sitts

Supream Court sitts, and that where the Mayor and Recorder sit.

John Adams diary 21, 15 August - 3 September 1774 1961

When he sitts, he sometimes lolls on the arms of his

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

She sitts and looks steadily, one way, very often, several minutes together in thought.

John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

At another sitts the polemical Divine, plodding and wrangling in his mind about

John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

The _cavass_ in charge of the servants was beginning to be fussy, in fear that while we were dawdling about the one train might come and go, and the _sitts_ and _effendis_ be left to the limited accommodations of Aïasulouk for the night.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Now sell me, quoth hee, thy bryde soe gay, as shee sitts by thy knee;

Kyng Estmere 1898

This sometymes is managed in Commision by three, but many tymes by one single person, he allwayes sitts in the house of Lords alsoe and is ye speaker of ye house of Lords.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

In all these sessions at ye Old Bayly ye Lord Major is the judge and sitts as such, but Leaves the management of the Law to the Chiefe justice or Judges which ought to be two.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

He sitts in the house of Lords often – he may allwayes – to hear debates and to vote and he does present them to the king any of their addresses they desire, which he is attended with some of the Lords which are the privy Councellors; they bring back the kings answere.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

Two judges must goe in Each Circuite and in all places the one sitts on the Bench of Life and Death, ye other on buisness de-nise-prises, and soe they exchange in all the places they Come, ye judge yt was on the Life and death at one County, in the next takes ye barr of the nais prisse and so on.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888