“There are also a growing number ⟳ of lesbians in prison who are out about being lesbian and that stand ⟳ in and of itself is much stronger than being out on the outside. These women are in much greater danger.”

“They have ⟳ a four-game stand ⟳ at home against the Yankees.”

“They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.”

“He set ⟳ the music upon the stand ⟳ and began to play ⟳. an umbrella stand ⟳; a hat-stand”

“There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand ⟳, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”

“Whilst I nipped out to get ⟳ the booze Eddie would ease the large bread stand ⟳ at the far end ⟳ of the shop ⟳ out from the counter so as to leave ⟳ a gap behind, big enouh to take ⟳ the basket. I would streak into the shop ⟳ like ⟳ a whippet and be behind the bread stand ⟳ before you could blink.”

“She took the stand ⟳ and quietly answered questions.”

“Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall ⟳ 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand ⟳.”

“When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]”

“Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear ⟳ on the stands and take ⟳ off their hats, as if to a corpse.”

“This stand ⟳ of pines is older than the one next to it.”

“Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.”

“One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter ⟳, and is at a stand ⟳, to think ⟳ what should be in it, that men should love ⟳ lies; where neither they make ⟳ for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.”

“Antonia's patience now was at a stand ⟳— "Come ⟳, come ⟳, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered[…]”

“a taxi stand ⟳”

“a good, bad, or convenient stand ⟳ for business”

“The end ⟳ of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand ⟳ housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.”

“England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test ⟳ as a stand ⟳ of 132 between Alastair Cook ⟳ and Ian Bell saw ⟳ off an early West Indies charge.”

“The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand ⟳ of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.”

“Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand ⟳, I mean ⟳ not to descend.”

“to be at a stand ⟳ what to do”

“Come ⟳, I have ⟳ found you out a stand ⟳ most fit, / Where you may have ⟳ such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass ⟳ you.”

“The cost ⟳ of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand ⟳.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process ⟳ four times.”

“Crew of 14 billers and a four-man brigade will be 10 days ahead and will use ⟳ all special paper including new jungle and animal designs being prepared by Enquirer Printing Company. New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal ⟳ calls for use ⟳ of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used. Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last ⟳ season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand ⟳, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.”

“Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.”

“[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]”

“Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit ⟳ the alestond, and also keepe his othe.”

“Memp. Ile teach ⟳ my wag-halter to know ⟳ grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet. Spe. And I mine, to iudge the difference between a blacke boule and a siluer goblet. Stel. And mine shall learne the oddes betweene a stand ⟳ and a hogs-head; yet I cannot choose ⟳ but laugh ⟳ to see ⟳ how my wag aunswered mee, when I stroke him for drinking sacke.”

“As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand ⟳ of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.”

“I have ⟳ the rareſt Stand ⟳ of Ale to drink ⟳ out in the Afternoon, with three or four honeſt Country-fellows;”

“[…]that he may have ⟳ leave ⟳ to meet ⟳ ſome few Neighbours to duſt a ſtand of Ale[…]”

“All his war ſtore of proviſions conſiſted in three ſtands of barbicued veniſon, till he had an opportunity to revenge blood, and return ⟳ home.”

“First dip me in a stand ⟳ o milk, / And then a stand ⟳ o water;”

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