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It was Thanksgiving, and Matt Silver was siting around a table with his family when his 24-year-old girlfriend texted.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2018

One day I was siting in the hall-way of our cottage busily employed fashioning, from some crimson willow withes, a pretty basket-cradle, when a shadow suddenly shut out the sunlight from me.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

H——, the great director of Chinese affairs, was siting on an old mattress looking quite paralysed; P——, his counterpart in the Russian bank, was striding about excitedly and muttering to himself.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

She turned and, over her shoulder, laughed mischievously at Maurice, who was siting behind her.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel