To sit amid 150 or 200 men on a Saturday morning in the synagogue was a far cry from the scene we had just left.

It moves and changes us - for the better, as we sit under a velvet sky amid the stars.

I must have sat there for quite some time, cold even amid the comfort of my own things.

The first minister proceeded to the table sitting amid the chairs and the sofa.

A few old people sat around amid the flies.

James made his way there and saw him, sitting amid a group of other men.

Richard was sitting on the floor amid electronic components and his own open backpack.

Carol sat flat upon the floor amid the litter of the food.

The radio was sitting on a high shelf amid a number of nineteenth-century portraits.

Hotel 1829, named for the year in which it was built, sits amid other fine homes.