98 Verbs to Use for the Word benches

" The crier made due proclamation, the spectators began to crowd out of the room, the judge left the bench, and the lawyers gathered up their papers.

It comes under the general head of statics and is this: by occupying an invariable bench in Our Square, looking venerable and contemplative and indigenous, as if you had grown up in that selfsame spot, you will draw people to come to you for information, and they will frequently give more than they get of it.

So powerful, indeed, was the impetus they received, that the pasha's galley, which was considerably the larger and loftier of the two, was thrown so far upon its opponent that the prow reached the fourth bench of rowers.

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.

More radiant than ever she looked, glowing softly in the brave November sun, as she approached my bench.

In one corner stood a wooden shed containing a carpenter's bench, a chest for bats and stumps, and various other things belonging to different boys.

He took his accustomed bench in the screen-room, and bent to his task in the old way; but not with the old, light heart and willing fingers.

Immediately within the door there stood a bench planted with cosmos and drinking cups.

Nicholas and all the rest who shared the bench at night, and the fire in the morning, seemed desperately depressed and glum.

Round this chamber ran a wide stone bench, with a richly-carved back of the same material, on which the masquers were seated, and opposite the entrance was a raised seat, ordinarily allotted to the dean, but now occupied by the Earl of Rochester.

In view of these facts, the public have reason to be thankful to Justice DOWLING for the reproof administered by him, a few days since, to a policeman who made use of slang in addressing the bench.

" Andy drew up the bench and handed Luke fully three-quarters of the toothsome dainty.

Most good sports hotels now provide a bench with an electric iron in a special heated and lighted room where the Ski-runner can work happily after tea, or on a snowy day.

As they were passing the rustic bench under the tree where Mrs. Smith and her niece were sitting, Tilly took a sudden resolution, and, stopping abruptly, said, "We're going to have a game of tennis; won't you join us, MissMiss Smith?

Ask anybody you meet, who is the biggest woman in Cambridge, and I 'll hold you a wager they'll say Mrs. Smith; she broke down two benches in Trinity Gardens,one on the confines of St. John's, which occasioned a litigation between the Societies as to repairing it.

There, on the first day, a gladiatorial combat and slaughter of beasts took place; this was done by building a structure of planks over the lake that faced the images and placing benches round about it.

He selected a bench apart from the others, where the wall jutted out from the walk, and seating himself, idled there as if merely watching the river.

On advancing a pace or two within the apartment, he took off his hat, bowed respectfully to the judges, and proceeding onwards, finally ascended the bench and took his seat beside them.

"Come, love, sit a moment with me, here," pleaded Gray, indicating a small bench hidden among the evergreens and shrubs at the end of the path.

This brought again into view the bench he had just left, whereupon he, in turn, cried out, and, dashing through all obstructions, rushed back to it, lifting his ugly staff as he went and flourishing it in the face of Palmyre Philosophe.

The woods were fresh and dewy, dark and cool, and for a long time we climbed bench after bench where the grass and ferns and moss made a thick, deep cover.

They stopped the procession, and, tearing up the benches, with the doors and tables, heaped them into a pile, and burned the corpse there.

With a furious oath he threw himself forward with such a powerful movement that he nearly lifted the bench.

Gladstone says of him: "Whenever he arose to speak it was a summons like a trumpet call to fill the benches.

The older he grew the shorter became his charges; nor were there wanting those who declared that his conduct in this respect was intended as a reproach to some who are desirous of adorning the bench by their eloquence.

98 Verbs to Use for the Word  benches