Sitting Sentence Examples
Sonya was sitting by the table.
There he finds his sister, sitting up in bed, looking frightened.
When she got to the room, Alex was sitting on the love seat reading a newspaper.
I can see her in my rear view mirror, just sitting there, plotting a way they can escape.
Frank led me down a long corridor to a large conference room filled with perhaps thirty intent individuals, standing and sitting, some taking notes, others with few buried faces in computer screens.
Jonathan was sitting on his bed, watching TV in his pajamas.
You might have said something in my defense last night, instead of sitting there like a lump on a log.
It served him right, sitting there like that with barely a word in her defense.
He frowned, rolling away from her and sitting up.
From the porch we could see the huddled figure of Howie Abbott sitting under a large red umbrella on the edge of the pier.
AdvertisementTears come to my eyes these months later as I pen these words, sitting in the comfort of our Surry, New Hampshire home with Betsy by my side.
On the other side of the thick entry door was a sitting room with lush wine colored carpet.
I wouldn't be sitting here without you.
You've been sitting in Hell watching movies?
From Cumana Bolivar repaired to Cartagena, and thence to Tunja, where the revolutionary congress of New Granada was sitting.
AdvertisementWe were sitting or lying on the floor.
Sitting on a secluded site at the far side of the circle, on the outside, sat a mid-sized Pace Arrow motor home with California Plates!
Everything is still just sitting there from the last time we used it.
She floundered to a sitting position, then her feet, cringing as she struggled upright, the sting in her wounded knees bringing tears to her eyes.
They lucked out on the matter of inn sitting.
AdvertisementOn Henderson's return to Edinburgh in July 1641 the Assembly was sitting at St Andrews.
Amongst the more conspicuous secular buildings in the street may be mentioned the Town and County Bank, the Music Hall, with sitting accommodation for 2000 persons, the Trinity Hall of the incorporated trades (originating in various years between 1398 and 1527, and having charitable funds for poor members, widows and orphans), containing some portraits by George Jamesone, a noteworthy set of carved oak chairs, dating from 1574, and the shields of the crafts with quaint inscriptions; the office of the Aberdeen Free Press, one of the most influential papers in the north of Scotland; the Palace Hotel; the office of the Northern Assurance Company, and the National Bank of Scotland.
One pleasant morning in the beautiful springtime, I thought I was sitting on the soft grass under my dear mother's window, looking very earnestly at the rose-bushes which were growing all around me.
One day they were sitting at the table working on coloring books when Alex came home early.
With everything going on, Carmen didn't have time to worry about flying, but when they were all sitting at the airport, she finally had time to stew over it.
AdvertisementShe woke when the bed sank with the weight of a person sitting down.
He was sitting in his chair, everything from the top of his head to his thighs covered with the newspaper he was holding out to read.
She said nothing, but when they entered the kitchen to find Len sitting at the table, his expression was wary.
One day when they were sitting on the porch steps together, Brandon proposed a solution.
She staggered on legs of rubber and he lifted her to the counter, sitting her in front of him.
I was left sitting on my hands until the appointed hour of Howie's nap before Betsy assigned me the chore of remaining in the small room while he slept.
Howie shot up to a sitting position.
Finally, sitting by the statue in Duffy Square, I made the phone call.
Perhaps, Daniel Brennan could get out of the kitchen but the five of us would be left sitting on the stove.
I pictured her sitting at a desk, perhaps someone else listening in.
She was sitting with Betsy and me while Quinn was talking gardening with Howie.
Sensing someone behind me, I turned just enough to see my wife sitting in a chair, her eyes closed.
If she just turned her head, she could see me, sitting comfortably a scant ten feet away in the darkened living room.
It was strange sitting here, talking to a confessed rapist, with the sound of what was probably more of them eating dinner behind me.
Sitting, she gave up on the jammed seatbelt after a few useless tugs.
The young woman motioned to the sitting area, and Bianca went, relieved.
Wood was stacked beside it, and she turned the book sitting on the coffee table into newspaper to burn.
They weren't safe together, especially since the powerful connection between them was driving her body crazy just sitting so close.
He'd managed to push himself into a sitting position when she returned with soup and water.
Now, she felt out of place, like she was sitting in a display at a furniture store.
Deidre helped him lift the hacking girl into a sitting position.
They were sitting around the dining room table, spellbound as Fred gave witness to past purchases and profits.
Paul sat next to me, just like we're sitting now.
You'd think we were still sitting in the same high school bleachers where we'd met a decade earlier.
Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.
He made the entire trip up without seeing another vehicle, and the lords of luck were with him—Jennifer Radisson's camera was sitting in the crevice of a rock as if it were waiting for him.
Her feet skidded out from under her and she spun around, clutching desperately to the limb, twisting into a sitting position and sliding until she was sitting before him.
He sat on a sofa while she settled into a leather rocker where she'd evidently been sitting, as there was a nearly empty pint of vodka on the table next to her.
You'd think you were on trial today instead of sitting in a jury box.
Fred hesitated as he rocked up to a sitting position.
It's true Mr. Dean has been under fire—it's fortunate we're standing here today—not sitting.
Dean considered sitting in on the proceedings when they resumed on Monday, just out of curiosity.
Back in bed, Cynthia remained awake and was sitting up.
Ginger Dawkins was sitting on the porch in her pretty blue sweater as if she'd never huffed and puffed her exit a day earlier.
It was a shock for David Dean to see Fred O'Connor sitting on a wooden stool behind bars at the Ouray County jail.
He's just sitting back somewhere planning how to nail you.
Dean rose to his feet and went over to the officer, gently pushing her down to a sitting position.
It wasn't coming out the way she practiced it, maybe because Gabriel was sitting close enough that she wanted to lean against him instead of the bed and place his large hands on the parts of her body hidden by clothes.
Alex was sitting in his chair, reading a magazine and glanced up when she spoke.
Sitting on the edge of the porch, she took deep breaths of the fresh air.
It was strange sitting beside him and longing for him to come back.
Destiny was sitting no more than five feet away now.
When she entered his room, he was sitting up in bed, a tray of food in front of him.
With Destiny buckled in safely and Jonathan sitting beside her, he climbed behind the wheel and started the car.
Sitting through it, she didn't think it was ever possible to be prepared for the news.
Sarah was sitting in the drawing room waiting when they returned.
The sitting increased from a million in 1851 to about 2,375,000 in 1910.
When he was done killing demons, he'd interrogate the death dealer he had sitting in a cell at the bottom of the fortress.
Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots.
I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame.
When he had parted from Malvintseva Nicholas wished to return to the dancing, but the governor's little wife placed her plump hand on his sleeve and, saying that she wanted to have a talk with him, led him to her sitting room, from which those who were there immediately withdrew so as not to be in her way.
Alex was sitting on the porch swing, nursing a cup of coffee the morning they arrived to work on the house.
Sitting down with a book, she propped her feet up on the table and relaxed, calmed by the sounds of the ocean and the warm sun.
Her eyes went to the chiseled features of the man sitting near her.
Something about him made her feel comfortable, or she wouldn't be sitting alone with a man dressed like the angel of death on the beach after dark, revealing secrets she didn't tell her boyfriend of two years.
It teaches compassion, because sitting on the bus, I know the person beside me is someday going to have to search his soul the same way I did, so I don't mind that he's spilling his coffee on my shoes.
He'd never been guilty in his role as an assassin or as Death, until sitting with her on the beach.
I've been sitting here all day, waiting for you and debating what I'll say when I see her again.
There were six students around five-years-old and an older boy on the verge of puberty sitting around a beautiful blond, who was reading a book out loud.
One of the girls grabbed her hand to pull her to the blankets where they'd been sitting while another one tugged at a loose lock of her hair.
