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• Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
• 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.
• Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
• Do not leave your car standing in the road.
• The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.
• He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
• Paris stands on the Seine.
• Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
• He stands to get a good price for the house.
• I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
• I can’t stand him.
• “[…] 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..”
• readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
• The king granted the Jews[...]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
• the standing pattern of their imitation
• sacrifices[...]which stood only in meats and drinks
• Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
• Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
• The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
• Love stood the siege.
• Bid him disband his legions,[...]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
• He stood the furious foe.
• He is standing for election to the local council.
• He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
• What I said yesterday still stands.
• "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
• 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."
• "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.
• to stand a treat
• Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
• Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
• 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.
• My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.
• The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
• I took my stand upon an eminence[...]to look into their several ladings.
• They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
• They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
• They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
• He set the music upon the stand and began to play.
• an umbrella stand;
• a hat-stand
• 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.
• She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
• This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
• 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.
• Antonia's patience now was at a stand— / "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," / She whispered[...]
• a taxi stand
• I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
• a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
• 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.
• 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 police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
• Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
• to be at a stand what to do
• Stop sitting and stand up.
• Stand over there while I clean the floor.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand. -- Abraham Lincoln (avant la Guerre Civile Américaine)
• I can’t stand all the smoke in the room.
• You have to take a stand one way or the other.
• Buy me a drink from the hot dog stand.
• A stand is a resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
• A stand is the platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
• The stand against automation was doomed to failure.
• 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.
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• taxi ~
• stand delineation metsän kuviointi
• Here I stand.
• Stand up.
• I can't stand her.
• He is standing for election to the local council