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Sentences ending with stood

Followed through one winding alley and then another,--and climbing, always climbing--till at last we gained the breezy height where the huge castle stood. [5]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
Joan rose, and we all stood. [5]
I wormed my way to where Clark stood. [9]
The sick man was borne round the eastern side of the huge building, which covered a space on which a whole village might have stood. [10]
He was my very humble servant at once, and declared he had called only to let me know where I stood. [9]
Near to this vast dark cavity was a hut--a mere playhouse, it seemed, so small was it, viewed from where we stood. [11]
It was half-way towards noon when the hoof-beats drummed over the Brown Hermit's cave, and they rested not there; but it was noon and no more when they rode through Pango Dooni's gates and into the square where he stood. [11]
She moved straight to the council-table, and stood. [5]
I was sorry to be obliged to give the order, but we needed the ground where they stood. [10]

Short sentences using stood

I stood it years. [5]
They stood transfixed with admiration. [5]
David stood still, waiting. [11]
They both stood up. [11]
Then he stood up. [11]
Septimius also stood up. [10]
Paula stood still, thinking. [10]
Ulrich stood before the easel. [10]
It stood behind the door. [2]
And still she stood. [9]

Sentences containing stood two or more times

There isn't one woman out of ten thousand that would have stood the test as your wife has stood it; injured at the start, constant neglect, temptation--" he paused. [11]
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]
D-didn't ask me what he could do for me, what I wanted, or anything else, but just stood there, and I stood there. [9]
For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her. [10]
They stood close together in a great circle all around the rim of a massive low tower--waiting; stood as motionless as sculptured ornaments, and indeed almost deceived one into the belief that that was what they were. [5]
Not in vain: the king paused, and reflected for a few moments; then he looked at Rameri, who stood abashed, and as if rooted to the spot where he stood. [10]
Well, I stood that as long as--well, you know I was born courteous, and I stood it to the limit. [5]
At the top stood 'tough, underdone, overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;' half-way down the bill stood 'young cat; old cat; scrambled cat;' at the bottom stood 'sailor-boots, softened with tallow--served raw. [5]
How long she stood thus, and he stood, may not be said, but at length he put down his foot and took the saw from his knee, his eyes fell upon her, and his lips spoke her name. [9]
The redoubtable chief stood in menacing attitude, with his eighteen-foot spear poised; his warriors stood massed at his back, armed for battle, their faces eloquent with their long-cherished loathing for white men. [5]