A billion consciences sitting under the serene surface of the water.
One minute, telling me you don't want anything to do with me beyond your duty and the next, sitting on the beach with me for hours because you're worried I'll find a tall building to dive off of, she grumbled.
She thought him sitting with her so long on the beach was an indication.
The kid sitting beside her made smacking sounds as he chewed on a huge wad of
The death dealer took up much of the small space, his trench still on despite sitting at the kitchen table.
She searched for half an hour before spotting her sister sitting in one of the airy rooms off the hallway near the buffet.
There were several women sitting and talking while choosing delicacies from large silver trays.
Despite her fury and fear, she found his presence oddly calming, like sitting in a spa surrounded by incense with her feet in a salt bath.
Lankha asked, sitting back.
The seat was at his left, and he waited until she accepted before sitting.
Sasha was waiting for him in his study, sitting beside a fireplace that burned with black flames.
He'd still rather be humoring Sasha and eating his oranges than sitting in the damned cell!
Gabriel was sitting alone on top of one of the half dozen picnic tables.
She.d emerged from the shadow world into a sitting room.
Katie sat on a barstool at the breakfast bar, watching the maid pour tea into two mugs sitting beside the stove.
She struggled into a sitting position, her neck achy from her spot sleeping on the floor before the fire.
Sasha sat on top of the sarcophagus and looked around, smug in how safe he was sitting on top of the coffin.
Toby was awake and sitting, fascinated by Lankha.s soft hands.
Women were packed even in the luxurious bathrooms with their sitting areas decorated with couches and a gilded fountain.
The youth sitting on Toby.s bed wasn.t Toby.
The object sitting in the middle of the table made his blood run cold.
Since your castle was attacked, we.ve had an Ancient wash up on our shores, Death.s assassin sitting in our hall, and now this.
Jared lay still for a moment before sitting up.
Kris asked, sitting heavily on the ground beside him.
Her make-up was smeared from walking through the Monterey mists, her maid-of-honor dress wrinkled from constant sitting and standing.
The room was vacant except for a metal slab that served as a bed and the six-legged, cat-like creature sitting on the edge of the bed watching its sleeping occupant.
She grabbed the sitting creature.
It was safer for her to imagine someone sitting just behind her wall weaving clothing and sending it to her or anyone else as they requested.
The strange fever remained, making her feel as if she'd been sitting in a sauna for hours.
And he left her sitting on the bed, aware of how much more work his lifemate would create for him.
She ached as much from her workout the day before as falling asleep sitting with her sketchbook.
This floor, bisected by a hall and stairs, contained a living room or parlor on the right, or southern side, and a dining room and kitchen on the left, with the Deans' private quarters, a sitting room-office combination and bedroom, located in the rear.
She just shrugged her shoulders as if she could care less about his lack of vocalization and moseyed over to near where Fred and the boy were sitting, the notebook between them.
Cynthia, who was sitting up in bed, continued to work on the notebook.
He was sitting there, in the dark, when he first heard a step on the stair.
Effie Quincy stepped into the room, startled when she saw Dean, sitting there in his bathrobe.
She joined him, sitting on the sofa and pulling one of Cynthia's quilts across her lap.
Cynthia was still sleeping when a speeding Ford Explorer passed them and Dean caught sight of Donald Ryland, with his son Donnie sitting beside him.
They'd have you sitting down under a hot light, spending a few hours while a gang of suits practiced twenty questions on you.
God, I can't be sitting here considering for even a minute, my wife might be a killer!
She's just sitting in the room, in her white dress.
He tried to turn and raise himself to a sitting position while pushing her away, but she held back his arm in a strong grip and locked a crooked arm about his neck.
He hesitated but remained half sitting on the edge of the bed.
He could picture her sitting there, listening to the ringing telephone, but not wanting to answer it.
During the hurried explanations of her mother's condition, her trip home and hushed comments on the recent happenings, it was moments before Dean noticed Janet O'Brien sitting in the far corner.
She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation.
She was sitting up in bed reading.
He should be controlling this situation by now; not sitting here trying to figure out what the hell was happening.
You said you felt what I felt, and you're sitting here drawing portraits of me.
Virtually every car he owned confirmed he was a 'player'. The Lovebirds had started a fire and were sitting on the divan in front of it.
He was sitting, reveling in the day and enjoying his new art treasure, when he heard Connor's car come up the drive.
Jackson found Sarah sitting in the drawing room sipping coffee.
The other three were sitting with their drinks and his sat on the table in front of Elisabeth.
When Jackson returned home, Sarah and Connor were sitting down for dinner.
Hi... I'm sitting here enjoying the pieces you brought me.
Jackson retrieved the roast, cut two chops from it, and held one out to her while sitting on a stool.
He laughed, "Well, I'm sitting on the sofa petting a beautiful wolf who is sleeping in my lap."
Elisabeth sighed, "Jackson behaved very irresponsibly and he is lucky to be sitting here today."
Jackson and Elisabeth took turns sitting with Sarah; she seemed to be reconciling herself to their new reality.
When Sarah and Connor entered the drawing room, Jackson and Elisabeth were sitting on the sofa reading.
They brought a wing chair from the living room into the studio, and Elisabeth positioned him sitting back with one ankle on the other knee, his hands resting on the arms of the chair.
He quickly regretted sitting there rather than a chair.
He then hurried to Elisabeth who was already sitting up straight.
Sitting cross legged, Elisabeth held Jackson's hand in her lap, gazing at his face.
Sitting back down, he examined it.
Instantly he was awake - not simply sitting there with his eyes open, but completely awake.
Sitting on the couch feeling sorry for herself wasn't accomplishing anything.
His voice faded off as he realized that Lori and Josh were sitting at the opposite end of the table from Carmen.
At the familiar voice and stiff order, she struggled into a sitting position.
She clenched her meal bars and crossed to the living area, sitting with her back to him.
Elise released her, sitting back in shock.
She looked around when she reached the third mile marker, aware she was a sitting duck.
The only difference was the boards hammered over each of the windows, and the weapons sitting beside Mrs. Watson's rocking chair and stacked on the couch.
The two soldiers moved away, greeting the next group of people before sitting down to talk.
While I'm searching the ground for footprints, you think you can find her using the technological powerhouse you're sitting on?
Charlie asked, sitting on one of the trunks.
The forest was growing dark when he reached the tree to find the angel sitting in front of a dead fire, shaking with cold.
She wrote a cover story about how the police force is sitting around on their thumbs while the poor widow's little twin darlings remain missing.
And then they got sick of sitting around, and maybe ran out of dough I guess and figured the heat was off, so they came out.
He jammed in the cigarette lighter from his sitting position on the floor.
He could picture her sitting there, in her wraparound paisley with the torn-out hem.
Dean was knee-deep in a dream, trying to pull his Visa card away from Jeffrey Byrne, who was sitting on a cloud playing a harp, when his bedroom was suddenly filled with light.
The two travelers killed the time picking over a bland lunch and alternating long walks with longer periods of sitting on hard seats, re-reading a discarded newspaper.
He was sitting there a few moments later with Cynthia Byrne still unconscious when the attendant reappeared with Mr. Cole, a young intern, in tow.
I'm gonna have a ring around my be-hind for a week from sitting on this thing!
If you believed that was a fact we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it.
It wouldn't do him any good sitting in the hall in Scranton after he skipped.
Only I'll already be sitting there on a bar stool.
The assailant shoved Dean backwards, sitting him down hard on the concrete sidewalk as his head whacked the wall.
The two men were sitting outside Dean's recently-pitched tent in Cortez, Colorado.
There were numerous other tents in the area, many occupied and others with campers sitting outside enjoying the setting sun.
Anyway, he's nice and warm while I'm sitting here getting damp and cold.
