by a kindly nod, would pass out as silently as he came. [11]

Sentences ending with sitting

After bidding the widow good-night and escorting her to her chariot, he returned to the hall where the Court was still sitting. [10]
While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time alone with Helene in the little drawing room where they were sitting. [2]
See Appendix C] were sitting. [5]
Thus in time the tail becomes quite askew, and is a tolerable guide to the length of time the bird has been sitting. [1]
He rushes up the steps and through the hall, and into the library, where the first citizen and his seneschal are sitting. [9]
Dolokhov put away the money, called a footman whom he ordered to bring something for them to eat and drink before the journey, and went into the room where Khvostikov and Makarin were sitting. [2]
Ann reached him the glass, and at a sign from him she tasted of it; then he drank it with much comfort while Dame Giovanna held him sitting. [10]
She knew what she had to say; and she was about to loosen a portion of her veil from her face that she might look Paula steadfastly in the eyes, when Orion came back to fetch her into the hall where the Court was sitting. [10]
As has been seen, it had become lively once more on the night of the Long Sitting. [5]
They had just reached it when there was a cry from the walls, on which two Indians were sitting. [11]

Short sentences using sitting

Jen was sitting beside him. [11]
The sitting closed. [5]

Sentences containing sitting two or more times

But I know the rock from which it is best seen, and could fancy Margaret sitting there, with her face turned towards it and her hands folded in her lap, and Henderson sitting, half turned away from it, looking in her face. [4]
Princess Mary was sitting helpless and bewildered in the large sitting room, when Rostov was shown in. [2]
But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. [2]
We were sitting on the porch of the farmhouse, on the summit of the hill, and "Aunt Rachel" was sitting respectfully below our level, on the steps-for she was our Servant, and colored. [5]
The night was far gone, as she knew by the declining of the constellations which she bad seen shining brightly almost overhead in the early evening, when she awoke, and found herself still sitting in the very attitude in which she was sitting hours before. [6]

