In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League season, the grand stand of the New York National League club burned to the ground.

Her moral and religious principles were known by the firm stand she took against common incentives to dissipation and irreligionsuch as card-playing and Sunday entertainmentsagainst the introduction of questionable topics, unseemly language, and vacuous frivolity into conversation.

The floor was painted and highly varnished, and flower-pots were at the numerous windows on little stands.

They were forced back to the Oureq river, then to the Vesle, where they made a determined stand.

He kept him at some good public school in Pennsylvania till fitted for college, then sent him to Dartmouth where he remained four years and graduated, maintaining always a very respectable standing, socially, and in his class.

From the region of Le Cateau and St. Quentin the German advance was by Noyon to Compiegne (famous for its memories of Joan of Arc's famous sortie), at which point the Allies made a desperate stand and the Germans had to fight for every inch of ground.

Until recently there were two wooden gas stands at the sides of the reading desk.

As a matter of fact when the crew ultimately mutinied, the captain and a lieutenant were severely wounded; but I can find no evidence for the picturesque legend of a group of officers making a last heroic stand on the quarter-deck, and ruthlessly mowed down by the insurgents' fire.

"Every war hospital must receive them," she explained, "and we are glad we are not passed over, for that gives the stamp to our official standing.

The kitten stand.

And as the law, like any other profession requires jacks-of-all-trades, the firm acquired a certain peculiar professional standing of its own, and enjoyed the good will of the bar as a whole.

At once they took a decided stand.

He passed on to the end of the room, and came to a sudden stand before the window.

The enemy's cavalry made a bold stand, the foot relieving each other, and making a general halt, to assist their horse against ours.

Don't forgit dat!" Joe and his guide took a jitney to the nearest public hack stand, where a number of automobiles were waiting, and Joe entered one of these with Micky.

[on Jersey], but Lord Seaforth's new-raised regiment of 700 Highlanders, assisted by some militia and some artillery, made a brave stand and repelled the intruders.' 'One of the men advised her, with the cunning that clowns never can be without, to ask more; but she said that a shilling was enough.

There are many persons of doubtful social standing, who seek to make upto bridge that narrow and unfathomable gulfby affability.

"After a few months, however, our relative standing was the same here as it had been at the school.

Upon the east of the town there is very little standing until we come to the southern corner, where God's House Tower and the South-East Gate remain.

The latter was sneering and supercilious: Blackwood was vulgarly taunting and insulting, and seems to have provoked Keats the more of the two, though perhaps he considered the attack in the Quarterly to be more detrimental to his literary standing.

An examination may sometimes be omitted when any competent Brother present will vouch for the visitor's masonic standing and qualifications.

We entered the Chapel and I locked the door behind us, after which we carted the armored dummy up the aisle to the gate of the chancel rail where we put it down upon its round, wooden stand.

Opening the door upon the Hassiebrock front room, convertible from bed- to sitting-room by the mere erect-position-stand of the folding-bed, a wave of this tarry heat came flowing out, gaseous, sickening.

Some families of words, however, are of inferior social standing to other families, and may seek but not hope to be sought in marriage.

The train of her recollections came to a sudden halt, before a tall cheval-glass standing at an obtuse angle to the fireplace and on the edge of its broad hearthrug.