He evidently understood, and tried to raise himself, nearly reaching to a sitting position, but falling back from sheer weakness, and gazing shrinkingly at us as if expecting a blow.
But as no blow came he spoke to the boy, who at once took his hands and pulled him into a sitting position, but the man could do no more, and uttered a low groan in his abject weakness as he gazed up in his eyes.
A rope of palmyra fibre was brought, and the women then proceeded to swathe it round with the cord, giving the body a sitting position.
We have known worse moments together, Isabel," remarked Hughes, who had raised himself from his elbow to a sitting position, and was gazing intently over the waves.
Sit up, you swab," roared the boatswain; and Pan started into a sitting position on the instant.
He held out the piece, and the girl caught it in her hand, while Pen drew his companion into a sitting position, stooped down, and turned his back to the bed.
To my surprise and horror the bullet struck one of my comrades (who was in a sitting position) in the centre of his steel helmet, creating a huge dent.
The prisoner, who had again thrown himself upon the floor, shot up into a sitting position as if he had been struck, and sat there staring at the figure beside him, as if unable to believe his ears.
It was with a start, therefore, and with an involuntary clutch at the rifle which lay beside him, that he suddenly raised himself into a sitting position, to find Ali Kumar beside him.
As the little girl played she prattled continuously to her companion, propped in a sitting position with a couple of twigs.
The black moved forward and lifted him to a sitting position.
At last the bull took a few steps forward, and I wriggled myself into a sitting position, gave him both barrels, one after the other, and after running about sixty yards he fell over dead.
To do this I worked my legs towards the rhino as I lay on my side, and gradually raised myself into a sitting position, but at that instant the birds saw me, and flew up with their usual cry of alarm.
Mike leaped to his feet in horror, and Vince pulled himself up in a sitting position, to stare wonderingly at the old fellow, who had come silently up over the yielding turf.
This was enough: Mike turned furiously upon Vince and struck him, sending him staggering backward over the thick sand; and, unable to keep his balance, the lad came down in a sitting position.
Here," said Mike, rising into a sitting position on a little bank of coarse sand, which was composed entirely of broken shells.
With a groan Susan lifted herself to a sitting position, drew the spread about her--a gesture of instinct rather than of conscious modesty.
Thought it was a man," mumbled he, dragging her to a sitting position.
When she came back where he could see the whiskey in the glass, his eyes glistened and he raised himself first on his elbow, then to a sitting position.
He abruptly but without shock lifted her to a sitting position.
Pete awoke as if by instinct, and started into a sitting position, to stare hard at his companion.
For there was a sharp, angry oath, a quick start, and the overseer, who had been sleeping upon a rough couch, rose to a sitting position.
As I was helped to a sitting position, my mom looked on in unconcealed surprise, thinking that I would certainly cry out in pain.
Tharn raised the weapon, hilt between thumb and bent forefinger, and, while still in a sitting position, flung it with all the concentrated strength of his powerful arm point foremost at the on-rushing bulk.
Gorlat had staggered back to sink into a sitting position on an empty bench.
Placing Alurna in a sitting position here, her back against the tree's bole, he tore free a length of stout vine and bound her wrists securely behind her back.
He halted and placed her in a sitting position on a strong branch, then sat down beside her.
Fede crumpled back into the office's wall, slid down it into a sitting position.
I start to ease myself to a sitting position, and my back gives way, so that I crash to the rooftop, mewling, hands clutched to my spasming lumbar.
My old friends, the sacroiliac joints, feel as tight as drumheads, and they creak ominously when I shift to a sitting position with my back propped up on the chimney's upended butt, the aluminum skirting cool as a kiss on my skin.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sitting position" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
