Which preposition to use with benches
We found a bench in the shade, and sat there very happy, W. smoking and wondering what the next turn of the wheel would bring us.
Around the campfire were benches of hewn slabs, and a table of the same material.
" They rested on a bench on one of those small triangles of breathing space which the city ekes out now and then; mill ends of land parcels.
Nicholas and all the rest who shared the bench at night, and the fire in the morning, seemed desperately depressed and glum.
After the syllabub there was the garden to see, and a most beautiful garden it was;long and narrow, a straight gravel walk down the middle of it, at the end of the gravel walk there was a green arbour with a bench under it.
He would sit on the bench with the little children and listen to Mary tell about the Saviour who loves all people.
And then, when the man told her she was indeed too late, all strength and energy left her, and she sank sobbing on the wooden bench by the door.
He lifted her up on the bench beside him and gave her a handful of shavings to play with.
In front of the hut a space has been cleared and levelled, flanked on one side by mats for the Bhandari musicians, singers, drummers and cymbal-players, and on the other by four or five chairs and a few wooden benches for the initiates in the mysteries; and to the stems of several neighbouring trees lamps have been affixed about five feet from the ground, which cast weird shadows across the threshold of the goddess's home.
He was at work at a carpenter's bench near the mill.
From the top of the benches to the ceiling the walls are glass to ensure daylight in every corner, and by night the system of indirect lighting gives such perfectly diffused light that not a heavy shadow falls anywhere.
The Sheriff sat within, feasting merrily of the best the place afforded, and the Sheriff's men sat upon the bench before the door, quaffing ale, or lay beneath the shade of the broad-spreading oak trees, talking and jesting and laughing.
"Must of been goin' some to-day," meditated the man who was once more on his bench outside the door.
She entered the patio with two young tourists, whom she sent off, and beckoned Cartwright to a bench behind a palm.
'Mother,' said a little child of four or five years of age, one evening when the summer air was warm, and the skies were bright above, as she sat beside her mother, on a bench beneath the spreading branches of the tall old elms in front of the house; 'mother, what makes the stars come out, only after the dark has come down, and why don't the moon go up into the sky like the sun in the day time?'
[The Head rises upon a twisted Post, on a Bench from under the Stage.
After that"he turned to Dick and Sam"well, your blood will be on your own heads if you disturb this fence or the benches around the flagstaff.
From early dawn all the chairs and benches along the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne are crowded with people waiting patiently for hours to see the show.
" Johnnie sat on the bench against the wall where newcomers applying for positions were placed.
The Bench as before.
Marcel was aware that in the episcopal Palace the village Curés are treated with less regard than the dogs in the back-yard; therefore he took his own part, and he had just sat down on a bench without saying a word, deliberating with himself whether be ought to wait or to go away, when a little priest with a busy and important air, with spectacles on his nose and a pen behind his ear, quickly crossed the anteroom.
They respected her wishes and built her into the foundations; and since then women who suffer from the back-ache have only to come and sit on the bench above the well to be cured.
And what I saw convinced me that I should be a lot easier in my mind with a stout rustic bench between us.
Oliver sat on a wooden bench across the table from Richard.
So crowded is the school that in fine weather the children sit on benches out of doors.