Say, what dost thou here in the Ghost Mountain, where the stone Witch
sits forever, waiting for the world to die?'
Then the fox came, and said, 'Pray kill me, and cut off my head and my feet.' But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, 'I will at any rate give you good counsel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and
sit down by the side of no river.' Then away he went.
Before mine eyes in opposition
sits Grim DEATH my Son and foe, who sets them on, And me his Parent would full soon devour For want of other prey, but that he knows His end with mine involvd; and knows that I Should prove a bitter Morsel, and his bane, When ever that shall be; so Fate pronounc'd.
He went up to her, took her by the hand, and asked her to
sit down.
He would write for a while, then
sit idle, his clenched fist lying on the table, his eyes following the pattern of the oilcloth.
Laurence would sometimes
sit a whole hour, especially at twilight, gazing at the chair, and, by the spell of his imaginations, summoning up its ancient occupants to appear in it again.