Stood-in Sentence Examples
A 55-gallon barrel stood in one corner with rags hanging over the edge.
Julia and Rachel were out shopping, and she stood in his doorway, not sure what to say.
She stood in the road after he left, watching until he turned a corner and drove out of sight.
A spinning wheel stood in one corner, partially covered by a dusty sheet, and beside it, a mahogany rocker with a cobbler seat.
My wife stood in front of the others as they all waited behind her.
Unnoticed, Betsy stood in the kitchen doorway, a sandwich in her hand, munching away.
I stood in silence.
A tall, toned woman who looked like she did Pilates for a living stood in the hall in tight black leather pants and a tight pink T-shirt that drew attention to her large breasts.
Two large men stood in front of the door across the hall.
He stood in the center, one phone at his ear while he texted on another.
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When the coldness released her, she stood in the middle of a large conference hall.
While he stood in Dusty's corner, she wasn't convinced he'd chosen a side.
Her father stood in the doorway of the house, framed against the light of the foyer.
She stood in a dark, cold place, gazing at the hunched form in the corner.
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He stood in front of the door, unmoving as she explored her surroundings.
She stood in front of the door nervously for a long moment, not certain it would open.
Another thought crossed her mind as she stood in Hell's library.
Cynthia returned, a warm smile on her face as she stood in the doorway.
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He liked trying to get a rise out of her, and he really did want to know where they stood in her mind and whether or not he had to worry about her running off to make more deals with Darkyn.
The red headed man stood in front of her, lust in his eyes and smile.
Alex stood in the stirrups, aiming the rifle at the bear.
Dr. Wynn stood in the middle of his office.
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He ran his tongue over his pointed teeth and stood in the center of her living room, pensive and hungry.
Dressed warmly, she left her room and stood in the brightly lit, spacious hallway, not at all certain how to leave the stronghold.
She stood in the warm silence, senses intoxicated by their bond, his scent and body.
She stood in the hallway, staring at the door slammed in her face, holding a fistful of papers she didn't know what to do with.
Her vision cleared to reveal she now stood in a luxurious living room with several people in front of her displaying varying levels of alarm on their faces.
She and the Germans stood in silent awe, too drunk to feel the cold.
They stood in silence, watching the waves fling the book around before sinking it.
He stood in the gently lit bedroom of his brother, Kiki.
Rhyn stood in the same place she'd left him, unchanged in any way.
He led her down a floor to a large gym where a group of men stood in a loose cluster on a mat.
Evaluating each other, the three creatures stood in tight silence before Rhyn spoke at last.
He stood in front of the glass French doors of the balcony, taking up the whole space with his massive frame and heavy trench coat.
Her mate, Rhyn, stood in heavy boots, running pants, and a tank top.
Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.
He stood in the hallway smiling, his predatory look assuring her he had no plans of letting his dinner escape him.
An hour later, Katie stood in a similar-looking fortress several times the size of the Caribbean Sanctuary.
Katie stood in the back doorway to the castle, hoping Rhyn returned soon.
His youngest sister, Talal, stood in the doorway to his war quarters, her gaze hopeful.
Evelyn stood in the dark grey room of the spaceship with its cozy, dim lighting and the soft purr of hidden machines.
They stood in front of an airy, light tent resembling a silk sheet suspended in midair over a table.
At her entrance, those in the nearest circle with Ne'Rin ceased their activity and bowed, then stood in a line and waited.
The single flower still stood in the fountain, and she crossed to it.
Evelyn stood in the middle of the room.
They stood in silence, comfortable and whole in each other's arms.
Effie stood in the middle of the room, as if enthralled and after all the smiles and appropriate handshakes, took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
He stood in front of them and shouted, I mean you no harm.
He turned, looking over the back of the sofa and there she stood in a plush white robe with a towel on her head and yes, she definitely had a waddle to her walk.
He stood in a forest with a woman, whose face he could not see.
He stood in the parking lot searching for her and sniffed the air.
Jackson stood in front of the open refrigerator, taking out bags one at a time, tasting, then either putting them back or on the table.
Connor stood in the bedroom doorway.
She stood in front of him.
He stood in front of a still life, drinking in its beauty.
Elisabeth was setting up to work in her studio as Jackson stood in the doorway, arms crossed, watching her.
Sneering at Jackson in disgust, Victor stood in front of Elisabeth and began hitting her, first with open hand and then backhand, sending her head flailing from side to side.