Winston seemed to sense someone sitting on the bed but he could not recognize Dean in the darkened room.
And I wouldn't be sitting here in this elegant room, listening to classical guitar music and sipping manhattans with the light of my life, Dean thought.
She was sitting in a chair beside Katie, watching him with rapt attention.
The idea of sitting her chair beside his brought warmth to her cheeks.
Josh remained sitting in the hay, staring at her as if confused by her response.
He opened the door wider and when he saw Carmen sitting on the bed fully dressed, he entered the room and shut the door.
She was sitting at the table drinking a glass of milk when Katie walked in.
It was nice sitting there with him.
Sitting down with his back to the wall, he motioned for her to sit with her back against his chest.
He showed up suddenly when I was sitting beside the pond.
Just sitting there, enjoying the weather.
He was in the living room when she arrived, sitting in his chair reading the newspaper.
Bedtime began with their ritual of sitting on the window seat in each other's arms, watching their farm in the growing darkness.
Carmen was sitting on the window seat when Alex drove up Monday evening.
Lori was sitting on the porch swing, a red welt on one cheek.
Josh was sitting at the table nursing a cup of coffee with Alex.
After supper, Alex and Jonathan were sitting on the couch reading a book while she did the dishes.
Sitting there alone in Josh's living room while Lori slept, all Carmen could think about was the last moments for Josh.
The boy hesitated then left the floor where he sat and joined her sitting on the bed.
He couldn't imagine waking up to find an Other sitting in the corner.
Taran stepped into a cavernous bedchamber lit by low burning hearths and scented by the white flowers sitting in each window.
He knew nothing aside from Memon's heavy-fisted ways and those of the surrounding clans, but he felt far more comfortable sitting in a hall full of what should be the enemy than he ever had at Memon's court.
She was hauled into a sitting position by two beefy hands that then tore off her blindfold.
There were several hundred men and women in the makeshift arena, with the king's party of advisors and servants sitting within the ring against one wall.
Part of him reeled at the turn of events that found him sitting with a man who had never before acknowledged him.
When she returned to the house, Alex was sitting at the kitchen table, sipping coffee.
Carmen shut the door and crossed the room, sitting at the desk and indicating a chair for Sam.
She was sitting at the vanity table brushing her hair when he returned.
She nodded, sitting down on the bed.
Alondra and Alfonso were sitting in the front row.
He enjoyed coming home and sitting in his chair, relaxing and reading the newspaper while she put supper on the table.
She glanced around and saw Clarissa's date sitting alone near the entrance to the garden.
She tugged at one of the chunks of wood until she had it sitting straight on the stump, as he had done.
The hours passed without another scream and she was still sitting at the table when the first rays of morning light warmed the kitchen.
Ingrid left and returned with her laptop and an iPad, sitting at the table with him.
An iPad in a bright green case and a cell phone labeled work phone!!!!! was sitting on the table in the informal dining area, a sticky note on it.
She's totally sitting in Xander's lap.
She thought there was more to him earlier when he healed her and for a moment, she'd made the same mistake while sitting in his lap.
How long was she sitting in her stupor?
A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.
On the 17th of January he was named on the commission for law reform, of which Hale was the chief; and on the 17th of March 1653, he was pardoned of all delinquency and thus at last made capable of sitting in parliament.
He urged on the bill by which Catholics were prohibited from sitting in either House of Parliament, and was bitter in his expressions of disappointment when the Commons passed a proviso excepting James, against whom the bill was especially aimed, from its operation.
In connexion with this system of salaries should be mentioned a somewhat reactionary law carried by Pericles in 451, by which an Athenian parentage on both sides was made an express condition of retaining the franchise and with it the right of sitting on paid juries.
He was educated at Cambridge and afterwards entered politics, becoming private secretary to the Prime Minister, Lord Derby, from 1852 to 1855, and sitting as member for Beverley from 1854 to 1857.
It has then met at Lambeth, and after sitting for five days for deliberation upon the fixed subjects and appointment of committees, has adjourned, to meet again at the end of a fortnight and sit for five days more, to receive reports, adopt resolutions and to put forth the encyclical letter.
At the head of the whole organization is a General Synod, sitting at Paris.
The general council, when not sitting, is represented by a permanent delegation (commission departementale).
When sitting in its capacity as a criminal court it is known as the tribunal correctionnel.
After a struggle the Protestant faction gained the upper hand, and on the 7th of February 1550 Bonner's deprivation was confirmed by the council sitting in the Star Chamber, and he was further condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
I will put an end to your sitting."
Giovanni in Laterano - and the Virgin's wedding -ring; and at the north-east corner is a sitting statue of Pope Julius III.
The provincial council elects a provincial commission and the communal council a municipal council from among its own members; these smaller bodies carry on the business of the larger while they are not sitting.
The sittings of both houses are public, and an absolute majority of the members must be present to make a sitting valid.
All members that belong to the same category are sitting together.
One of these provided that all matters relating to the government shall be transacted in the Privy Council, and that all resolutions "shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same"; and another declared that all office-holders and pensioners under the Crown shall be incapable of sitting in the House of Commons.
The first of these, based on the English model, are the courts of the elected justices of the peace, with jurisdiction over petty causes, whether civil or criminal; the second, based on the French model, are the ordinary tribunals of nominated judges, sitting with or without a jury to hear important cases.
The district court, sitting with a jury, can try criminal cases without appeal, but only by special leave in each case of the court of appeal.
The Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade, sitting in 1909 to consider railway accounting forms, while recommending ton-miles to the careful consideration of those responsible for railway working in Great Britain, considered the question of their necessity in British practice to be still open, and held that, at all events, they should not be introduced under compulsion.
He used his influence in moderating measures of revenge and violence, and while sitting in judgment on the regicides was oi.
They are appointed, promoted, transferred or removed by order of the council of justice, a body composed of the five highest judicial dignitaries, sitting at Canea.
During the sitting of this Assembly it was carried by a majority of seventy-five votes that Henderson should be transferred to Edinburgh.
Having entered the army at an early age, Conway was elected to the Irish parliament in 1741 as member for Antrim, which he continued to represent for twenty years; in the same year he became a member of the English House of Commons, sitting for Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire, and he remained in parliament, representing successively a number of different constituencies, almost without interruption for more than forty years.
Before dawn of September the 4th (is Fructidor) Augereau with 2000 soldiers marched against the Tuileries, where the councils were sitting, dispersed XIX.
These two bodies nominally formed the legislature, the Tribunate merely discussing the bills sent to it by an important body, the Council of State; while the Corps Legislatif, sitting in silence, heard them defended by councillors of state and criticized by members of the Tribunate; thereupon it passed or rejected such proposals by secret voting.
In pursuance of the policy of encouraging the self-governing powers of the Basuto, a national council was instituted and held its first sitting in July 1903.
In 1219 the prior secured the right of holding a court there for all crown pleas and of sitting beside the justices itinerant, .and this led to serious collision between the monks and burgesses.
In the north of the island at least, the dead are buried in a sitting posture under the bed on which they have expired.
At the conclusion of the sitting, Lothar Meyer obtained a paper written by Stanislas Cannizzaro in 1858 wherein was found the final link required for the determination of atomic weights.
There was besides a provincial commission of five lawyers named by the governor-general from the members of the deputation, who settled election questions, and questions of eligibility in this body, gave advice as to laws, acted for the deputation when it was not sitting, and in general facilitated centralized control of the administrative system.
The senate and chamber met at San Stefano, and, sitting jointly as a National Assembly, issued a proclamation in favour of the committee and its army (April 22, 1909), by which Constantinople was now invested.
Upon his admission to a seafthe curious situation was presented of representatives of the state and of the territory of Wisconsin sitting in the same body.
