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Sit out

verb

Not participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event).

Endure to the end.

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"Sit out" Quotes from Famous Books

... is caused by the swarms of fleas which infest every part of the house, but most especially the boxes. Unfortunately, this nuisance is irremediable, and the visitor must be blessed with a large amount of endurance who can patiently sit out a whole ...

— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi

... to sit out this hour, too. It was a little lighter outside than in the house, and it seemed to me that my chest did not pain quite so badly out in the open air. I should get home, too, soon enough—and I dozed, and thought, ...

— Hunger • Knut Hamsun

... very own. Like the apple-tree house. Very well, he'll give it to me—I mean to both of us—and I shall come up here where it's all quiet and you'd never know there was a war at all—even the Belgians have forgotten it. And I shall sit out here and look at that hill, because it's straight and beautiful. I won't—I simply won't think of anything that isn't straight and beautiful. And I shall get strong. Then the baby will be straight and ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... one man the whole evening. How weary they must get of each other! Engaged people invariably pass the evening together, and sometimes do not dance at all, but sit out in some secluded corner. They have to endure one another for years to come, I wonder they do not get as much variety as possible now. At any rate, they might just as ...

— Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl - Sister of that "Idle Fellow." • Jenny Wren

... heaven to dance with a young man who was not a cousin; and to sit out alone with him in the moonlight, ...

— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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