They cleaned up the mess and then stood in awkward silence, watching Brutus.
The muscular woman, with short blond hair and clad in black tactical gear, stood in a stark white hallway.
The elderly woman stood in her doorway and waved.
The politician managed to make even his casual wear appear distinguished as he stood in the doorway with sparkling blue eyes.
Tim stood in his black fed uniform, comfortable with the soldiers eyeing him.
Lana stood in the silence outside the operation room, exhausted and worried.
For the first time since leaving Darkyn, Rhyn realized no one had tried to stop him yet. No demons stood in front of Kiki's door and Darkyn hadn't ordered the castle after him.
He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block. He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell. She was curled up on the bed, sobbing. When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why. Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood. The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.
In the morning, I stood in front of the mirror getting ready for school.
He was still wobbly as he stood in the hot shower while the sun dipped below the horizon.
He eschewed the pulpit and stood in front of the altar, looking like a caricature of Ichabod Crane, gaunt and gangling, but the words from his mouth were pure silver.
He stood in one fluid movement.
She stood in the darkness for a long time, and then finally went to bed.
For a moment they stood in each other's arms, gazing into each others eyes.
He pulled her close again and for a few moments they stood in silence again.
For a minute after the patio door slid shut she stood in stunned silence, too shocked by his outburst to think of a response.
When she lifted her head, a horse stood in front of her.
Carmen stood in the stirrups and studied the two calves? both females.
Carmen stood in the stirrups and craned her neck to see what was troubling him.
She stood in shocked silence as the plane left the ground.
She rose and gasped, not sensing the silent Xander, who stood in the doorway to the living room.
She stood in the doorway, silver-blue eyes swirling and arms crossed.
He took a hot shower to soothe the muscle aches and stood in the hot water, letting it run over him.
When she entered, Darian stood in the middle of the foyer, surveying the vamps staring at him like the god he was.
Dusty stood in the corner of a small hotel room, peering out the windows.
It was all that stood in the place where the palace had been.
When he opened his eyes, the three of them stood in the middle of the city.
One of the warriors stood in the hall next to a sleepy servant.
Megan watched as he stood in front of the mirror and shaved.
Jessi froze, not completely connecting with the fact she stood in a place unlike the coastal southern California area.
She stood in the doorway to his room for a long moment, trying to figure out how the hell he knew so much about her.
As with the girl yesterday, this one stood in the middle of the hallway, lost.
She tossed her salad and stood in line to get him his coffee then walked across the parking lot to the Barnes and Noble.
She stood in the center of what looked like a ski lodge with one massive wall of windows overlooking the mountains.
He argued that a single worthless life stood in the way of the regeneration of Russia, and he therefore deliberately removed it.
They seem to have stood in the intercolumniations half-way up the outside wall and to have supported the epistyle.
The total number of men who had re-enlisted stood in 1903 at 8594.
It contains the panelling of a room from the house of Edmund Hector, which formerly stood in Old Square, Birmingham, where Dr Samuel Johnson was a frequent visitor.
That city, like Ravenna, originally stood in the midst of a lagoon; and the coast east of it to near Monfalcone, where it meets the mountains, is occupied by similar expanses of water, which are, however, becoming gradually converted into dry land.
It is likely that they were outside the town, but stood in a sacred enclosure.
The word holiness (qodesh) in primitive Hebrew usage partook of the nature of taboo, and came to be applied to whatever, whether thing or person, stood in close relation to deity and belonged to him, and could not, therefore, be used or treated like other objects not so related, and so was separated or stood apart.
There was a poor and weak Jerusalem, its Temple stood in need of renovation, its temple-service was mean, its priests unworthy of their office.
Already under Charlemagne this development is noticeable; in his generous treatment of the Jews this Christian emperor stood in marked contrast to his contemporary the caliph Harun al-Rashid, who persecuted Jews and Christians with equal vigour.
Jan van Ruysbroeck (1294-1381), the father of mysticism in the Netherlands, stood in connexion with the Friends of God, and Tauler is said to have visited him in his seclusion at Groenendal (Vauvert, Griinthal) near Brussels.Ruy sbroeck.
After this battle Poland-Lithuania began to be regarded in the west as a great power, and Witowt stood in high favour with the Roman curia.
Harpagus afterwards stood in high favour with Cyrus, and commanded the army which subdued the coasts of Asia Minor; his family seems to have been settled in Lycia.
The abbey stood in the marshes, on a branch of the Lea known as the Abbey Creek, about 2 m.