More example sentences with the word stood in them

Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
I always liked you, Joe, and stood up for you, too. [5]
Just to show you, Frederick, that I have always stood your friend. [12]
How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
The corn, not yet tasseled, stood in green flexible ranks, moved by the early breeze. [4]
They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
So there stood yesterday's untouched supper waiting for her breakfast. [6]
The very next year he stood in the place of his father who fell at Ascalon, deeply lamented. [10]
In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
The entwined letters, Y. F., of the design were not, he thought, of a meaningless, frivolous daintiness, but stood for something. [9]
In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
That was very wrong, and when he stretched himself out to sleep, the image of the valiant smith stood with tangible distinctness before his soul. [10]
The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
Becuz the dog would a seen him a coming and stood from under. [5]
Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
If I'd been worth the standing by, I'd have been the better stood by. [11]
We had horrible work with the statue which stood in the room whose windows faced the square. [10]
These are the words the Irishman sang: "She was a queen, she stood up there before me, My blood went roarin' when she touched my hand; She kissed me on the lips, and then she swore me To die for her--and happy was the land. [11]
After Fleda's scornful words of release and dismissal, Jethro stood for a moment confounded and dismayed. [11]
Hume spoke no word to them, but looked at them and stood up. [11]
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]
In the room without, the envoy from Quebec had stood flicking the dust from his leggings with a scarf. [11]
He stood just within the hollow of a cavern so immense that he had no conception of its real dimensions. [13]
I had stood within the fort watching him. [11]
Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy. [2]
Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
The old man with the spectacles was presently overtaken by a stout, elderly woman, who landed in the exhausted condition of a porpoise that has come ashore, and stood regardless of everything but her own weight, while member after member of the party straggled up. [4]
There stood Caracalla, with the Egyptian at his side, pointing down at the arena with his finger. [10]
The executioner stood with the charred match in his fingers, watching his work. [5]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
Anatole stood erect with staring eyes. [2]
He stood charged with robbery; the note had been found upon him, though he was innocent in thought and deed; and they were carrying him back, a prisoner. [12]
The schoolhouse stood with pines about Upon the hill, and ever A creek, where hid the speckled trout, Ran past it to the river. [11]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
The old church, with its severity, had actually stood for something. [9]
The kemengeh-player stood with his instrument ready, and he lifted it in a kind of appeal. [11]
Beside my couch, with his hands on his hips and his feet thrust out, stood Gabord, looking down at me in a quizzical and unsatisfied way. [11]
Then he stood with his face towards the pistol. [11]
Helene has been with her," she said, turning to where the Vicomtesse stood watching her intently. [9]
But she stood with her lips parted and her hands dropped, staring at my companion. [9]
Euphrasia stood upright with her hand on the knob, and her eyes flashed over the group and rested fixedly on the daughter of Mr. Flint. [9]
All now stood with hands uplifted and eyes fixed in anxious expectancy on the curtain. [10]
As Iberville stood with Frontenac near the palace of the Intendant, watching, he saw the enemy suddenly hurry forward. [11]
He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
They were armed with bows and lances, and a charioteer stood beside each, so that their undivided attention could be bestowed upon the battle. [10]
She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
Cousin Maud hastened with all zeal to do honor to friends and guests so dear; but as she reached the door she stood still as in doubt, and signed to me so that I perceived that somewhat had gone wrong. [10]
Miss Crane, tall, with all the severity of side curls and bombazine, stood like a stone lioness at the gate. [9]
His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. [5]
The tall youth, with a stony look on his face, and rigid and uplifted arm, stood beside Vereshchagin. [2]
Carnac stood waiting with a smile on his face, for it seemed good acting. [11]
Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
They had come with a message, whose importance would permit no delay, to the Regent Mardion, who stood between Zeno and Iras, gazing gloomily at the ground with a frowning brow. [10]
He spelt Command with a large C, and when he inspected, his jacks stood to attention like man-o'-war's men. [9]
The Widow smiled with a feeling of triumph at having overcome her difficulties and arranged her party,--arose and stood before her glass, three-quarters front, one-quarter profile, so as to show the whites of the eyes and the down of the upper lip. [6]
I stood toying with a book-mark, reflecting. [9]
The group stood wistful, fearful that their boldness had displeased, expectant of reprimand. [9]
So in I wint, the Injin not comin', and there in the middle of the tint stood the Tall Master, alone. [11]
His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the "true prince," this --scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty--he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. [5]
He looked concentrated will and power as he stood with his hands clasped behind him, his shoulders thrown back, his eyes alight with fire and determination. [11]
There was a wicked look in his face, from which the landlord shrank back- shrank so far that he carried himself among the others, and stood there, half frightened, half dumfounded. [11]
The old man, whose name was Ripley, wore a nut-brown hunting shirt trimmed with red cotton; and he had no sooner slipped the packs from his horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. [9]
The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake. [9]
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]
And Boemund Altrosen, who stood opposite to her, leaning against one of the pillars which supported the arched ceiling of the room, how came he here? [10]
Sir Heinz Schorlin, who stood high in the Emperor's favour, would then be asked to apply to the sovereign to annul it, or at any rate to impose a lighter punishment. [10]
He ordered Morris, who stood behind his chair, to have the ground searched and to bring in any straggler. [11]
It was Starling who lifted her off--George Pembroke stood by Honora. [9]
The privileged few who followed the coffin into the mausoleum remained sometime, but the King soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. [5]
They now stood whispering and making love in the shadow of the temple. [10]
And for a while, as she stood lost in contemplation, he did not speak. [9]
Thus she stood while we glided by. [5]
The first word which the Queen distinguished was her own name; so, motioning to her companion, she stood still. [10]
The ground on which the city stood was too high for the water ever to reach it. [10]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
The lion, too, which lay unchained by his master's seat, gave her a fright now and then; for if Caesar raised his voice in anger, he growled and stood up. [10]
The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
It was one which I had rented from Howard Ogilvy, and it stood on the corner of Baker and Clinton streets, near that fashionable neighbourhood called "the Heights. [9]
It was one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. [5]
The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
The caravansary into which Haschim and his following now turned off stood on a plot of rising ground surrounded by palm-trees. [10]
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing of the dahabieh, her eyes fixed in reverie on the farthest horizon line of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand. [11]
In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon Grabern. [2]
From the landing where Pierre stood there was a second staircase leading to the back entrance. [2]
He had camped where it stood now, when nothing was there save the wild duck in the reeds, the antelopes upon the hills, and all manner of furred and feathered things; and it all was his. [11]
On that side where I stood ancient oaks thrust their gnarled roots into the water, and these knees were bridged by treacherous platforms of moss. [9]
My seat was where I might see them, and an empty chair stood between me and my aunt; this was left for Master Ulsenius, the leech. [10]
Without moving from where he stood he began speaking in a louder tone and more hurriedly than before. [2]
He returned to where he had stood before--advanced a pace--another--another still. [12]
The next morning, when the train for the East pulled out of Illinoistown, Miss Jinny Carvel stood on the plat form tearfully waving good-by to a knot of friends. [9]
I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
But at last, when over half a mile of rope had slidden away, it stopped gliding and stood absolutely still--one minute--two minutes--three--while we held our breath and watched. [5]

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