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Examples
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It is pierced through in the front; it is stiff and hard and it has a good standing-place.
Nick Laird enters the spirit of Anglo-Saxon poetry Nick Laird 2010
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So he took standing-place amongst the merchants, and they thought he had a mind to buy her, knowing the wealth he had inherited from his parents.
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Then he went in to the Princess and embraced her; and she kissed his hands and they wept in the standing-place of parting.
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Wherever his foot has found a standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have followed.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Wherever his foot has found a standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have followed.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Wherever his foot has found a standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have followed.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Wherever his foot has found a standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have followed.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Wherever his foot has found a standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have followed.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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She could look back to it from her present standing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being, the young unmarried girl absorbed in her love, having no eyes but for one special object, receiving parental affection if not ungratefully, at least indifferently, and as if it were her due — her whole heart and thoughts bent on the accomplishment of one desire.
Vanity Fair 2006
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But his elation did not lift him many inches from his standing-place, to which he came down again on the instant, causing the boards of the crazy old coach-roof to crack with the weight of his joy.
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