As such, they were eagerly welcomed by the clergy; for a single magistrate, sitting in secret without appeal, necessarily grasps at whatever will lighten his burden of responsibility.
From its use in the sense of regulated order comes the application of the term to a class in a school (" sixth form," " fifth form," &c.); this sense has been explained without sufficient ground as due to the idea of all children in the same class sitting on a single form (bench).
The arbitral judgment is read out at a public sitting of the tribunal, the counsel and agents having been duly summoned to hear it.
Debray (1827-1888) he worked at the platinum metals, his object being on the one hand to prepare them pure, and on the other to find a suitable metal for the standard metre for the International Metric Commission then sitting at Paris.
Chase and Judge John C. Underwood constituted the United States circuit court sitting for Virginia before which the case was brought in December 1868; the court was divided, the chief justice voting to sustain the motion and Underwood to overrule it.
Appeals from the circuit courts can be made to the provincial court; and from the provincial court appeals lie to the appellate division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, sitting at Bloemfontein.
At the opening sitting (May 30) Czechs, Poles and Ruthenes defined their national attitude in formal resolutions, and the Slovene leader, Father Korosec, in the name of the Yugoslays, demanded " the union of all the Yugoslav territories of the Monarchy in an independent state organism, free from the rule of any foreign nation, and resting on a democratic basis, under the sceptre of the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty."
The Senate can interpose a veto in all matters of legislation, saving taxation, and where there is a collision between the two bodies, provision is made for reference to a court of arbitration, consisting of members of both houses in equal numbers, and also to the supreme court of the empire (Reichsgericht) sitting at Leipzig.
There is a provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa sitting at Pretoria (consisting of a judge president and six puisne justices) with original and appellate jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters.
And the Lord said to him, Ye shall be sitting on twelve thrones and judging the tribes of Israel.
The police courts of the City are held at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor or an alderman sitting as magistrate, and at the Guildhall, where the aldermen preside in rotation.
It was formerly represented in the Natal legislature by three members, one member sitting in the Legislative Council, and two being elected to the Legislative Assembly, one each for the districts of Eshowe and Melmoth.
Although not sacrosanct, they had the right of sitting in a curule chair and wore the distinctive toga praetexta.
Large chevron-bones are suspended to the vertebrae of the tail, which was massive, and probably afforded a support when the monster was sitting up. The humerus has no foramen, and the FIG.
A proposal was annexed to the proces-verbal of the final sitting, and the president closed the first session of the conference on the 25th of June 1898 with the expression of a hope that the delegates would soon reassemble.
Before 22 Prairial the Revolutionary Tribunal had pronounced 1220 death-sentences in thirteen months; during the forty-nine days between the passing of the law and the fall of Robespierre 1376 persons were condemned, including many innocent victims. The lists of prisoners to be sent before the tribunal were prepared by a popular commission sitting at the museum, and signed, after revision, by the Committee of General Security and the Committee of Public Safety jointly.
Then he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, sitting at the extreme left, and forming with C. Bazire and Merlin de Thionville the "Cordelier trio."
According to native report, the gorillas sleep on these beds, which are of sufficient thickness to raise them a foot or two above the ground, in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forwards on the breast.
Examples of acts of indemnity are two private acts passed in 1880 to relieve Lords Byron and Plunket from the disabilities and penalties to which they were liable for sitting and voting in the House of Peers without taking the oath.
Questions of jurisdiction between the superior and supreme courts, as well as questions of like character between the supreme court and the executive, are decided by the senate sitting as a court.
The great council consisted of 3200 citizens of blameless reputation and over twenty-five years of age, a third of the number sitting for six months in turn in the hall of the Cinquecento expressly built for the purpose.
This condition was elegantly defined by Carlyle as "sitting on a dungheap among innumerable dead dogs."
This special feature has been attributed to the Japanese habit of kneeling instead of sitting, but investigation shows that it is equally marked in the working classes who pass most of their time standing.
Men and women of all ranks began to visit it; the emperor himself consented (f 887) to witness a performance by the great stars of the stage at the private residence of Marquis Inouye; a dramatic reform association was organized by a number of prominent noblemen and scholars; drastic efforts were made to purge the old historical dramas of anachronisms and inconsistencies, and at length a theatre (the Yurabu-za) was built on purely European lines, where instead of sitting from morning to night witnessing one long-drawn-out drama with interludes of whole farces, a visitor may devote only a few evening-hours to the pastime.
Rugs of skins or rush matting were used for sitting on, and the whole - was surrounded with a palisade.
It was symbolized by the Greeks as an old man in a more or less sitting posture, with a goat and her kids in his left hand, and a bridle in his right.
It was found necessary to adjourn the sitting until the 7th of June, on which occasion the outward decencies were better observed, partly no doubt from the circumstance that Sigismund was present in person.
The sentence he expected was pronounced on the 6th of July in the presence of Sigismund and a full sitting of the council; once and again he attempted to remonstrate, but in vain, and finally he betook himself to silent prayer.
He began his parliamentary career as deputy for Civitavecchia in 1886, sitting on the Right, but he resigned his seat in 1897, having been appointed prefect of Perugia; three years later he went to Naples in a similar capacity, and in 1902 he was raised to the Senate.
Whilst the reeves are sitting on their eggs, scattered about the swamps, he is to be seen far away flitting about in flocks, and on the ground dancing and sparring with his companions.
Encouraged by these and other conventions in order to obstruct the collection of debts and taxes, a mob prevented a session of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace at Northampton on the 29th of August, and in September other mobs prevented the same court from sitting in Worcester, Middlesex and Berkshire counties.
About 000 insurgents under Shays assembled at Springfield on the 26th of September to prevent the sitting there of the Supreme Court, from which they feared indictments.
In the smoke-infested wigwam and hut the ground was the best place for sitting or sleeping.
There were special privileges surrounding tenancies of these lands, such as freedom from tolls and duties, exemption from danegeld and amercement, from sitting on juries, &c. Hence, the phrase "ancient demesne" came to be applied to the tenure by which the lands were held.
The work of inquisition into cases of heresy proceeded slowly in the hands of the bishops, who were too busy with other matters to find much time for sitting in judgment on theological points about which they were imperfectly informed.
A workman sitting at a balance files the edges of the piece and weighs it until it is within the remedy.
This system, with the addition of the Senate, the chancellor and the justices of the supreme court occasionally sitting as a court for the correction of errors, was retained with only slight changes until 1846.
At the fourth sitting it was decided to cite Simon Episcopius and several other Remonstrants to appear within fourteen days before the synod, to state and justify their doctrines.
At the 25th sitting Episcopius and the others cited appeared, when Episcopius surprised the deputies by a bold and outspoken defence of his views, and even went so far as to say that the synod, by excluding the Arminian deputies, could now only be regarded as a schismatic assembly.
The Remonstrants were asked to file copious explanations of the five points in dispute (Sententia Remonstrantium), but objecting to the manner in which they were catechized, they were, at the 57th sitting, dismissed from the synod as convicted "liars and deceivers."
The higher administration of justice is devolved upon six provincial courts and a supreme court, sitting at Colmar.
The assessment rolls of the county assessor are subject to alteration by the board of county commissioners sitting as a county board of equalization and the assessments as between counties are subject to alteration by the state board of equalization.
Treaties and military operations were at first of no avail, but in 1876 the United States government took steps to reduce them to submission, and Generals George Crook (1828-1890), Alfred Howe Terry (1827-1890) and John Gibbon (1827-1896), with 2700 troops (besides the Crow scouts) were sent against the Sioux under Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others.
By its provisions communications from the Government and the other House, and reports of commissions, had to take precedence of other business; further, the president could postpone to the end of the sitting formal motions, interpellations, emergency motions, and other obstructive measures.
