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Example sentences for "stood beside"

  • She thanked him prettily in Spanish, and he stood beside her, his dark face in a dull glow from pleasure.

  • Seeing my reverie broken, he strode noiselessly across the room and stood beside me at the fire.

  • I am so glad you've come, Amey," she said looking up at me where I stood beside her.

  • Even as I gaped a white figure was framed in the doorway, paused a moment on the low stone step, and then came on until it stood beside me.

  • Mr. Flint was seated on a bench, his hands clasped across his stick, and as she came softly over the carpet of the needles he did not hear her until she stood beside him.

  • She gave no further sign of her knowledge of his presence until he stood beside her--and then she looked up at him.

  • It’s going to be a pretty close shave,” I remarked, as I stood beside Tom, who had given the wheel to the boy.

  • She had thrown aside her hat, and a loosened tress of her hair flew lightly across my face as I stood beside her.

  • Dorothy, who had crossed the street and stood beside us, broke in.

  • He stood beside him, and address'd him thus: "Up, son of AEsculapius!

  • He had expected to climb this fence, and as he stood beside it speaking a few parting words to Ezra he absently thrust his gun between two of the lower rails, not noticing that the lock was sprung.

  • No sooner was he gone than the little figure slipped noiselessly from its perch, and hobbling quickly to the chair on which the violin lay, stood beside it in silent love.

  • My lord, swinging the cutlass with which he was armed, stood beside me, knee to knee, and Diccon cursed after me, making quarterstaff play with his long pike.

  • The minister and Diccon moved nearer to me, and the King's ward, still and white and braver than a man, stood beside me.

  • Rolfe rose from the grass and stood beside me, and Jeremy Sparrow, shouldering aside with scant ceremony Burgess and Councilor, came also.

  • Rolfe and I were to play; he sat on the grass at the feet of Mistress Jocelyn Percy, making her now and then some courtly speech, and I stood beside her, my hand on the back of her chair.

  • Swiftly and lightly he came swinging himself along, bounding over obstacles, with a sure foot and a strong hand; till presently he stood beside them.

  • Basil did not say anything, nor did he go away; he stood beside her, with an outflow of compassion in his heart, but waiting patiently.

  • A few good prints--chiefly sporting--adorned the walls; and the books in the heavy oak revolving bookcase which stood beside one of the big leather chairs were of the type generally described as light.

  • She looked up into his face as he stood beside her at the table, and a glint of mischief came into her eyes as they met his.

  • And as I spoke I saw that he gave to me a glance of great curiosity and would have asked a question but at that moment my Uncle, the General Robert, stood beside us.

  • There remains but a few sous and a gold piece," sobbed Nannette as she came from her interview with the immigration officer while I stood beside Pierre, deposited by a deck steward on a pile of our steamer blankets.

  • Rolfe rose from the grass and stood beside me, and Jeremy Sparrow, shouldering aside with scant ceremony Burgess and Councillor, came also.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civilized peoples; combined attack; dispute about; good stuff; left the; lighted candle; mighty chief; moderate degree; right reason; school days; send back; stood alone; stood erect; stood like; stood listening; stood quite; stood staring; stood still; stood stock; stood there; stood thus; stood upon; stood upright; veined leaves; wish them; your power