Word: stood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miss Digge certainly did look sober, as she stood there in her "old gold" velvet dress, cut bias, and shirred all round, leaning against a bookcase just as she had seen Modjeska lean...
...white birch-tree stood silently, pale as a startled ghost...
There in the glow of the firelight stood lonely, waiting...
...last "Annual Report" the list of men who obtained Commencement parts in '78 is printed in such a way as to produce a misunderstanding. First come the orations in inverted order, the man who stood fourth coming first, and vice versa; then come dissertations, and then disquisitions, with the same order. Any one would surely suppose that, as the oration is the highest part, the first of those who had orations would come first; or else, if the men are printed in 4, 3, 2, 1 order, that the lowest part should be printed first. We hope this blunder will...
...stood there gazing long...