Everything was rough, from the walls and the roof to the floor of whip-sawn planks, and the rude standees where the patients would be placed.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
I wedged myself in among the standees at the back, leaning up against a chap who, from the aroma, might have been a corn chandler or something on that order.
"Right Ho, Jeeves"
P. G. Wodehouse
His carefully studied effects would reach the first rows in the orchestra first, and ripple in laughter back to the standees against the wall, and then with a fine resurgence come again to the rear orchestra seats, and so rise from gallery to gallery till it fell back, a cataract of applause from the topmost rows of seats.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells"
William Dean Howells