The skin disease he had contracted in the subterranean haunts was rapidly closing his life; he could only ease his pain by sitting in a warm bath, where he wrote his journal; and accused the Girondins, who were trying to raise France against Paris.
Sitting thus on the 13th of July he heard in the evening a young woman begging to be admitted to see him, saying that she brought news from Caen, where the escaped Girondins were trying to rouse Normandy.
When forbidden to land, he told the messenger to inform the governor that he had seen Marius sitting as a fugitive among the ruins of Carthage.
The refusal of Lucien to put the vote of outlawry, for which the majority of the council clamoured, his opportune closing of the sitting, and his appeal to the soldiers outside to disperse les representants du poignard, turned the scale in favour of his brother.
During the period when Parliament is not sitting, a permanent commission of 24 members (16 from the deputies and 8 from the senators) sits to enact urgent measures which have temporarily the force of law.
The tribunals of the republic are the Supreme Court of Justice, which sits at Brno and is the court of final appeal both in civil and criminal causes, two high courts sitting at Prague and Brno respectively, 33 provincial courts and 410 district courts, all of which possess j urisdiction in both civil and criminal causes.
Well provided with funds, he speedily bought over many of the leading magnates, and his popularity reached its height when he strenuously advocated the adoption of the mode of election by the gentry en masse (which the szlachta proposed to revive), as opposed to the usual and more orderly "secret election" by a congress of senators and deputies, sitting with closed doors.
Two men are employed at this operation - one splitting and the other dressing, performing their work in a sitting posture.
This peculiar little inhabitant of the steppes and desert regions of Turkestan and Persia, by rubbing the imbricating scales upon each other, produces a shrill cricket-like noise, whilst sitting at night in front of its hole in the ground.
The laws and records of suits were set down in picture-writings, of which some are still to be seen; sentence of death was recorded by drawing a line with an arrow across the portrait of the condemned, and the chronicles describe the barbaric solemnity with which the king passed sentence sitting on a golden and jewelled throne in the divine tribunal, with one hand on an ornamented skull and the golden arrow in the other.
The rider sitting in the position described, square to the front, with his shoulders well back, will be riding with fairly long reins, one of the secrets of good hands.
To trot, press the legs to the saddle, and raise the bridle hand a little, and, after a moment's sitting close, begin to rise ("pose") in cadence with the action of the horse.
The issue was finally settled in 1849 when the earl of Elgin was governor and the Canadian legislature, sitting at Montreal, passed by a large majority the Rebellion Losses Bill, compensating citizens, some of them French, in Lower Canada, for losses incurred at the hands of the loyal party during the rebellion a decade earlier.
During the festival of Artemis at Delos, Acontius saw Cydippe, a well-born Athenian maiden of whom he was enamoured, sitting in the temple of the goddess.
Other paintings with which the name of the gallery is generally associated are Correggio's "La Notte" and "Mary Magdalene"; Titian's "Tribute Money" and "Venus"; "The Adoration" and "The Marriage in Cana," by Paul Veronese; Andrea del Sarto's "Abraham's Sacrifice"; Rembrandt's "Portrait of Himself with his Wife sitting on his Knee"; "The Judgment of Paris" and "The Boar Hunt," by Rubens; Van Dyck's "Charles I., his Queen, and their Children."
The usual prognostication of future distinction is attributed in the case of More to Cardinal Morton, " who would often tell the nobles sitting at table with him, where young Thomas waited on him, whosoever liveth to trie it shall see this child prove a notable and rare man."
During his later years he had been a cripple in consequence of a fall in the Chamber of Deputies, and he fought the last of his many duels sitting in a chair.
The powers of the two houses are the same except that the senate exercises the usual right of confirming appointments and of sitting as a court of impeachment, while the House of Representatives initiates money bills and impeachment cases.
It is governed by a general assembly or " synod " of deputies from the principal judicatures, sitting once a year.
Meanwhile although the states were still sitting at the Hague, an army of 14,000 troops under the command of Prince Frederick, second son of the king, was gradually approaching Brussels.
The chronicler known as Fredegarius Scholasticus relates that a queen was once sitting by the seashore, when a monster came out of the sea, and by this monster she subsequently became the mother of Merovech, but this myth is due to an attempt to explain the hero's name, which means "the sea-born."
At last, at the famous sitting of the 9th Thermidor, he ventured to present as the report of the committees of General Security and Public Safety a document expressing his own views, a sight of which, however, had been refused to the other members of committee on the previous evening.
This view was that of the rump of the chamber still sitting at the Palais Bourbon, and a deputation headed by Thiers and Laffitte waited upon the duke to invite him to place himself at the head of affairs.
To this, which seems authentic, is usually added the tradition (due to the abbe Boileau) that afterwards he used at times to see an imaginary precipice by his bedside, or at the foot of the chair on which he was sitting.
In every district of the Oberlandesgerichi, the Rechtsanlvdlte are formed into an Anwaltkammer (chamber of advocates), and the council of each chamber, sitting as a court of honor, deals with and determines matters affecting the honor of the profession.
The council of Basel was still sitting, and had elected an anti-pope, Felix V., in opposition to Eugenius IV., while the Frederick electors, adhering to their neutral attitude, sought Ill, and to bring Frederick into line with them on this question, the Some years were occupied in negotiations, but the Pa,oacv.
Should three such interchanges be made without agreement, a common plenary sitting is held of an equal number of both delegations; and these collectively, without discussion, decide the question by common vote.
So it came about in 1869, that on the first occasion when there was a joint sitting of the Delegations to settle a point in the von Rauscher (1797-1875), cardinal archbishop of Vienna, who had earned his red hat by the share he had taken in arranging the concordat of 1855, and now attempted to use his great personal influence with the emperor (his former pupil) to defeat the bill.
So long as parliament was sitting they were kept in check; as soon as it had voted supplies and the Delegations had separated, they ordered new elections in all those diets where there was a Liberal majority.
The next day, when the sitting began, one of the ministers, Count Falkenhayn, a Clerical who was very unpopular, moved " That any member who continued to disturb a sitting after being twice called to order could be suspended - for three days by the president, and for thirty days by the House."
The next day, at the beginning of the sitting, the Socialists rushed on the platform, tore up and destroyed all the papers lying there, seized the president, and held him against the wall.
During the early months of 1900 matters were more peaceful, and Korber hoped to be able to arrange a compromise; but the Czechs now demanded the restoration of their language in the internal service of Bohemia, and on 8th June, by noise and disturbance, obliged the president to suspend the sitting.
On one occasion a sitting lasted 57 hours without interruption.
In the oriental quarters of the city the curious shops, the markets of different trades (the shops of each trade being generally congregated in one street or district), the easy merchant sitting before his shop, the musical and quaint street-cries of the picturesque vendors of fruit, sherbet, water, &c., with the ever-changing and many-coloured throng of passengers, all render the streets a delightful study for the lover of Arab life, nowhere else to be seen in such perfection, or with so fine a background of magnificent buildings.
The "Melancolia," numbered "1" as though intended to be the first of a series, with its brooding winged genius sitting dejectedly amidst a litter of scientific instruments and symbols, is hard to interpret in detail, but impossible not to recognize in general terms as an embodiment of the spirit of intellectual research (the student's "temperament" was supposed to be one with the melancholic), resting sadly from its labours in a mood of lassitude and defeat.
Speaking generally, articles of decoration and embellishment not used in the services cannot lawfully be introduced into a church without the consent of the ordinary given by a faculty, the granting of which is subject to the judicial discretion of the chancellor or commissary, sitting as judge of the bishop's court.
He was absent from the important sitting of the 18th of June 1870, and did not send in his submission to the decrees until 1871, when he explained in a pastoral letter that the dogma "referred only to doctrine given forth ex cathedra, and therein to the definitions proper duly, but not to its proofs or explanations."
