perch

Often Mick would perch on those back stairs, perusing art books as he waited for her.

I crossed the room with my rifle up, stood on top of the bed, and from my perch looked down at bin Laden.

Luckily for Goodell, he'll have plenty of money if he were to be forced off the commissioner's perch.

Jack Welch, who took over General Electric in 1981, left his perch in 2001, not long after he turned 65.

Day after day, Lou sat on the Yankee bench, a perch that increasingly represented his security.

Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.

I think the coulée right under his perch is an arm of the one we're in; runs in somewhere below.

Mebby I'll perch on top o' the court-house, too, fer a spell, an' take a leetle fly out by the Injun school.

Dorothy descended from her lofty perch on the stool, and met the red gleaming eyes of Pincher intently watching all her movements.

Isabel gratefully climbed to his high perch, after stating that she had no money, and being royally silenced.