During this process of growth the kingdom stood in relation to two sects of powers - the three Frankish principalities in northern Syria, and the Mahommedan powers both of the Euphrates and the Nile - whose action affected its growth and character.
She became his mistress, while her sister Theodora stood in a similar relation to the emperor Manuel.
The beautiful choragic monument of Lysicrates, dedicated in the archonship of Euaenetus (335-334 B.C.), is the only survivor of a number of such structures which stood in the The choragic " Street of the Tripods " to the east of the Dionysiac monument theatre, bearing the tripods given to the successful of choragi at the Dionysiac festival.
Fulvius Flaccus gained a triumph for his victory, and it was probably then that the statue of Vertumnus which stood in the Vicus Tuscus at Rome was brought from Volsinii.
High above all the medley of kindreds and tongues, untrammelled by national traditions, for he had outgrown the compass of any one nation, invested with the glory of achievements in which the old bounds of the possible seemed to fall away, stood in 324 the man Alexander.
The territory stood in 1859 as in the annexed table.
On this day his troops stood in the following positions.
As a rule the cells are minute, and this has especially stood in the way of embryological research.
As an authority on the Inquisition he stood in the highest rank of modern historians, and distinctions were conferred on him by the universities of Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Giessen and Moscow.
Hamilton's impracticable policy of keeping Scotland neutral for long stood in the way of Charles's consent.
He would have been more at home in a state of things which did not demand from its leading statesman great popular power; he had none of those " isms " and " prisms of fancy " which stood in such good stead some of his rivals.
As they stood in the Septuagint or Greek canon, along 2 The New Testament shows undoubtedly an acquaintance with several of the apocryphal books.
Two great difficulties stood in the way of steering the country to prosperity.
As a senator he stood in the front rank in a body distinguished for ability; his purity of character and courteous manner, together with his intellectual gifts, won him the esteem of all parties; and he became more and more the leader of the Southern Democrats.
Unfortunately, the Hungarian constitution stood in the way of this political paradise, so Joseph resolved that the Hungarian constitution must be sacrificed.
In the centre of this part of Pretoria is Church Square, so named from the Dutch Reformed Church which stood in it, but was demolished in 1905.
The importance of Crispi in Italian public life depended less upon the many reforms accomplished under his administrations than upon his intense patriotism, remarkable fibre, and capacity for administering to his fellow-countrymen the political tonic of which they stood in constant need.
Galen was a man furnished with all the anatomical, medical and philosophical knowledge of his time; he had studied all kinds of natural curiosities, and had stood in near relation to important political events; he possessed enormous industry, great practical sagacity and unbounded literary fluency.
The so-called iatro-chemical school stood in a much closer relation to practical medicine than the iatrophysical.
The Marble Arch was intended as a monument to Nelson, and first stood in front of Buckingham Palace, being moved to its present site in 1851.
Among the survivals of names of non-ecclesiastical buildings Castle Baynard may be noted; it stood in the City on the banks of the Thames, and was held by Ralph Baynard, a Norman, in the time of William the Conqueror; a later building being erected in 1428 by Humphrey duke of Gloucester.
The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, and from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III.
We have already touched on this characteristic of apocalyptic. The prophet stood in direct relations with his people; his prophecy was first spoken and afterwards written.
It was on Humboldt's advice that he determined to become a teacher of chemistry, but difficulties stood in his way.
The kingdom of Hira was never really independent, but always stood in a relation of dependence on Persia, probably receiving pay from it and employing Persian soldiers.
K They seem to have stood in much the same relation to the rulers of Yemen, as the people of Hira to the Persians and the Ghassanids to Rome.
He stood equally remote from the old Voluntary principle, that " the State had nothing to do with religion," and from the sacerdotal position that the clergy stood in an apostolic succession, and either constituted the Church or were the persons into whose hands its guidance had been committed.
The Churches soon found numbers within their pale who stood in need of supervision, instruction and regular control.
There is no hope of finding the great bronze Athena, which stood in the middle of the agora.
At the same time, his sons were quarrelling about the succession; one of them, Ochus, induced the father by a series of intrigues to condemn to death three of his older brothers, who stood in his way.
And that the censures of admonition and excommunication be in due manner executed, for sinne, convicted, and obstinately stood in.
A fundamental difference as to the doctrine of the eucharist, however, stood in the way of the real union.