Let a man maintain this mindfulness all the while he is awake, whether he be standing, walking, sitting or lying down.
The execution, or rather murder, of Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas by the communists on 18th March, which he vainly tried to prevent, brought him into collision with the central committee sitting at the hotel de Tulle, and they ordered his arrest, but he escaped; he was accused, however, by various witnesses, at the subsequent trial of the murderers (November 29th), of not having intervened when he might have done, and though he was cleared of this charge it led to a duel, for his share in which he was prosecuted and sentenced to a fine and a fortnight's imprisonment.
It is in keeping with his restless character that he is rarely found sitting.
He answered that He was, and He predicted that they should see the fulfilment of Daniel's vision of the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power.
Meanwhile Peter in the court below had been sitting with the servants, and in his anxiety to escape recognition had thrice declared that he did not know Jesus.
Before the election was decided Kruger took care to conciliate the volksraad members, as well as to see that at all the volksraad elections, which occurred shortly before the presidential election, his supporters were returned, or, if not returned, that his opponents were objected to on some trivial pretext, and by this means prevented from actually sitting in the volksraad until the presidential election was over.
Sitting with his snuff-box before him, and his head bent down, he looked ill at ease, and kept turning the folios of his notes.
Jesus in the painted window of Mansfeld church, stern of face, sword in hand, sitting on a rainbow, coming to judge; an altarpiece at Magdeburg, in which a ship with its crew was sailing on to heaven, carrying no layman on board; the deeds of St Elizabeth emblazoned on the window of St George's parish church at Eisenach; the living pictures of a young nobleman who had turned monk to save his soul, of a monk, the holiest man Luther had ever known, who was aged far beyond his years by his maceration; and many others of the same kind.
Thus, by his enemies, Thorbecke was often held up to scorn as a pure materialist and no friend of the fine arts, because at a sitting of the states-general in 1862 he had said that it is not the duty of the state, nor in the true interest of art itself, for the government to "protect" art, since all state-aided art must be artificial, like any forced plant.
A third of the number had annually to retire for a year, so that two-thirds formed the sitting council.
The governor is assisted by an executive council of five official and two elected members, and a legislative council of 27 members, 8 sitting officio, 9 being nominated by the governor and io elected on a moderate franchise.
In the centre the colossal statue of Luther rises, on a pedestal at the base of which are sitting figures of Peter Waldo, Wycliffe, Hus and Savonarola, the heralds of the Reformation; at the corners of the platform, on lower pedestals, are statues of Luther's contemporaries, Melanchthon, Reuchlin, Philip of Hesse, and Frederick the Wise of Saxony, between which are allegorical figures of Magdeburg (mourning), Spires (protesting) and Augsburg (confessing).
We hear of the extraordinary agreement made by two candidates for the consulship in Caesar's interest with the sitting consuls of 54 B.C., which Cicero says he hardly ventures to put on paper.
The period thus spent in the provinces will never exceed three months; in London, with the frequent sitting at Clerkenwell and of the Central Criminal Court, it is seldom more than one month.
These ceorls, sitting on gafol-land, were, though personally free, considered as a lower order of men, and lapsed gradually into more or less oppressive subjection in respect of the great landowners.
It now consists of 48 members, of whom 28 are nominated, and the remainder are elected by local bodies, landholders, Mahommedans, &c. In Agra the chartered high court sitting at Allahabad, and in Oudh the court of the judicial commissioner, sitting at Lucknow, have final jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases, subject to appeal to the privy council.
Instead of sitting at Westminster he took part in the unsuccessful rising at Tunbridge in favour of King Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters.
On the 27th, the day of Oxford's resignation, the discussions concerning his successor detained the council sitting in the queen's presence till two o'clock in the morning, and on retiring Anne was instantly seized with fatal illness.
While the council was still sitting the Bavarian minister, Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfiirst, suggested to Bismarck that the 'Powers would do well to bring its deliberations to an end; and immediately after the publication of its decrees Austria notified the pope that so vast an extension of the Church's claims would necessitate a revision of the concordat.
A number of victims were brought to the scaffold, and Catholics were declared incapable of sitting in either house of parliament.
This virtually removed all restrictions on Catholics, except that it left them incapable of filling the offices of Regent, Lord Chancellor, or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and it expressly debarred their priests from sitting in the House of Commons.
He cannot, therefore, sit in the House of Commons, but there is nothing to prevent a peer who is a priest from sitting and voting in the House of Lords.
This diet was on the old Swedish model, consisting of representatives of the four estates - nobility, clergy, burghers and peasants - sitting and voting in separate " Houses."
The new diet, instead of being composed of four estates sitting separately, consists of a single chamber of 200 members elected directly by universal suffrage, women being eligible.
She is personified as a widowed princess, bereaved and desolate, sitting amid the ruins of her former joys, and brooding over her calamities.
All power was vested in the people as represented by the Riksdag, consisting, as before, of four distinct estates, nobles, priests, burgesses and peasants, sitting and deliberating apart.
The king, however, declared he could not now accept their resignation, whereupon the ministry at a sitting of the Norwegian Storthing on the 7th of June placed their resignation in its hands.
In the United Kingdom the budget is placed by the executive before the whole House, without any previous examination except by the cabinet, and it is scrutinized by the House sitting as a committee; in the majority of countries, however, the budget undergoes a preliminary examination by a specially selected committee, which has the power to make drastic changes in the proposals of the executive.
The detective is the direct descendant of the old "Bow Street runners" or "Robin Redbreasts" - so styled from their scarlet waistcoats - officers in attendance upon the old-fashioned police offices and despatched by the sitting magistrates to follow up any very serious crime in the interests of the public or at the urgent request of private persons.
Roman Catholics and all concerned in the Irish rebellion were permanently disfranchised and declared incapable of sitting in parliament, and those who had taken part in the war against the parliament were condemned to a similar disability during the first four parliaments.
There must be a session of parliament every year, so arranged that twelve months shall not elapse between the last day of one session and the first sitting of the next session.
Parliament may alter the qualifications for the vote, but no law which would deprive coloured persons in the Cape province of the franchise can be effective " unless the bill be passed by both houses of parliament sitting together and at the third reading be agreed to by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of both houses."
If a bill passed by the Assembly has been twice rejected by the Senate, provision is made for a joint sitting of both houses, when members vote and decide upon the measure concerned as one body.
In the case of a money bill rejected by the Senate a joint sitting to decide its fate may be held in the same session in which the Senate has failed to pass the bill.
After sitting at Durban for a month, the convention adjourned to Cape Town and concluded its elaboration of a draft constitution by February 1909.
They were originally nominated by the higher magistrates, but subsequently elected in a body at a single sitting of the comitia tributa; under the empire they were chosen by the senate.
It was then decided that such rights should cease, except in the case of princes of royal blood and members then sitting, and that when all the hereditary peerages had lapsed the house should be composed of the princes of the royal blood, the archbishops and bishops of the continental dioceses, a hundred legislative peers appointed by the king for life, and fifty elected every new parliament by the Commons.
The dead are buried in the hut; a square grave is dug in which the body is arranged in a sitting position with the hands tied behind the back.
But although in strict logic the feudal causes concerning them should have been judged by them alone, they could not maintain this right in the curia regis; the other persons sitting in it could also take part in judging causes which concerned the peers.
Soon afterwards he exchanged his chair of history for one of poetry, continuing to contribute political articles to the Debats, and sitting as deputy in the chamber from 1835 to 1848.
He was among the first of the clergy to join the third estate, and contributed largely to the union of the three orders; he presided at the permanent sitting of sixty-two hours while the Bastille was being attacked by the people, and made a vehement speech against the enemies of the nation.
