" Mrs. Burtenshaw shut the door arter 'im, and then she went in and 'ad a quiet sit-down all by 'erself to think it over.

We were always up and down on top of the swells, and our bodies ached so terribly from the sitting-down position and from the joggling of the motion that we would cry with pain.

"It's 'bridge' for money or expensive prizes; and compared to the excitement it causes, the tarantella is a sitting-down dance.

I remember that the "sit-down" suppers at the Austrian Embassya separate little table for every two, three, or four guestswere remarked on as a novelty (and applauded) by the Parisians.