In Paris, when Ms. Parry returned home, she sat grandly in a wooden chair.

Where the American Museum of Natural History pulls in three million visitors a year, the Historical Society, sitting grandly right beside it on Central Park West, gets fewer than 150,000.

The building sits grandly on the river and consists of elaborate kitchens, private quarters, cloisters and extensive gardens.

Here, the Cattedrale di San Ciriaco sits grandly atop the site of an ancient Pagan temple, jimmied together with Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic features.

M Map Sitting grandly at the top of the old town, Tarragona's cathedral is undergoing a major facelift and much of it is largely closed.

Doc was sitting grandly at the bar with a steaming tumber of tea--a chaser, I guess, since he was Just putting down a shot glass.

Some two miles long and a quarter-mile across, Wassataquoik Lake sits grandly in a green-walled glacial valley: a sweep of blue water, green woods and gray rock beneath large dark clouds and deep blue sky.

As it was, she sat back grandly, bowing now to the left, now to the right and feeling more important than she had ever felt in her whole cotton career.

Trying not to shake with nerves, Sophie sat grandly in the embroidered chair opposite Mrs. Pentstemmon's, supporting herself on her stick in what she hoped was the same elegant way.

The boss sat grandly behind his metal desk, eyed the jittery captive with a mixture of pomposity and kindliness.