When on the 7th of November 1793 Gobel, bishop of Paris, was intimidated into resigning his episcopal office at the bar of the Convention, Gregoire, who was temporarily absent from the sitting, hearing what had happened, hurried to the hall, and in the face of a howling mob of deputies refused to abjure either his religion or his office.
At the first sitting of this diet, on the 24th of October, it was declared that the three estates had agreed henceforth " to live together in friendly intercourse, as became men belonging to the same country and race."
The power and the weight may thus be said to reciprocate, the two sitting as it were side by side and blending their peculiar influences to produce a common result, as indicated at fig.
It may be prefaced by stating that, according to returns made in 1905, the Church of England provided sitting accommodation in parish and other churches for 7,177,144 people; had an estimated number of 2, 0 53,455 communicants, 206,873 Sunday-school teachers, and 2,538,240 Sunday scholars.
For centuries before, from the reign of Edward III., under a number of statutes and commissions, the administrative work in the counties had been in the hands of the country gentlemen and the clergy, acting as justices of the peace, and sitting in petty sessions and quarter sessions.
At last he came (here some words are missing) and began to teach sitting under a plane tree.
In the resolution which was adopted on the 2nd of March the chamber," imbued with the ideas which presided over the foundation of the Congo State and inspired the Act of Berlin,"expressed its confidence in the proposals which the commission of reforms was elaborating, and decided" to proceed without delay to the examination of the projected law of the 7th of August 1901, on the government of Belgium's colonial possessions."The report of the reforms commission was not made public, but as the fruit of its deliberations King Leopold signed on the 3rd of June 1906 a number of decrees embodying various While the commission was sitting, further evidence was forthcoming that the system complained of on the Congo remained unaltered, and that the" reforms "of June 1906 were illusory.
After a nine-hours' truce the palace was stormed, and Boniface was found lying in his bed, a cross clasped to his breast; that he was sitting in full regalia on the papal throne is a legend.
The judicial power is vested in the Senate sitting as a court of impeachment, in the Supreme Court, the district courts, in justices of the peace, and in " such inferior courts as may be established by law."
The churches represented in the National Council have 9966 ministers, 55,828 local preachers, 407,991 Sunday-school teachers, 3,416,377 Sunday scholars, 2,178,221 communicants, and sitting accommodation for 8,555,460.
The sitting of parliament is signified by a flag on Victoria Tower in daytime and by a light at the summit of the clock tower at night.
The Lord sitting on His throne with the ten chief orders of angels.
In 1872 a law was passed by which the bishops were elected by the senate, the chamber of deputies, and the synod sitting as an assembly (the only other occasion on which provision is made for such an assembly is in the event of the throne becoming vacant without any apparent heir).
Metropolitans and bishops are elected by the senate and deputies, sitting together.
The existing laws and statutes of both principalities were to be revised by a European Commission, sitting at Bucharest, and their work was to be assisted by a Divan or national council which the Porte was to convoke for the purpose in each of the two provinces, and in which all classes of Walachian and Moldavian society were to be represented.
A bill was passed endowing the crown with state lands, giving an annual rent of £24,000 in addition to the civil list fixed in 1866 at £49,000; another measure granted free passes on the railways and an allowance of £1 daily during the sitting of parliament to all senators and deputies.
It was mainly a war of sieges, Henry sitting down before Lubusz, Glogau and Breslau, all of which he failed to take.
Julius, who was anxious to be on good terms with Charles on account of the council of Trent which was then sitting, ordered Farnese to hand Parma over to the papal authorities once more, and on his refusal hurled censures and admonitions at his head, and deprived him of his Roman fiefs, while Charles did the same with regard to those in Lombardy.
From 1782, therefore, there were two independent legislatures within the British Islesthe one sitting at Westminster and the other sitting in Dublin.
In their arboreal life, and the habit of sitting up on their hind-legs with their food grasped in the fore-paws, dormice are like squirrels, from which they differ in being completely nocturnal.
But nothing said would make Badby confess that "Christ sitting at supper did give to His disciples His living body to eat."
It was decreed that no deputy should be minister while sitting in the House or for two years after.
Upon Robespierre's motion it had decreed that none of its members should be capable of sitting in the next legislature.
Since December 1797 a congress had been sitting at Rastadt to regulate the future of Germany.
On the rare occasions when a sitting of the court is necessary, it is held in the library of Lambeth Palace, or at the Church House, Westminster.
As there are now fourteen treaty powers represented at Shanghai, there are consequently fourteen distinct courts sitting side by side, each administering the law of its own nationality.
The majority contained 29 members considered independent, 44 who expected to be bought, 44 placemen, 12 sitting for regular government boroughs, and 12 who were supposed to support the government on public grounds.
There was a sitting of 22 hours and another of 41 hours, and on the 2nd of February [From Anglo-Norman Invasion] the debate was closured by the Speaker on his own responsibility and the bill read a first time.
At the first sitting of the Land Commission in Dublin the crier, perhaps by accident, declared "the court of the Land League to be open."
The local legislature was to consist of two orders sitting and voting together, but with the power of separating on the demand of either order present.
The original Deuteronomy, D, read to King Josiah, cannot have been so large as our present book, for not only could it be read at a single sitting, but it could be easily read twice in one day.
On the 14th of January 1799, however, the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, decided that it had no jurisdiction, Blount not then being a member of the Senate, and, in the Senate's opinion, not having been, even as a member, a civil officer of the United States, within the meaning of the constitution.
He calls his own child Dawn or Cloud, his own name is Sitting Bull or Running Wolf, and he is not tempted to explain his great-grandfather's name of Bright Sun or Lively Raccoon on the hypothesis that the ancestor really was a raccoon or the sun.
They insinuated themselves into the counsels of their ignorant masters, and though still sitting humbly at the feet of the barons, these upright and well-educated servitors were already dreaming of the great deeds they would do when.
Thanks to the prudent constable du Guesclin, sitting quietly at home he reconquered bit by bit what his predecessors had lost upon the battlefield, helm on head and sword in hand; and when he died in 1380, after the decease of both Edward III.
The corpse of Louis XIV., left to servants for disposal, and saluted all along the road to Saint Denis by the curses of a noisy crowd sitting in the cabarets, celebrating his death by drinking more than their fill as a compensation for having suffered too much from hunger during his lifetimesuch was the coarse but sincere epitaph which popular opinion placed on the tomb of the Grand Monarque.
Meanwhile he annulled the sitting of the Juii9e 23, 17th, and demanded the immediate dispersal of the Assembly.
By a provision unique in 1875, the constitution authorized the legislature to provide that the electors might express their preferences for United States senators; but this was not treated as mandatory on the legislature, and though votes were at times taken (1886, 1894), they were not officially canvassed, nor were any senatorial The amendment increased the pay of members from three dollars to five dollars a day " during their sitting," and provided that sessions should last at least sixty days, and that members should not receive pay " for more than sixty days at any one sitting"; the original constitution had provided that they should " not receive pay for more than forty days at any one session " and had prescribed no minimum length for a session.
Thus there is left a space between the two hoods through which the sound of the orchestra ascends with wonderfully blended effect; the conductor, sitting at the highest point of the orchestra, though under the screen, has a complete view of the stage as well as of his instrumentalists, and the sound of the orchestra is sent most forcibly in the direction of the stage, so that the voices are always well supported.
The Kapp coup in Berlin, which in some of its aspects sprang from similar anxieties in Prussia, gave the signal for political action in Munich, and at a midnight sitting the Bavarian Socialist Ministry was somewhat unceremoniously hustled out of office - it is alleged under military pressure - and a Coalition Cabinet under von Kahr installed.