The image of the Lar, made of wood, stone or metal, sometimes even of silver, stood in its special shrine (lararium), which in early times was in the atrium, but was afterwards transferred to other parts.
Columns stood in front, whose bases still exist and bear the names of Antoninus Pius and Julia Domna.
All this suggests a close connexion between the Minaeans and Hadramut; and from the Minaean inscriptions we know that the Gebanites were at one time a Minaean race, and stood in high favour with the queen of Ma`in.
Yet from the first the leaders of the two parties stood in avowed opposition, in the Jacobin Club as in the Assembly.
His statue stood in its market-place.
The full development of this view seems to lie between the time of Elijah and that of Amos and Hosea - under the dynasty of Jehu, when prophecy, as represented by Elisha and Jonah, stood in the fullest harmony with the patriotic efforts of the age.
This is in fact the difference between him and Elijah Elisha, the successor of Elijah, stood in much closer relations to the prophetic societies than his great master had done.
The great teocalli of Huitzilopochtli in the city of Mexico stood in an immense square, whence radiated the four principal thoroughfares, its courtyard being enclosed by a square, of which the stone wall, called the coatepantli or serpent-wall from its sculptured serpents, - measured nearly a quarter of a mile on each side.
Bury, of which the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon burhg, birig or byrig (town, castle or fortified place), was the site of a Saxon station, and an old English castle stood in Castle Croft close to the town.
The fleet now stood in to a bay called by the explorers Streamfiord or Firth of Currents, and wintered there (1003-1004), suffering some privations, and apparently getting no more news of the fruitful country desired.
The municipia stood in very different degrees of dependence on Rome.
The existing legal system of all the states, except Louisiana, whose law is based on the Roman, have been built upon the foundation of the principles contained in the common and statute law of England as that law stood in 1776, when the thirteen colonies declared their independence.
The Struggle For Existence, The Conquering Of The Wilderness, Has Left Scant Room For Broad Culture Or Scholarship, And The Very Fact That Canada Is A Colony, However Free To Control Her Own Affairs, Has Stood In The Way Of The Creation Of Anything Like A National Literature.
To collate a manuscript is to observe and record everything in it which may be of use towards determining what stood in the source or the sources from which it is derived.
Careful and continuous regard to the various kinds of errors and defaults that are found in transcription will enable us to judge whether a reading which it is suggested stood in the archetype of our text is likely to have been corrupted to the reading, or readings, which stand in the extant manuscripts or editions.
It is inhabited principally by persons in the employment of the London & North-Western railway company, and was practically created by that corporation, at a point where in 1841 only a farmhouse stood in open country.
The neighbouring building of the grammar school preserves a Norman door from another church, which formerly stood in the same churchyard with St Peter's.
The whole group of buildings stood in an enclosure (tun) surrounded by a stockade (burg), which perhaps rested on an earthwork, though this is disputed.
In Roman times the castle of Citium stood in the region of Klosterneuburg.
These features early suggested Paul as the author of a book which stood in MSS.
Themselves Frenchmen, and surrounded by a College of Cardinals in which the French element predominated, the popes gave to their ecclesiastical administration a certain French character, till they stood in more and more danger of serving purely national interests, in cases where the obligations of their office demanded complete impartiality.
A main cause of the cleavage in Germany was the position of ecclesiastical affairs, which - though by no means hopeless - yet stood in urgent need of emendation, and, combined with this, the deeply resented financial system of the Curia.
Disregarding the wishes of the Great Council, and excluding all the more important of the barons and bishops from office, he acted as his own chief minister and never condescended to justify his policy except when he stood in need of subsidies.
The earliest notice of it is in the Tell el-Amarna tablets, in a letter from the local governor, who then held it for Egypt, with which country it always stood in close connexion.
The earl of Gowrie's palace, built in 1520, stood in spacious grounds near the river and was removed in 1805 to provide room for the county buildings.
The Roman Tingis, which stood in the immediate vicinity of the site of Tangier, was of great antiquity; under Augustus it became a free city, and when Otho placed the western half of Mauretania under a procurator, he called it Mauretania Tingitana after its capital Tingis.
Objects in metal and ivory discovered in the earliest graves prove that as early as the 8th or 7th century B.C. Praeneste had reached a considerable degree of civilization and stood in commercial relations not only with Etruria but with the East.
Nothing but the strong personal influence and indefatigable labours of the prince of Orange stood in the way of a more general defection.
