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• She stands unmoving. (8)
• He stands very still. (8)
• She stands there smiling. (8)
• It stands in the old place. (10)
• Suddenly she stands listening. (8)
• Mr. Anthony stands for tyranny! (8)
• A door, on the left, stands ajar. (8)
• He stands in an attitude of midway. (10)
• He stands leaning against the window. (8)
• That tree stands for Death blooming. (10)
• She stands waiting to hear her sentence. (8)
• There she stands and again looks at him. (8)
• I give it you as it stands here printed. (10)
• She stands rigid, with her head bent back. (8)
• She stands motionless, compressing her lips. (8)
• Then, with hands clasped, she stands waiting. (8)
• He releases her, and he too stands motionless.] (8)
• As my word stands for me, I hold others to theirs. (10)
• He springs up and stands in the middle of the cell. (8)
• He suddenly recoils and stands petrified with doubt.] (8)
• If your pride stands in the way, put it in your pocket. (8)
• Foremost among English organists stands the name of =Wm. (3)
• While he stands looking at it blankly, there is a knock. (8)
• She moves slowly to the table, and stands looking at him. (8)
• She stands gazing out, suddenly turns inward with a shiver. (8)
• Here you are, eldest son of a family that stands for something. (8)
• In the middle of the square stands a high pillar of the Virgin. (9)
• He opens the bedroom door, Left, and stands waiting for her to go. (8)
• His face crisps and quivers; he stands listening till they die away. (8)
• The flame of a camp-fire stands up tall and straight toward the black sky. (7)
• Suddenly she springs to her feet, and stands waiting like an animal at bay. (8)
• He moves inwards along the wall, stands still again and utters a gasping sigh. (8)
• He pours brandy into a liqueur glass from the decanter which stands between them. (8)
• It built a hall, which still stands, and gave both vocal and instrumental concerts. (3)
• She stands looking at him, then quietly slips away by the door under the staircase. (8)
• She stands there with that faint smile on her face, looking at the two young people. (8)
• He stands plainly visible in the lighted porch, locking the door, then steps forward. (8)
• The windows may blaze, or the windows may be extinguished, but the house stands firm. (10)
• She passes him and steals out to the outer door of the flat, where she stands listening. (8)
• On the table, in a common pot, stands a little plant of maidenhair fern, fresh and green. (8)
• Then she is a reed, a weed, what you will; she is unfit to contend when she stands alone. (10)
• In the end this war will be won by the country whose financial position stands the strain best. (8)
• Then her head droops; she too gets up and stands apart, with her wrapper drawn close round her. (8)
• Then slowly he moves to the door, stands a second like a carved figure, his face hard as stone.] (8)
• He opens the door to go out, then stands again irresolute in the darkness and heaves a heavy sigh. (8)
• See how the currents sweep round it, as if to wash it away; yet it stands, seeming not to see them. (8)
• At that intense soft bitterness in her voice, he gets up, feeling stifled, and stands at the window. (8)
• There stands the man who has faith in Italy, though she has been lying like a corpse for centuries. (10)
• He stands before the fire with his head bent, excluding as it were his interviewer and all the world. (8)
• Miss Galbraith stands up, droopingly, and Mr. Richards makes a movement towards her, and then falls back. (9)
• Struggling out of her hay nest she stands staring at his whitened figure, and bursts suddenly into a wail.] (8)
• A fort and military station was built at a spot on the north shore of Lake Ontario where Kingston now stands. (19)
• Of the great composers since Bach, =Mendelssohn= stands conspicuous as an organist and composer of organ music. (3)
• She gazes at her abstracted husband; then swiftly moves to the lintel of the open window, and stands looking out.] (8)
• She stands in her unholy oily leer A statue losing feature, weather-sick Mid draggled creepers of twined ivy sere. (10)
• All is in readiness for the performances, seats and stands and rings and trapezes in place, and every man at his post. (21)
• In him polyphonic composition attained its highest perfection and the organ stands as the centre of the Polyphonic school. (3)
• He struggles out of her arms, gets up, and stands without speaking, staring at her, and wiping the sweat from his forehead. (8)
• She makes as if to withdraw from an unwarranted intrusion, but suddenly turning, stands, with lips pressed together, waiting. (8)
• She presses her hands to her forehead, then walks blindly round to behind the sofa and stands looking straight in front of her. (8)
• Mr. Pericles had made a furious dash at the band in the centre of the lawn, scattered their music, and knocked over the stands. (10)
• Born in Cairo, Egypt, twenty-six years of age, stands eight feet two inches in height and weighs three hundred and twelve pounds. (21)
• Only at night, when the cold moon blanches everything, the castle stands like the grim ghost of its old self, high above the river. (8)
• He rubs his hands gleefully, and then thrusting the points of them into his waistcoat pockets, stands beaming triumphantly upon Lawton. (9)
• The furniture, however, is differently arranged; a small four-poster bedstead stands against the wall, Right Back, jutting into the room. (8)
• Adjoining the much-restored church stands a small decagonal Byzantine baptistery, with circular interior not over twenty feet in diameter. (20)
• Letting down the passage window, he stands there in the doorway with the draught blowing his hair and the smoke of his cigar all about him. (8)
• His style was broad, flowing and especially emotional, and as a writer of the Netherlands school his name stands as one of the very highest. (3)
• The mocker who would jeer at the torments of revolution, stands like a coward quailing before the impassive eye and pale cheek of a croupier. (6)
• By William Dean Howells Near the verge of a bold promontory stands the hotel, and looks southeastward over a sweep of sea unbroken to the horizon. (9)
• With no immediate followers among the composers of his time he stood alone, as he stands today, one of the most commanding figures in musical history. (3)
• He stands looking at her leaning against the plush-covered table, her head down, a dark figure in a dark room, with the moonlight sharpening her outline. (8)
• Prominent among contemporary English organists stands =Edwin H. Lemare= (1865-——), who succeeded Frederic Archer as organist of Carnegie Hall, Pittsburg, in 1902. (3)

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