After the meal, he remained in the kitchen, sitting at the table, watching her while she put the leftovers away and put the dishes in the dishwasher.
Meanwhile, bastards are raping babies and we're sitting around bitching at each other.
My … mate's house is sitting on the bodies of tens of thousands of Guardians.
Later, much later, Dean had spelled her, sitting up with Martha, who was far more upset with the prospect of flying Bird Song's nest than she let on during the daylight hours.
Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.
He made the entire trip up without seeing another vehicle, and the lords of luck were with him—Jennifer Radisson's camera was sitting in the crevice of a rock as if it were waiting for him.
It's true Mr. Dean has been under fire—it's fortunate we're standing here today—not sitting.
Dean passed a timeworn farmhouse now sitting empty on land far more valuable to a developer than its intended use, its torn curtains shimmering in the paint-peeled window frame—an Andrew Wyeth painting.
He remembered her paraphrase of John Donne while they were sitting in the park, "No man's death diminishes me because I won't let it."
Sarah's Soul Mate Du Jour was Connor Poe, and without having to be told, Jackson knew the human would be sitting or pacing below them in what could only be described as a holding cell.
When Sarah came downstairs, he was sitting with a drink and a glass of blood.
She found him sitting up in bed staring at the blood-spattered wall.
Sitting in the oversized chair near the fire with blood cocktail in hand, brand new emotion washed over him.
The guy's sitting on some tropical beach with a babe in his lap.
Dean had showered and changed and was sitting under a tree licking a frozen yogurt desert and chatting with a group of riders from Texas when the old man strolled up.
A group of bikers stopped with a squeal of brakes and ran down the slight embankment to his side just as he gingerly moved himself to a sitting position.
Sitting around and waiting for him to initiate the discussion was a continuation of the neglect he had already been experiencing.
His now vibrant eyes had been empty, and he'd spent many days just sitting with Sofi in the study.
We did not see this object join the original and appeared to be sitting adjacent.
Just sitting with the wonderfully elaborate box that the handset ships in made me forget my once embarrassing lust for the Motorola phone.
Here is a primitive description of the sun god sitting on his throne in his heavenly abode.
Conservation volunteering is a worthwhile and healthy outdoor activity which makes a pleasant change from sitting at a desk!
But the heartthrob actor refused to meet anyone he didn't know and insisted on sitting in his own VIP area all evening.
The Ballroom has a bar adjoining for either sitting out or relaxing.
Top of page angled rails Angled rails are useful anywhere you want to change height (from standing to sitting, for example ).
View to making said ann whose sitting at the.
Cozy sitting room with open fire and dining area.
Is it right that you should be casting such aspersions on those sitting behind Mr Trimble?
We're just sitting our lazy asses deep underground, scooping the surface for idiotic whitehat trash to mess with.
That's a long time to be watching two socially awkward individuals sitting with their faces cupped in their hands.
Note the elaborate painted backcloth, suggesting an opulent sitting room.
Their policy seems to consist entirely of sitting on their fat backsides doing absolutely bugger all in response to enquiries from prospective customers.
Samuel was sitting by the fire near his mother, who was frying some bacon for supper.
The age saw flagpole sitting public goldfish swallowing and other outdoor marathons to generate ballyhoo.
Garden - great for sitting out or enjoying a barbecue; Out door clothes line.
Later, dressed in a white bathrobe, she is sitting on the edge of the bed.
Sitting typing away at emails in a lonely hotel room, it's even bearable to listen to music from the built-in speakers.
When he got to the creek, he saw a beaver sitting beside the stream.
Next morning I went outside to get the paper and I saw a small black box sitting on my doorstep.
Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
Sitting on a steep bluff, overlooking the River Gwendraeth, is more complete than many of its contemporaries.
Above the lower deck is the main sitting room, which looked to be a bit small for a full boatload.
Ollie was sitting on his car bonnet swaying to the beat - a true party cat.
I feel like sitting in a pub and drowning my pain in good booze and good company, but I'll be there.
We saw, sitting on a vast granite boulder, a man who looked at us.
How long do you spend sitting around shooting the breeze?
We went to the canteen and low and behold who did I see sitting at a table, but my father's brother.
He could probably eat a hundred brownies at one sitting, without stopping.
I found him in bed with a little green budgerigar sitting on his head!
When they are not soaring aloft buzzards are commonly seen sitting motionless on a telegraph pole or bare branch.
I recently heard a story about a young police cadet sitting his final exams at Hendon Police College.
I was sitting at a pavement cafe in Holland Park, sipping a cappuccino in the bright spring sunshine.
Traverse - the acting area is down the middle with audience sitting on two opposite sides, a bit like a fashion show catwalk.
Where I'm sitting there's a delicious smell of fresh celery from the veg bed next to me.
You will then be able to sit in a reclining chair in the sitting room.
Am I really sitting in this little wooden chair?
She is sitting on a tripod, three legs going rather high over a huge chasm from which rises incense smelling heavy dense smoke.
Two hours later and we have finally circumnavigated the points-of-view of the people sitting round the table.
The sills of the glazing are low, enabling people sitting on sofas or chairs to enjoy uninterrupted views of the surrounding cityscape.
Sitting by the roadside is a scantily clad woman who with maternal care shelters her child from the biting blast.
Large sitting room with exposed beams and fireplace with log burner, downstairs cloaks, 2 staircases.
Sitting on the gunner's swivel seat in the rear cockpit, I had turned to face forward.
But I soon found out it was going to involve more work than sitting in cafes sipping decent coffee.
Probably even longer after I've drank this pint of ice cold coke sitting right next to me here.
Jesus was sitting upon an unbroken colt, which was covered with their own coats, and was led to Jerusalem.
Each card can be read in one sitting, boosting the confidence of even the most reluctant reader.
Sitting here I've got a mixture of sadness and complete contentment.
I do remember the police pulling up to see me sitting in my car eating chocolate cookies in the wee small hours.
See that the bottom of your broody coop is made uncomfortable, so that sitting will become a burden to the birds.
Do you have $ 1,400 just sitting around waiting to hire a professional copywriter?
There's fishwife Liza Swan carrying her heavy creel, and children with bare feet sitting on the ground baiting lines.
She was shaped like a pear, and when she wore a crinoline she looked like a frog sitting on a lily pad.
A. Yes, there's a bath-tub scene where I was sitting in it all crooked for an entire day.
I woke up at 4am with the distinct feeling that a collie cross trembling with fear was sitting on my head - another first.
I arrived to find my friend's father sitting cross-legged on a rock, a knife clasped between his teeth, busily cleaning mackerel.
Then they toasted crumpets on a rickety fork, sitting side by side, feet in the hearth, without speaking.
Had the best afternoon sitting in the pub, read all the papers and I'm feeling very cultured and full.
Just Steve Rider sitting there in a dimly lit London broom cupboard looking bored off his ass.
One of my abiding childhood memories is sitting in front of the television with a plate of orange iced cupcakes, watching Scooby-Doo.
Wilma who was sitting in the other boat also saw green ibis, anhinga and black curassow.
I am back and sitting in the kitchen but still a bit dazed and confused.
With Mr Galloway sitting in front of him, the judge said the MP had been seriously defamed.
They're sitting ducks up there, " said a Western diplomat.
Upper North Tyne News FANCY sitting here on a beautiful summer morning writing about dog dirt.
Returning from a break to find someone else sitting at your desk can be extremely disconcerting.
The old woman sitting before them became suddenly distant.
There was the parcel sitting on the front doorstep.
The features throughout are classically Georgian with a water color within the carved doorway leading to the sitting room.
Sitting Room 2 sofas, 2 easy chairs, antique chests, welsh dresser, high beams, French doors to private road area.
There is an old telex machine in one of the offices, sitting dusty in the corner, making you think it's 1976.