1
In front of it stood a line of Blue Guards, headed by the Senestro.
2
He turned a page or two and out from the text there stood a line:
3
Close by the door stood a line of footmen, resplendent in their powdered wigs, red plush coats, and silver shoulder knots.
4
On a rising ground close to the camp stood a line of old women singing a medicine song to allay the tumult.
5
At the door of his office stood a line of grieving parents not unlike the ones I'd encountered at the Um al-Qura mosque.
6
At this last feverish moment the course was empty and closed by gray barriers, between the posts of which stood a line of policemen.