But in 1639-1640 civil discords in England stood in the way of a strong foreign policy, and the adroit Aarssens was able so " to sweeten the bitterness of the pill " as to bring King Charles not merely to " overlook the scandal of the Downs," but to consent to the marriage of the princess had a quasi-independence of its own.
In 1672 the stadholdership in five provinces had been made hereditary in the family of the prince of Orange, but William died childless, and the republican burgher party was strong enough to prevent the posts being filled up. William had wished that his cousin, Count John William Friso of Nassau, stadholder of Friesland and Gron- - ingen, should succeed him, but his extreme youth and the jealousy of Holland against a " Frisian " stood in the way of his election.
In spite of its dismembered condition, and the sufferings it underwent at the hands of its French neighbours in various periods of warfare, the Rhenish territory prospered greatly and stood in the foremost rank of German culture and progress.
No Englishman of that day stood in the same repute abroad, and foreigners, noble or learned, who came to England, never forgot to pay their respects to the old man, whose vigour and freshness of intellect no progress of the years seemed able to quench.
As king of Bohemia Charles was an enlightened and capable ruler, but he was indifferent towards Germany, although this country never stood in more urgent needof a strong and beneficent sovereign.
In 843 the Saracens won the Mamertine city, Messana, and thus stood in the path between Italy and Sicily.
The sovereign hereditary king stood in exactly the same relations to both kingdoms; and 1660.
Naturally, a mutual confidence between a king who had conquered his kingdom and a people who had stood in arms against him was not attainable immediately, and the first six years of Christian III.'s reign were marked by a contest between the Danish Rigsraad and the German counsellors, both of whom sought to rule "the pious king" exclusively.
Prejudice and real or imaginary legal obstacles stood in the way of the erection of episcopal sees in the colonies; and though in the 17th century Archbishop Laud had attempted to obtain a bishop for Virginia, up to the time of the American revolution the churchmen of the colonies had to make the best of the legal fiction that their spiritual needs were looked after by the bishop of London, who occasionally sent commissaries to visit them and ordained candidates for the ministry sent to England for the purpose.
It appears at one time to have been embedded in a brick niche, and about 1891 a shed was placed over it, but in 1907 it stood in the open entirely unprotected.
He never again lost touch with literature as he had done in the years which preceded his friendship with Schiller; but he stood in no active or immediate connexion with the literary movement of his day.
From the first, too, he was hampered by wretched health; at the age of sixteen he was subjected to one of those terrible attacks of neuralgia which were to torment him to the last; physically and mentally alike he stood in tragic contrast with his grandfather, in whose gigantic personality the vigour of his race seems to have been exhausted.
As an advocate, too, he stood in the very highest rank; in mere oratory he was surpassed by Plunket, and in rhetorical gifts by Bushe, the only ' See the account of O'Connell's uncle, Count Daniel O'Connell (1745-1833), to whose property he fell heir, in Mrs O'Connell's Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade (1892), and O'Callaghan's Irish Brigade in the Service of France (1870).
He had stood in the beauteous land - the land of Israel - with destruction in his hand.
Though now pierced by road and railway, they stood in former times as a barrier of mountain and jungle between northern and southern India, and formed one of the main obstructions to welding the whole into an empire.
The salt duty, which stood in 1888 at Rs.
He found expression in so many ways, and was apparently so inexhaustible in his resources, that his very versatility and the ease with which he gave expression to his thought sometimes stood in the way of a recognition of his large, simple political ideality and the singleness of his moral sight.
The upper cadi Ibn abi Da`ud, the leader of the movement against orthodoxy, who had stood in great esteem with Mamun and had fulfilled his high office under the reigns of Motasim and Wathiq, had a stroke of paralysis in the year 848.
The port and fishing privileges of Fusan remained in Japanese possession, a heavy tribute was exacted, and until 1790 the Korean king stood in humiliating relations towards Japan.
There is, however, considerable evidence in support of the view that Greek va representing the sound arising from Ky, xy, Ty, By was pronounced as sh (s), while representing gy, dy was pronounced in some districts zh (z).4 On an inscription of Halicarnassus, a town which stood in ancient Carian territory, the sound of vv in `AXoKapvaao-Ewv is represented by T, as it is also in the Carian name Panyassis (IIavvfiTcos, geni tive), though the ordinary is also found in the same inscription.
High-born, wealthy and accomplished, she was resolved to be Nero's wife, and set herself to remove the obstacles which stood in her way.
