Careful Words

sitting (n.)

sitting (adj.)

  'T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

As it fell upon a day

In the merry month of May,

Sitting in a pleasant shade

Which a grove of myrtles made.

Richard Barnfield (1574-1620): Address to the Nightingale.

That darksome cave they enter, where they find

That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,

Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto ix. St. 35.

I'm sitting on the stile, Mary,

Where we sat side by side.

Lady Dufferin (1807-1867): Lament of the Irish Emigrant.