More example sentences with the word sitting in them

She beheld herself, young, fresh-cheeked, with life beating high and all the impulses of youth panting to use, sitting at the head of the seigneury table. [11]
It was a young woman--a young woman where properly no young woman belonged; for she was in Judge Driscoll's house, and in the bedroom over the judge's private study or sitting room. [5]
Should any of you doubt this, you have but to read the "Address to the King" of our Congress, then sitting in Philadelphia. [9]
Then the President wrote upon a paper before him, and it was passed to each member of the Court sitting with him. [11]
Meanwhile Bartja had written Sappho a farewell letter, and was sitting over the wine with his fellow-prisoners and their elder friend Araspes. [10]
After supper a woman got in, who lived about fifty miles further on, and we three had to take turns at sitting outside with the driver and conductor. [5]
The wagons are without seats, and the canvas is too low to admit of sitting upright, if there were. [4]
I may say with truth that I should be a useful member of that, as I am accustomed to sitting on financial boards. [9]
Everybody began talking with the person sitting next at hand. [6]
She was sitting with Phanes in a shady arbor near the cooling spray of a fountain. [10]
Several bandaged soldiers, with pale swollen faces, were sitting or walking about in the sunshine in the yard. [2]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
I was sitting with my legs hanging out of the pilot-house window. [5]
After my talk with McCann I was sitting on the forecastle propped against the bitts of the Maria's anchor-chain, and looking at the swirling foam cast up by the tug's propeller. [9]
He was sitting, with his legs crossed, looking up at her intently. [9]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
When Eva entered with glowing cheeks she found the Swabians still sitting beside his couch. [10]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
The good Jain wipes off a seat before using it, lest he cause the death of-some valueless insect by sitting down on it. [5]
She closed the window again, and sitting down upon the bed, thought of the life that was before them. [12]
The young fellow whom they call John was in the yard, sitting on a barrel and smoking a cheroot, the fumes of which came in, not ungrateful, through the open window. [6]
Compadre the brave, who stumbles along and never falls, I am sitting on your doorstep, and I am writing on your wall--if I had as much money as you I'd go to every bull-fight. [11]
And a woman who has not this subtle feeling always lacks charm, however intellectual she may be; I always think of her as sitting in the glare of disenchanting sunlight as indifferent to the exposure as a man would be. [4]
The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom. [2]
Here the General, who had been sitting by watching them with a very curious expression, spoke up. [9]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
After sitting a while, she suddenly hears someone coming... a sleigh drives up with harness bells; she hears him coming! [2]
The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. [2]
The room in which he was sitting was spacious and cool; the lower part of the walls was lined with earthenware tiles, the upper half plastered and painted. [10]
She remained sitting where she was in a fearful fascination, awaiting Humphrey Crewe's answer. [9]
On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
The other morning when she came out to our house I found her sitting at the piano. [9]
The Asiatic princes were to dine as guests with the king; but they sat at a separate table, as the Egyptians would have been defiled by sitting at the same table with strangers. [10]
The same people were still sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one another. [2]
Two sergeants major were sitting with them and their campfire blazed brighter than others. [2]
Mulholland and I were sitting in the veranda. [11]
One evening we were sitting in the accustomed spot--that is, the coping. [11]
One morning we were sitting at breakfast when we heard a cock-crow, then another and another. [11]
When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
The members who were assembling for dinner were sitting about in groups; they greeted Pierre and spoke of the town news. [2]
One day they were all in my house here, sitting just where you sit in those chairs. [11]
The day I went out, the Champs Elysees, on both sides, its whole length, was crowded with people, rows and ranks of them sitting in chairs and on benches. [4]
I don't suppose we can expect another Mr. Ditmar...." "Well," said Hannah, presently, "there's no use sitting up all night. [9]
She led the way back to the room where they were sitting, and went up to triumph over Fulkerson with Beaton's decision about the table-cover. [8]
I thought it was, when I saw him sitting in the front row, and I think he must have been very lonesome there at one time. [9]
The Masdakite, who was still sitting with Mandane under the sycamore, as indifferent to the torrid heat as she was, looked after him, and said with a sigh as he pointed to him: "There he goes. [10]
Mr. Mason, who was sitting with us, rose to calm her. [9]
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
The old lady was sitting wearily in an arm-chair; she could still walk, but amid her anxiety and distress a strange twitching had affected her hands. [10]
What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
One day he was sitting on the hot side of a pine near his mountain hut, soaking in the sun. [11]
Though Ruth Devlin was sitting not far from her, she scarcely looked that way. [11]
That evening Rufinus was sitting in the garden with his wife and daughter and their friend Philippus. [10]
Alonzo Fitz Clarence was sitting in his snug and elegant little parlor, in a lovely blue silk dressing-gown, with cuffs and facings of crimson satin, elaborately quilted. [5]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up--head and all--with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew. [2]
One day, I was sitting by the pool--it was in the evening. [11]
The little princess was sitting at a small table, chattering with Masha, her maid. [2]
The old Doctor was sitting alone in his study when the Reverend Mr. Fairweather was ushered in. [6]
An old man was sitting alone in his lodge, by the side of a frozen stream. [5]
Before the meal was over he had inspired me with loyalty and pride, enlisted the admiration of Jerry and Conybear and Johnnie Laurens; we followed him into the smoking-room, sitting down in a row on a leather lounge behind our elders. [9]
The wounded man was much better that day and Natasha was sitting with him. [2]
At last she was conducted into a room where Asclepiodorus was sitting with the whole chapter of the priesthood of the temple of Serapis. [10]
At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
The old man was already sitting barefoot. [2]
Only Ben Jamin was absent; he was sitting with his companions in his father's dining-room, and rewarding them for the assistance they had given him with right good wine. [10]
In a pond was a wooden swan sitting on a stick, the water having receded, and left it high and dry. [4]
But if he wait until de men of de privator coum to him, he will wait till we see him sitting there now. [11]
The looks the visitors cast on him seemed to say: "And what is he sitting here for? [2]
One afternoon when Virginia was sitting in the summer house alone, her thoughts wandering back, as they sometimes did, to another afternoon she had spent there,--it seemed so long ago,--when she saw Mammy Easter coming toward her. [9]
Only at the very close of the sitting did he appear to rouse himself. [11]
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]
She was sitting utterly still, her hands folded in her lap. [11]
We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent. [2]
He was sitting upright in his chair. [9]
She was sitting upright in a chair, looking straight before her. [11]
Porphyrius was sitting up, supported in the physician's arms; his eyes were open, and as they entered he greeted them with a faint smile. [10]
I like sitting up, and I've often had a sleep, bless you, in one of them chairs. [12]
He drew himself up to a sitting posture, but his head struck a curved stone ceiling. [11]
When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself. [5]
Ephraim was sitting up in his bed, watching for him, and exclaimed: "I have been waiting a long, long time to see you. [10]
Elsie was sitting up in her bed when it came, languid, but tranquil, and Helen was by her, as usual, holding her hand, which was strangely cold, Helen thought, for one who was said to have some kind of fever. [6]
She was sitting up in bed--she had not lain down for months--and Katie and the nurse were supporting her. [5]
He's been sitting up and talking to us--of course he's pale and weak and wasted, but in spite of that, Asher, he seems to have a strength, a force that he didn't have before he went away. [9]
It was not until I saw you sitting there beside Duncan that the idea occurred to me. [9]
One stumbled over unseen passengers on the lounges, or sitting on kits on the floor. [9]
Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
He was sitting under a willow at the billabong, reading over and over to himself the address to be delivered before the Governor in the evening. [11]
But Grant!--he was under a tremendous and ceaseless bombardment of praise and gratulation, but as true as I'm sitting here he never moved a muscle of his body for a single instant, during 30 minutes! [5]
Anatole, with uniform unbuttoned, walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the room behind, where his French valet and others were packing the last of his things. [2]
Note for an unabridged biography: the great man is discovered sitting quietly by the window, poring over a book on the modern science of road-building, some notes from which he is making for his first message. [9]
Neither of these two adventurers into a wild world of feeling noticed that a man was sitting on a little knoll under a tree, not far away from their meeting-place, busy with pencil and paper. [11]
At length she turned away, and walking thoughtfully through the churchyard, came unexpectedly upon the schoolmaster, who was sitting on a green grave in the sun, reading. [12]
He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up. [2]
Sleep had not touched Orlando's eyes when, sitting down by the stones which were to mark his resting-place, he waited for Louise to wake. [11]
They were sitting together on a bench before a country tavern, in the free converse permitted by our democratic habits. [5]

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