They sat in the shade of a tree.

and they sat and watched him there.

And sitting down they watched him there

The street is the mother and the school and the pavement is the chair they sat on to learn street begging ... its fences are a retreat for a sleep haunted by fear and the walls are caves for dreams struggling for survival ... they wander at night between streets, running after fancy cars so their owners would throw them some coins that would repel misery, their clothes do not show any sign of satiety or hydration.

These three people in the village sat down and decided to think, How do we elongate the life of this girl of our village?

There were two Sundays in between. But of course, Sundays are church days, so you don't play on Sundays. And one day it rained, so they all sat around making friends with each other.

And by this weird quirk of alphabetical order of the nations, a lot of the low lying states, like Kiribati and Nauru, they were seated at the very end of these immensely long rows.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

And they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

She introduced them to a book about the Southern life that they had left behind They sat around, reading the book themselves, listening to me read the book, and a kind of paradise was regained.

If 27 individuals from those 27 member states sat around table, speaking their 23 languages, some very simple mathematics will tell you that you need an army of 253 translators to anticipate all the pairwise possibilities.

Nowadays, Arabs are watching the Korean missiles war, just like they sat back, watching on Al Jazeera the Israeli missiles war on Gaza and just like they sat, before that, watching the range of Israeli missiles falling on Lebanon in the summer of 2006. They mocked Hizbulla's rockets falling on Israel.