See Also:BEARING,IMMOBILITY

1. Carefully lowered himself into the chair like someone entering a steaming hot bath —Andrew Kaplan
2. Grandly sitting like a great rock —John Ashbery
3. Hit his chair like a large rock —Rita Mae Brown
4. Hunkered down on our haunches like Indians —Stephen King
5. Just sits there … like a sick cat —Niven Busch
6. Perched [on a stool] like a night owl —Jonathan Valin
7. [Eight matrons] perched like pigeons around two identical card tables —Leigh Allison Wilson
8. Sank back [into chair] … like a weighted diver into water —Richard Moran

   The diver comparison is particularly apt within the context of Moran’s novel,Cold Sea Rising, with its many ocean scenes.

9. Sank into a chair like a stone sinking into water —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
10. Sat as still as a bird sleeping on a limb —James Crumley
11. Sat bolt upright, like a character in a work of cheap fiction —Peter De Vries
12. Sat down heavily, like a farmer getting ready for Sunday dinner —Harvey Swados
13. Sat like a bronze figure —William Brammer

    The variations on sitting, standing or being “Still as a statue” are virtually limitless.

14. Sat like a humped stone —Flannery O’Connor
15. Sat like a lump of lead —Erich Maria Remarque
16. Sat like granite —Walter Stone
17. Sat like half-folded shirts, arms out of the way and knees close together —Mary Ward Brown
18. Sat [silently] like someone who can’t remember the punch-line —William Mcllvanney
19. Sat like some portent against the skies of the evening —E. M. Forster
20. Sat like wood —Leslie Thomas
21. Sat silent, motionless, like guests waiting to be welcomed —Helen Hudson
22. Sat stiff as a cockroach, waiting to spring to life —Miles Gibson
23. Sat stolidly, like an egg flattened on its bottom —David Ignatow
24. Sat there like a mountain —Eudora Welty
25. Sat up abruptly like a clockwork figure released by a spring —Joyce Cary
26. Sat up and crossed his legs like a tailor. Like a tailor with no needle —Sterling Hayden
27. Sat up as if she’d been shot from a cannon —Jonathan Valin
28. Sat up —like a soldier at reveille —Jonathan Valin
29. Sat up like Lazarus —Ray Bradbury
30. She is dumped on the seat like a barrel of ashes —Malcolm Cowley
31. Sitting [on the floor] like a sack —Ivan Turgenev
32. Sit like a frog on a chopping block —John Ray’sProverbs
33. Sit like an umbrella —Bertold Brecht
34. Sit like fixed candlesticks —William Shakespeare
35. Stood there like a mannequin —T. Coraghessan Boyle
36. Sit silent and still as if they were in a photograph, slightly out of focus —George Garrett
37. Sits like a pile of dough —Lee Smith
38. Sits quietly with her hands in her lap, like a pregnant woman being driven to the delivery rooom —Alice McDermott
39. Sits up high like a job applicant —Richard Ford
40. Sitting like somebody found at Pompeii —William Mcllvanney
41. Sitting motionless … like a mother who affects not to notice the rude or awkward conduct of her children —Marcel Proust
42. (She straightened up,) sitting stiff and small, like a small mast against a storm —Elizabeth Spencer
43. Sitting there pop-eyed as a ventriloquist’s dummy —Antonia White
44. You sit with your head like a carving in space —Wallace Stevens