On the other hand, Presbyterianism stood in Scottish history for freedom, and for the rights of the middle and lower classes against the crown and the aristocracy; and it might not have been held with such tenacity or proved so incapable of compromise but for the opposition and persecution of the three Stuart kings.
In that year it reached a maximum of 18,031,957 tons; it then fell off to 13,098,341 tons in 1887, rose in the two years following to nearly 15,000,000, fell to little over 11,000,000 in 1892-1893, rose fairly steadily to 14,461,330 in 1899, stood in 1900 at 14,028,208 tons of a value of £4224,400, and then showed a further fall and rise, until in 1905 the tonnage was 14,590,703, and the value £ 3,482,184.
The ancient town of Khulm stood in the Oxus plain, surrounded by orchards of famous productiveness; but it was destroyed by Ahmad Shah Abdali, who founded Tashkurghan in the middle of the 18th century, and took all the inhabitants away from Khulm to populate it.
Next year the conquering Kajar returned to Shirz to make an end of the only rival who now stood in his way.
At the French court he stood in high favour with the comte d'Artois.
Hence the contrast between his attitude from 1876 to 1886, during the reign of Alphonso XII., when he stood in the front rank of the Opposition to defend the reforms of that revolution against Senor Canovas, and his attitude from 1886 to 1891.
To the orthodox theology of Greece and Rome the system stood in a twofold relation, as criticism and rationalism.
The next reign, that of his son Recared (586-601), was marked by a change which took away the great hindrance which had thus far stood in the way of any national union between Goths and Romans.
The then king of Seville, Motadhid, one of the small princes who had divided the caliphate of Cordova, was himself a sceptic and poisoner, but he stood in wholesome awe of the power of the x.
He had every claim to the highest preferment that ministers could give him, but his own pride and prejudice in high places stood in his way.
On several occasions he stood in opposition to Mirabeau.
The example thus set could not fail to react upon the Rumanians in Walachia, with whom the Transylvanians stood in close commercial and political connexion.
Therein appeared Polyeucte, the memorable comedy of Le Menteur, which though adapted from the Spanish stood in relation to French comedy very much as Le Cid, which owed less to Spain, stood to French tragedy; its less popular and far less good Suite, - and perhaps La Mort de Pompee.
Lord Acton has left too little completed original work to rank among the great historians; his very learning seems to have stood in his way; he knew too much and his literary conscience was too acute for him to write easily, and his copiousness of information overloads his literary style.
Edward IV., as has been already remarked, had many of the opportunities of the autocrat, if only he had cared to use them; Personal but his sloth and self-indulgence stood in the way.
But the alliance stood in the way of a Franco-Spanish agreement, limited Elizabeths sympathy with the French Protestants, and enabled her to give more countenance than she otherwise might have done to the Dutch.
As an orator Senator Evarts stood in the foremost rank, and some of his best speeches were published.
It stood in a more retired position, and was conveniently situated for excursions into the country and hunting expeditions.
He was "thought of" for various boroughs, Marylebone among the number, but his democratic Toryism seems to have stood in his way in some places and his inborn dislike of Radicalism in others.
At the Berlin conference he had established a formidable reputation; the popularity he enjoyed at home was affectionately enthusiastic; no minister had ever stood in more cordial relations with his sovereign; and his honours in every kind were his own achievement against unending disadvantage.
Near Orchomenus her wooden image stood in a large cedar-tree - an indication that her worship was originally that of the tree itself (KESpeEins, " the cedar goddess"); at Caryae there was an image of Artemis Kapvarts (" the nut-tree goddess").
As a publicist he stood in the forefront of reform.
It includes, besides the works already noticed, numerous sermons, letters and miscellaneous writings; and also The Temple, especially as it stood in the Days of our Saviour (London, 1650).
The regular clergy were fashionable and attracted the money of the pious rich, until their wealth stood in scandalous contrast with the poverty of the secular clergy.
Howie stood in front of his modest hotel waiting for us.
To her relief, the Black God stood in the center of the storm's eye, bathed in sunlight that touched nothing else.
The shockwaves faded, and she stood in the middle of an intersection, stretching out with her Guardian senses to find some kind of life.
His master's friend, the man with eyes as green as the moss in the corner of Two's room, stood in his doorway.
She stepped off the ferry and stood in a mostly empty parking lot, wondering how the hell to get to civilization from there.
She stood in the middle of the chamber, quaking and praying he wasn.t the sadistic bastard Sasha was.
