118 Verbs to Use for the Word stands

After a while, he got tired of dashin' back and forth, under the log, and took a stand two or three rods off, and as he eyed us, shook his great horns and stamped with his big hoofs, as much as to say, 'very well, gentlemen, I can wait, don't hurry yourselves, take your time; but I shall stay here as long as you stay up there.

When the circus had gone and life was drab, he was our tutor in the art of turning cart-wheels and making hand-stands against the door.

"That will do," Goldberger broke in, and Godfrey left the stand.

Sitting there together, they saw the last stand made by the ice, and shared that moment when the final barrier, somewhere far below, gave way with boom and thunder.

Wilbur says it will never go, because they only got block stands, and an agent ain't got no show without at least one kind of a litho.

It is got into a moral world where it has no business; from which it must needs fall head-long; as dizzy and incapable of keeping its stand, as a Swedenborgian bad spirit that has wandered unawares within the sphere of one of his good men or angels.

"Be ready for the command 'eyes right' or 'eyes left' when we pass the 'reviewing stand'," Grimm told the platoon commanders just as the parade started.

In the square outside the Consulate a squad from the flagship were setting up a temporary band-stand, where the ship's band was to play when evening fell, while Hutcheson, perspiring in his uniform, drove with the Admiral to make the calls of courtesy upon the authorities which international etiquette demanded.

"How!" cried Walkyn fiercely, "d'ye dare bid Walkyn stand, thou dog's meat?

When Little John reached the stand he found none fighting, but only bold Eric walking up and down the platform, swinging his staff and shouting lustily, "Now, who will come and strike a stroke for the lass he loves the best, with a good Lincolnshire yeoman?

In addition he seized 450 stands of arms, 145,000 rounds of ammunition, and ten thousand dollars in silver coin.

The following is an extract:'Four days ago, as some planters were digging under ground, they found a square room containing eleven thousand stand of arms and fifteen thousand cartridges, each of the cartridges containing a bullet.'

When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous crowd filled the stands.

Remember Joe Claiborne promised us a real stage-job, and we opened a lemonade-stand on our front gate to pay his commission in advance?

When the Novem Goem first hit the stands in 1980, many naturally had great expectations that it would serve as a people's paper.

For always before singing I carefully choose my stand.

what had that aged fisherman done that thy hand should seek his life?" "Antonio!" echoed the monk; "dost thou stand charged with his death, my son?"

The ground is dug knee deep, and forms a soft, good holding stand.

She gave him a wooden stand on which to sit while eating, and water in which to wash his feet, and then said, "Papa, papa, there is pudding to eat, there is water to drink."

Let's take them seventy-five bucks and buy us a peanut-stand or a line of goods.

Virgil here lets his Fable stand still for the-sake of the following Remark.

I wouldn't 'a' cared, only I's afeared I'd lose this stand.

Her players were twice piled up against the Harwell center, and she was at last forced to send a blue-clad youth around the left end, an experiment which netted her twelve yards and which brought the east stand to its feet, yelling like mad.

The butler stepped forward, mounted the witness-stand, and bowed his head deferentially towards the judge.

To James, at Stirling, let us go, When, if thou wilt be still his foe, Or if the King shall not agree To grant thee grace and favour free, I plight mine honour, oath, and word, That, to thy native strengths restored, With each advantage shalt thou stand, That aids thee now to guard thy land.

118 Verbs to Use for the Word  stands