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  •   But light leaves, young as joy, stands where it stood,

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • Passing him with his eyes as if there were nothing where he stood,

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Dawkins, bristling up, and throwing back her head as she stood,

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood,

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • ‘Ye wor the bravest gentleman, an’ the best that ever stood,

    The Purcell Papers 2003

  • Back started the pale throngs, and trembling stood,

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

  • JILSEPONIE STOOD ON the brown field under the gray sky, staring at the towering walls, the gray stones chipped and weathered, speaking of the ages this bastion had stood,

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • JILSEPONIE STOOD ON the brown field under the gray sky, staring at the towering walls, the gray stones chipped and weathered, speaking of the ages this bastion had stood,

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • White and black of every shade; young and old; men and women; drawn from every region of Mozambique and every walk of life, they were in their diversity and in the principles for which they stood,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • She found nothing to recall here, yet somewhere, fifty meters below where they stood,

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

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