Even though she stood in Death.s realm with a slim chance of ever seeing the blue sky again, her life had never seemed so clear to her.
He stood in the confined main deck of the transport craft after his own craft had been disabled in an ambush.
He stood in the middle with a suit hanger in his hand, and turned to her with a pained expression.
Katie awaited him in his dreams, looking as she had the day he lost her. They stood in the spot where he'd fought his friend, Gabriel, and the demon lord, Darkyn. She wore a sweater that made her light eyes glow.
Fred O'Connor stood in the center of the room, the phone in his hand, with Dolly Parton crooning from the stereo.
The scent of lilacs filled the air and in the woods, white dogwood stood in stark contrast against the multi shades of green wakening to spring.
When he opened them, he stood in the cold cave where the Watchers entered the world.
The retable is only part of a much larger altarpiece that probably once stood in the Priory at Thetford in Norfolk.
It stood in a naturally defensive location on the shoulder of a steep slope overlooking a crossing point of the River Lune.
They stood in the middle of the bare floorboards, sipping coffee from chunky pottery mugs.
We stood in our plastic macs looking at a single wall set in the middle of a wet Shropshire field.
With my carefully manicured lesson plan in hand, I stood in front of a sea of pupils, all demanding my attention NOW!
A stone once stood in the center of the circle, but it is now also missing.
A tall man stood in a narrow passage leading down to the city.
Most old postcards of Broad Street show this cabmen's shelter, which stood in the middle of the street from 1885 to 1912.
Throughout his life in Medina, he was more than willing to conquer any tribe or city that stood in his way.
The religious capital of Britain, Canterbury stood in the central stage of an often turbulent history.
At Edgehill he had observed the inferiority of the parliamentary to the royalist horse, could not rally afterwards, "whereas Cromwell's troops if they prevailed, or though they were beaten and routed, presently rallied again and stood in good order till they received new orders"; and the king's military successes dwindled in proportion to the gradual preponderance of Cromwell's troops in the parliamentary army.
Army Reform, therefore, has been very much in the forefront of late years owing to the estrangement of Austria (whith power can mobilize much more ranidlv) himt finsy,cisl difficulties have hitherto stood in the way of any radical and far-reaching reforms, and even the proposals of the Commission of 1907, referred to below, have only been partially accepted.
For the moment Germany was to hold aloof lest any active initiative on her part should displease the Vatican, of whose help Bismarck stood in need.
The ruin-field of Gortyna still evokes something of the importance that it possessed in Imperial days, and at Lebena on the south coast are remains of a temple of Aesculapius and its dependencies which stood in connexion with this city.
The Orient was, indeed, ever the magnet which attracted him most; and his hostility to England may be attributed to his perception that she alone stood in the way of his most cherished schemes.
Strabo tells us that this stood in the west of the city; and recent discoveries go far to place it near "Pompey's Pillar" (see above), which, however, was an independent monument erected to commemorate Diocletian's siege of the city.
The curious poem De Imagine Tetrici takes the form of a dialogue; it was inspired by an equestrian statue of Theodoric the Great which stood in front of Charlemagne's palace at Aix-la-Chapelle.
When Christian scholars began to study the Old Testament in Hebrew, if they were ignorant of this general rule or regarded the substitution as a piece of Jewish superstition, reading what actually stood in the text, they would inevitably pronounce the name Jehovah.
This station, which was built in 1883-1888 and has replaced the three stations belonging to private companies, which formerly stood in juxtaposition on the Anlagen (or promenades) near the Mainzer Tor, lies some half-mile to the west.
This ruthlessness towards their own citizens, who were arraigned before military courts in trials for high treason, stood in curious contrast to the considerate treatment of " enemy aliens," who were comparatively little molested.
The sublime and solitary figure of Elijah, whom we are apt to take as the typical figure of a prophet in the old kingdom, has little in common with the picture even of the true prophet which we derive from I Kings xxii.; and when his history is carefully and critically read it is found to give no reason to think that he stood in any close relation to the prophetic societies of his time.
With tears in her eyes she went out and stood in the whisperer's place.
He took his stand on the forward deck, while the robber sailors stood in a half circle before him, anxious to listen to his song.
After the death of Gracchus, a conservative government under Sulla withdrew the subsidy, but shortly afterward, in a period of great unrest, restored it, and two hundred thousand persons stood in line.
One day, Miss Sullivan tells me, I pinned the word girl on my pinafore and stood in the wardrobe.
