On a recent afternoon, he was seen in his government office, a spartan affair with a cardboard nameplate propped atop a fax machine.

Quark turned in place and propped his hands atop the curved sill of the window.

Sifting to face Coan, he hooked one foot over the chairs arm and propped his elbow atop the back.

"We think not," says the cat, its one-eyed filthy head propped atop an arrested drift of data.

Smith propped his chin back atop his pinguid hands.

He hooked an empty desk toward him and propped both feet atop it, leaning back with his arms crossed.

The waitress left, and Serge carefully propped the tooth atop the napkin dispenser for maximum display.

To get wide-angle views, he propped a tripod atop a six-foot stepladder.

She looked me up and down, her eyes stopping on the glasses propped atop my head.

They were busy propping the lever beam atop a rock, making a fulcrum.