As the judge and the lawyers talked quietly for about five minutes, the witness sat erect and silent, occasionally wiping her eyes and glancing at her folded hands.

Paviour gathered himself together with a perceptible effort, sitting erect and taut.

From the moment that she had put her thumb in her mouth, she had stopped sitting erect and ladylike.

She sat very erect, but she always did.

But she sat very erect and there was a welcoming smile on her thin, rather aristocratic features.

"No." D'ram sat erect and alert.

She found it necessary to sit very erect and to look straight ahead.

McLanahan thought Cobb looked a little like the Lincoln Memorial, sitting erect and unmoving in his seat, hands on either side of him, staring straight ahead.

Once in a while, it did sit very erect, looking through the windshield or side window at the scenery with what seemed an unusual degree of interest and attention.

Einstein sat very erect, his chest puffed out, his head held high, as if confident of his ability.