I'll go in 'ere for 'arf a minnit and sit down.

"I s'pose we shall 'ave to 'ave something," he ses in a whisper to Sam; "we can't expect to come in and sit down for nothing.

He just nodded at 'im; but 'e looked so 'appy that Sam felt it was a pleasure to sit there and look at 'im.

arter fetching another chair from the kitchen, asked 'im to sit down.

" 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.

The fearful disease was abating in our family, and "Old Harper," as she is called in the Fort, offered to sit up and attend to the fire.

He was utterly unfitted for the former, being too gay a spirit to sit down and calculate chances.

it was dreadful,' said Sydney; 'I found I could do nothing for it but take off my flesh and sit in my bones.'

Praetextatus, a robed gentleman in Plutarch, would not sit down at a feast, because he might not sit highest, but went his ways all in a chafe.

I should not like him to sit on my letter.

At the end of these words he bade him come up the inclined plane built for this very purpose in front of the rostra, and Tiridates having been made to sit beneath his feet he placed the diadem upon his head.

She made him sit down on a couch of deerskins, that he might rest his tired limbs.

He then ushered them into a very decent room, where his wife was sitting at a table; she immediately rose up, and assisted them in setting forth chairs, and desired them to sit down.

At four o'clock in the afternoon my illustrious chief used to depart, and I would then steal into his room and sit down before Urania and dream of lovelier worlds than ours, hidden in the infinite spaces of the starry sky.

Sometimes my friend and companion in studies, Georges Spero, would come and sit beside me; and, inspired by the immortal beauty of Urania, we would let our young and ardent imaginations play over the glories and wonders of the heavens.

In a very few years they would sit under a roof-tree bared of fruit and blossom, and sad with falling leaves.

They had dreamed their dream, and there is only one such dream for a lifetime; now they must sit and listen to the dreams of their children, help them to build theirs.

But we can do nothing but sit at home and wait, darn their socks, and clap our hands at their successes.

He had so far progressed in his ambitions as to have arrived at the dignity of a garret of his own, and he liked to pretend that soon he might be romantically fortunate enough to sit face to face with starvation.

It used to bore him terribly when he'd have to sit in the room and talk to Sis and Gerald.

Sit down immediately and write the letter and I 'll mail it first thing in the morning, so he 'll get it before he has time to make other arrangements.

" She released his hand and made him sit again.

If our Supreme Courts are not held, and if Congress does not sit on that day, it is custom, and not law, that makes it so.

We get the victory over it by refusing those institutions and practices which he sets forth as evidence of his power to sit supreme in the temple of God, and by adopting which we should acknowledge the validity of his title, by conceding his right to act for the church in behalf of the Son of God.

Because our grandfather's idea of perfect happiness was to sit before the fire of logs, we are satisfied with the semblance in the form of the asbestos-covered gas-log.

Oh, fie upon the wicked sons of Dhritarashtra!'" Vaisampayana continued, "Saying this, the weeping king sat himself down upon the ground.

It might help to warm ye, if ye sat be the fire up-stairs.

" The youth was so deeply interested in the question that he brought his chair beside the window and sat down to await results.

They sat apart, after taking a drink in the bar-room, and with scowling but interested looks listened to the chatter going on around them.

This was the grave question which the two boys sat down to answer in the gloom of a wintry evening, when they were about fourteen years of age.

The hour grew late, but they sat a long time talking of what they would do when they made their home in the great metropolis.

They sat up late again talking over their grand scheme of seeking their fortune, and even after they retired the hum of their conversation continued until far into the night.

The supper finished, the boys sat in the hot room until Tom's clothing was fully dried, during which process the two were urged to drink fully a score of times, Tom being assured by several that the only way to escape a dangerous cold was to swallow a good supply of gin.

When Tom timidly introduced his errand to an old gentleman in spectacles, as he sat at his desk in a large shipping-office, the old fellow exclaimed in an awed voice, "Great Heavens, no!

Chapter X. Tom's anxiety for his comrade drove all thought of sleep from his eyes for the time; and he sat long in the hot, smoky air of the room down-stairs, in the hope that Jim would come.

" "What do you mean?" Patsey carefully closed and bolted the door behind him, and sat down on the edge of the bed, speaking in a low, guarded voice.

As may well be imagined, Tom Gordon was not likely to fall asleep again that night, so, having fully dressed himself, he sat down on the edge of the bed to wait and watch.

[Illustration: It was a fierce drive.] As there was nothing for him to do, the train being in the hands of another newsboy, he sat down in the smoking-car, which was only moderately filled.

As he sat down again in the chair, he heard feet on the deck, and he concluded that his master had come back to see whether all was right.

" He sat still in the cabin, which was lit by a lamp suspended overhead, and which soon became so warm from the stove and confined air, that he did what he could to cool off the interior.

As both came on deck, the white man signified to the lad that he was to follow him into the cabin, where the door was shut, and they sat down facing each other.

While this was going on, Tom Gordon sat in a chair a few feet away, looking on as though he felt little interest in the matter.

Strolling over the boat to see whether there were any acquaintances among his fellow-travelers, he found none, and, having nothing better to do, sat down on a camp-stool on the forward deck to view the picturesque scenery, which, however, had become so familiar that he fell to studying human nature as it appeared immediately around him.

The doors were fastened, and the two sat alone in the private office, the expression on the faces of both showing that some grave matter weighed upon them.

The Aeolian harp of the heart does not always discourse battle music, and on this night it was as if an old sad minstrel sat before me and played unendingly one plaint, the story of a lost throne, of a lost family, lost children, a lost world.

The whole wild mountainous Crimean shore sat before the sea and dreamed.

I sat bolt upright and looked about me, and even then, whilst I stared, the cry came again, and from the sea.

I I imagine that whilst the prodigal son sat at meat with his father and their guests, there may have come to the door a weary tramp begging food and lodging.

[Footnote 52: Juvenal, "Sat."

At the servants' table, besides the waiters and other attendants on the principal board, mentioned by Harrison, sat the master-cook, the pantler, the steward or major-domo, the butler, the cellarman, the waferer, and others.