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• She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
• The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
• England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
• The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.
• a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
• I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
• a taxi stand
• Antonia's patience now was at a stand— / "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," / She whispered[...]
• One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
• This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
• Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
• There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
• a hat-stand
• an umbrella stand;
• He set the music upon the stand and began to play.
• They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
• They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
• They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
• I took my stand upon an eminence[...]to look into their several ladings.
• A stand is the platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
• He is standing for election to the local council
• I can't stand her.
• Stand up.
• Here I stand.
• stand delineation metsän kuviointi
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• A stand is a contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
• The stand against automation was doomed to failure.
• The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
• A stand is a resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
• Buy me a drink from the hot dog stand.
• You have to take a stand one way or the other.
• I can’t stand all the smoke in the room.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand. -- Abraham Lincoln (avant la Guerre Civile Américaine)
• Stand over there while I clean the floor.
• Stop sitting and stand up.
• to be at a stand what to do
• He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
• the standing pattern of their imitation
• The king granted the Jews[...]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
• readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
• “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery..”
• I can’t stand him.
• I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
• He stands to get a good price for the house.
• Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
• Paris stands on the Seine.
• sacrifices[...]which stood only in meats and drinks
• He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.
• They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
• Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
• The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
• The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
• Do not leave your car standing in the road.
• Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
• Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
• What I said yesterday still stands.
• My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.
• To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta.
• Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
• Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
• to stand a treat
• "Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play."[...]¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
• The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
• "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
• Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
• He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
• He is standing for election to the local council.
• He stood the furious foe.
• Bid him disband his legions,[...]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
• Love stood the siege.
• The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
• Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
• Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.