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Having told the butler that he need not sit up any longer, she threw off her long cloak, leaned back in an easy-chair right in front of the grate, crossed her feet on the fender, and clasped her miniature waist.

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Sit here, Esora, and I'll tell thee what I've heard to-day.

"Oliver, I must speak to you. If you won't unlock your door, I'll sit down on the steps and wait until you come out." "I'm packing my books. I wish you'd go away, Susan."

Often she would sit idle at the hand-mill, a light in her eyes that I would have given kingdoms for. One ever memorable morning, early in the crisp autumn, a grizzled man strode up the trail, and Polly Ann dropped the ear of corn she was husking and stood still, her bosom heaving. It was Mr. McChesney, Tom's father alone. "No, Polly Ann," he cried, "there ain't nuthin' happened.

But I have known brides to sit it out, for lack of a partner. The bridegroom chooseth as he listeth; when American women are present, the fathers of the bride and groom usually request the honor of leading them out. After this first dance supper is served. If an important native official be present, it is a point of etiquette that he take the bride.

Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.

Then after a time he found it dull to sit so many hours by himself, thinking of nothing but how to pay the rent that was owing, and as the tavern across the road looked bright and cheerful, he walked in one day and sat down with his friends. 'It was just to chase away Care, he said; but when he came out, hours and hours after, Care came out with him.

"I think the book would hardly be complete without you." "Very well. You hear, Pyecraft, Miss Madden says I am to be photographed." "Very good, sir." He wheeled sportively. "Now how am I to sit?" "If you would set yourself so, sir. With your papers before you, spread careless, so. And your pen in your hand, so.... A little nearer, Bateman.

Once across it and on the moor, Neale made the girl sit down on a ledge of rock at some distance from the lead mine, but within sight of it: he himself, while he talked to her, stood watching the figures grouped about the shaft. Creasy had evidently succeeded in getting help at once: Neale saw men fixing a windlass over the mouth of the old mine; saw a man at last disappear into its depths.