Then an arm and head, then the man was standing there.
No more running tonight; her legs and arms couldn't stand it.
He grabbed for the doorway with his right hand, but his wounded arm couldn't stand the strain.
Standing 'at attention': this means someone is standing upright with their shoulders back and arms by side.
Several times they had to stop and rest, but finally the arm stood straight up, its tip only a few feet from the nearest wall of stone.
He waves his single arm at me as I stand much saddened by his departure.
THE arms stand straight up or come across, just so.
Then he put his free arm around her and the whole family stood in a clumsy but fervent four-way embrace.
But it would take nine months in Skin to regrow the hand and lower arm and 1 won't stand for it.
The two arms stood until September 1938 when they were destroyed in that year's hurricane.