stoop

• Grant was seated on the upper "stoop," resting his chin on his folded arms, which were on the rail of a baluster. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• I saw a little fellow stoop, and, resting his rifle on his knee, take a long aim and fire. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
• Coligny would have been the taller by a half-head but for his stoop, yet in spite of it there was energy and military vigour in his carriage, just as there was a severe dignity amounting to haughtiness in his scarred and wrinkled countenance. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
• "It has old chairs littered about the stoop, and the shingles are loose, and the garden runs wild; but I don't know that the neighbours are exactly justified in rushing in, and stamping around, and running the thing on their own lines Not if it were on fire?" —  A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
• Here even royalty must stoop--not that we would be understood to imply that royalty cannot stoop elsewhere. —  Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines

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