"Stand for" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it as bad as that? The poor girl, no wonder she—fibbed. I would too, if I had to stand for splints." ...
— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose
... Bill. "You know, as well as I do, that if we are implicated in this affair it means serious trouble. Our parents wouldn't stand for it, and we should be disgraced. By doing it this way we get some of the proceeds—I admit not our fair share ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... his article, in pamphlet form, so that readers may have both sides of the question before them. I do not follow him in detail in his apologetic, religious, metaphysical, and oratorical digressions where common-places stand for ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
... knees beside his bed. "I will pray to you!" she said, her face intense with the passions working in her soul. She seemed choking with words which would not come; then, with an inarticulate cry that must stand for all, she caught up the hand that lay limp on the coverlet; she crushed it against her lips, and ran out ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... this situation, did these things stand for five years; that is from the demolition of Dunkirk in the year 13, to the latter end of my uncle Toby's campaign in the year 18, which was about six or seven weeks before the time I'm speaking of.—When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
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