People run for it in Washington

Usage examples of seat.

Beside the cushion was a vacant throne, radiant as morning in the East, ablaze with devices in gold and gems, a seat to fill the meanest soul with sensations of majesty and tempt dervishes to the sitting posture.

He saw one young Abies girl, then another, seated side by side on the floor, in the shadows between the wooden end-legs of a broad workbench and the far-left wall.

For instance, if your forward-facing chair is bolted to the floor and your compartment is being accelerated forward, you will feel the force of your seat on your back just as with the car described by Albert.

Take a seat, and tell me what there is to prevent you, when, in accepting my offer, you are sure to please M.

Godfrey without children, or on the future acquisition of a new seat at Cairo or Damascus.

Mr Steplight and I made a fine pair of travelling-companions, for he addressed no word to me nor even looked in my direction during all the first stage so that I might have been a parcel he had shoved onto the seat beside him.

Terrace Watson was seated behind his desk in the inner office, surrounded by file cabinets, an addressograph machine, a postage meter, a voice typer, and a computer with memory storage.

He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

As it passed in front of the lighted admin office, he caught a glimpse of two military policemen in the front seat, and one individual in the backseat.

Now it was a poster on the wall, an admonition to wear seat belts, that demanded her unwavering gaze.

He was thinking of something so widely different, being seated, in fact, just opposite to Sara, who, fresh from her afternoon sleep, was looking adorably pensive in her black dress edged with a soft white frill that took a heart-shaped curve in front, just wide enough to show the exquisite hollow in the lower part of her throat.

American bicycle-builders had surpassed the Royal Aeronautical Society, because they flew their crafts themselves, lying prone in their own creations, flying, as it was noted, by the seat of their pants.

The millionaire smiled affably at this pleasantry and invited his guest to be seated.

Or it was perhaps a beggar who came to him on the old yellow marble seat under the orange trees, and chatted affably about his business as being bad in these times of war.

The male Relidose stood silently afrown, seeing, perhaps for the first time, the madness which filled the male called High Seat.