You can never imagine how I felt when I stood in the presence of Niagara until you have the same mysterious sensations yourself.
I stood in the middle of the church, where the vibrations from the great organ were strongest, and I felt the mighty waves of sound beat against me, as the great billows beat against a little ship at sea.
She kept one hand on the singer's mouth, while the other rested on the piano, and she stood in this position as long as any one would sing to her, and afterward she would make a continuous sound which she called singing.
I rarely have dreams that are not in keeping with what I really think and feel, but one night my very nature seemed to change, and I stood in the eye of the world a mighty man and a terrible.
It looked as if this was the way these forms came to be transferred to our furniture, to tables, chairs, and bedsteads--because they once stood in their midst.
Fellow-travellers as they rattled by compared it aloud with the fields which they had passed, so that I came to know how I stood in the agricultural world.
Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal.
Then the hunter came forward and stood in their midst, and the mystery was solved.
He declared that "a soldier who fights in the ranks does not require half so much courage as a footpad"--"that honor and religion have never stood in the way of a well-considered and a firm resolve."
Prince Hippolyte laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte whom he had promised to take home.
A regular eagle he is! loudly remarked the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways.
Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly immobile for a few moments.
But they all stood in the same lines, under one command, and in a like order.
When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kirsten filled others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the soldiers' bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm.
I don't care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I'd throttle if they stood in my way.
The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, the bridges were strong and had handrails.
Charming! cried Natasha, as she stood in the middle of the room smoothing out the folds of the gauze.
Nicholas, in his old lady's dress over which he had belted his hussar overcoat, stood in the middle of the sleigh, reins in hand.
Marya Dmitrievna, with her spectacles hanging down on her nose and her head flung back, stood in the hall doorway looking with a stern, grim face at the new arrivals.
Pierre took the letter Anatole handed him and, pushing aside a table that stood in his way, threw himself on the sofa.
The Emperor was not dancing, he stood in the doorway, stopping now one pair and now another with gracious words which he alone knew how to utter.
Four days before, sentinels of the Preobrazhensk regiment had stood in front of the house to which Balashev was conducted, and now two French grenadiers stood there in blue uniforms unfastened in front and with shaggy caps on their heads, and an escort of hussars and uhlans and a brilliant suite of aides-de-camp, pages, and generals, who were waiting for Napoleon to come out, were standing at the porch, round his saddle horse and his Mameluke, Rustan.
For some time he stood in silence considering whether he should follow him or go away.
The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semenovsk village and its knoll, and their guns boomed incessantly along their line and sent forth clouds of smoke.
The young man in the fur-lined coat, stooping a little, stood in a submissive attitude, his fingers clasped before him.
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines.
He stood in front of the fire, sodden clothes steaming.
We had n't seen them since, so we stood in the pouring rain for about fifteen minutes, swopping stories.
We stood in silence for a few moments absorbing the total tranquility of the place then moved back into the crypt again.
For over a hundred years, from 1857 up until 1979 a waxwork figure of Palmer stood in their famous Chamber of Horrors.
As they approached the top of the mountain, Jack and Julie stood in awe because of the formidable view below.
No doubt you've seen a few yourself, and it's possible you've stood in the aisle for a few minutes trying to decide between one or two (or three).
Bobby Brown, however, stood in front of the velvet rope like an eager 12 year old hoping to get chosen at a b-ball pick-up game.
A boulevard (Carthay Circle), similar to Disneyland's Main Street USA, that leads to a rendition of the Carthay Circle Theatre that originally stood in Los Angeles.
In similar regard, you can train yourself to run faster, jump over walls that stood in your way at first, and yes, you can even "gat bitches" with a heavier vengeance than ever before.
You stood in one spot and tried to shoot the ducks who would fly by on your screen.
Curved and bowed glass china cabinets stood in Victorian dining rooms and living rooms, each proudly displaying the family's precious possessions.
Their appeal was widespread as people stood in line to "adopt" a new doll.
You may have read the books dozens of times and stood in line to see the movie for more than 12 hours, but how much do you really know about Twilight?
If you've ever stood in line at the grocery store, you've seen the various magazines that feature articles about movie stars and soap opera actors and actresses.
This was not to be, though, as once again writers made good use of the actors who had previously stood in the background.
According to the ancient Roman legend, brothers Romulus and Remus stood in Rome and decided to found a city.
The sound and attitude of the music stood in stark contrast to the musical styles that dominated the charts at that time (think Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones, and Boston).