I sit up for about an hour and 30 minutes and meditate, read, pray, and sit quietly.
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Before I was diagnosed, I remember lying on a rheumatologist's table too sick to sit up for more than 20 minutes.
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That's why a new charity initiative from top figures inside the Ethereum community might make a few non-believers sit up for a moment.
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She can't sit up for extended periods of time, so [she's] going in her reclining wheelchair, and we're taking at least two of her beautiful caregivers with us.
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As I sit at my computer, I've got half an eye on this year's nestlings, three little hawks that are now tiny white balls of down, too weak to sit up for long.
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Still resisting sleep at 11, I would sit up for hours each night, filling notebooks with self-conscious confessions in alternating colored pens, falling asleep before I put all the lids back on.
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I used to sit up for hours watching Top Of The Pops when I was four, learned how to play guitar from age seven, and started to meticulously collect records from the age of twelve.
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Barely six months later, on a late morning in November, I found him bedridden in a sunny third-floor motel room on the outskirts of town, too weak from a radiation treatment to sit up for extended periods or speak above a barely audible murmur.
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John Aubrey, in Brief Lives, quotes his brother Christopher to describe how Milton spent his time: "When he went to school, when he was very young, he studied very hard and sat up very late, commonly till twelve or one o'clock at night; and his father ordered the main to sit up for him".qtd in Masson, 1881 p. 85.Oliver Lawson Dick, Aubrey's Brief Lives (1962 edition), pp. 270–5. Milton later attributed his blindness, in his Defensio Secunda, to the rigorous study that he undertook during this time.
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Series 6, Episode 2 – Car and Garter Nora feels guilty when Compo dies in hospital with a smile on his face after suffering a heart attack when seeing her in unwrinkled stockings. She and Ivy sit up for the rest of the night, reminiscing about his various exploits. When Nora and Ivy goes to visit Compo before his funeral in the Chapel Of Rest, Nora is horrified that he still has the smile on his face much to Ivy's amusement. Bill Owen said in an interview that Compo sees Nora as the Elizabeth Taylor of Holmfirth.
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