Sentences with the word lay in them

Sentences starting with lay

• Lay your hand upon my brow, and if that is too much, speak but one kind word to me before all is over! [10]
• Lay your heads together when you’re by yourselves. [12]
• Lay out aloft, there, half a dozen of ye —foretopmaststuns’l! [5]
• Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. [7]
• Lay death and sleep down, side by side, and say who shall find the two akin. [12]
• Lay her in shore and stand by to jump with the stern-line the moment she touches. [5]
• Lay thy hand in blessing on mine. [10]
• Lay him in his own bed, and let him sleep off his aches and weariness. [6]
• Lay on the gum in columns of stripes. [5]
• Lay the letter before me to be signed within in hour. [10]

Sentences ending with lay

• It was Joan who, at last, as dawn drew up, discovered the hollow between two great rocks where the treasure lay. [11]
• He came to where the two lay. [11]
• A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
• The high-priest’s servants told him that Setchem had persuaded the easily-moved old prophet Gagabu to conduct her to the place where the body of Paaker lay. [10]
• Presently I drew to the trap-door of my loft, and, raising it gently, came down the ladder to the little hallway, and softly opened the door of the room where Labrouk’s body lay. [11]
• I said, ‘Look to Mathieu,’ indicating the spot where he lay. [5]
• So he concluded to be ill and consult the younger Dr. Hurlbut, and incidentally find out how the land lay. [6]
• Belotti allowed this to be done, but meantime listened with special attention to the low chanting that issued from the bedroom where the old lady’s body lay. [10]
• Wake, and raise thy voice in numbers Sing to Homer, to the bard Who has given life immortal To the heroes of his lay. [10]
• On the whole, there could be no doubt where the most threatening of all his embarrassments lay. [6]

Short sentences using lay

• There lay the will. [11]
• There lay the widow’s garden. [10]
• There lay my way. [11]
• He lay there unconscious. [5]
• So I lay still. [5]
• Jethro Fawe lay still. [11]
• Let’s lay a plan. [5]
• There lay his physical trouble. [11]
• He lay like one asleep. [11]
• There lay the letters. [10]

Sentences containing lay two or more times

• At last he was about to lay his hand on the lad’s shoulder, but paused as by the moonlight he saw Ephraim raise one arm though, before he lay down, both hands were tied more firmly than before. [10]
• What had seemed to him grand, lofty, and worthy of the exertion of all his strength on that night when he sat before the tent where lay the delirious Ephraim, to-day lay far behind him as idle and worthless. [10]
• He took a pack of cards that lay on the table and began to lay them out for a game of patience. [2]
• I lay his mother had trouble to lay her hand on him when she wanted him. [5]
• There lay his letter-book as he had last used it, and there lay fresh memoranda of his projects and engagements. [4]
• You can’t lay it to yourself, Cousin Silence, if Myrtle Hazard goes wrong»— «The Lord will lay it to me,—the Lord will lay it to me,» she moaned. [6]
• Is there anybody here that helped to lay out my br—helped to lay out the late Peter Wilks for burying? [5]
• She put out her hand for a stone that lay near her, and flung it into the spring so that the waters immediately became troubled; then she turned on her side, and lay as if asleep with her head on her arm. [10]
• Here a monk fell wounded, there one lay dead, there again lay a fine and delicate-looking youth, felled by the heavy fist of a recluse. [10]
• Danger lay in every direction, but, to her mind, the least danger lay in following Nahoum’s wish. [11]

More example sentences with the word lay in them

• If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
• Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
• And now, if you’ll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I’ll lay a few mines. [9]
• I’ll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school I’ll tan you good. [5]
• Before whom do you intend to lay your trophies of the chase? [11]
• My love for you inspired me in all that I have done, and, now that I come to lay the result of my labors at your feet, you turn from me, and offer my reward to a stranger. [6]
• But I lay you ain’t a-goin’ to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner. [5]
• I lay before you a communication on this subject from the Governor of New Mexico. [7]
• The events of yesterday; painful and agitating as they had been, had fallen away in the prospect that lay before him—he would see her to-day, and speak with her. [9]
• A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
• Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip’s private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
• He lay there writhing with pain and quaking with apprehension, but straining every muscle in frantic efforts to get up. [5]
• He seized her wrist as it lay on the wall, and she winced from the sudden pain of his grip. [9]
• Phanes had been wounded and went to his tent; Aristomachus lay near him, dying. [10]
• A little dinner wouldn’t make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don’t lay up a cent. [8]
• Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
• At times he would fain have me read to him as he lay in his great four-post bed with the flowered counterpane, from the Spectator, stopping me now and anon at some awakened memory of his youth. [9]
• When would the world know that Adrian Fellowes lay dead in the room on the Embankment? [11]
• But the plasterer works some hair into the mortar which he is going to lay in large sheets on the walls. [3]
• Without saying a word in reply, or giving them a look of reproach, he followed the old woman who had summoned him (and who had now rejoined them) into another room, where his infant friend, half-dressed, lay stretched upon a bed. [12]
• In the Adirondack woods is a wage-earner and lay preacher in the lumber-camps who is of noble character and deeply religious. [5]
• He lay and wondered for a long time, but fell asleep again; and the steely iteration went on in his dreams. [11]
• A very lovely woman, dressed like a queen, lay on silken cushions in the middle of the vessel; by her side sat a man of larger stature than that of ordinary mortals. [10]
• The fault lay without doubt in his Lordship’s charter, which gave to the parishioners no voice in the choosing of their pastors. [9]
• She lay trembling with the horror of the dream-spell upon her, still more than half convinced that the siren was Ditmar’s voice, his true expression. [9]
• Philip was oppressed with the heavy air; the sweltering city lay as in a swoon. [5]
• To surround her with spies chosen from the lay class was repugnant to his lofty nature. [10]
• Her fingers, stained with red, lay beside the bowl. [11]
• He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
• Charley was lying with one arm thrown above his head; the other lay over the side of the bed. [11]
• I look forward with longing to the time when I can lay aside the cares of office—» [«dam sight,» shouted a tipsy fellow near the door. [5]
• His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
• She carefully followed with her fingers the groove in which the stone lay, and having recalled its shape by her sense of touch, she began her search anew. [10]
• It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: «To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
• Then, seating herself, with a melancholy glance at her embroidery where it lay folded together, she rested her elbow on the table and her head in her hand, considering to whom she could appeal to save her father. [10]
• Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
• Having drunk the wine he lay back murmuring thanks and satisfaction, his eyes closed. [11]
• A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
• Tell Sammy I will lay a claim for him, and he must come out and attend to it. [5]
• Fay lay, with wide staring eyes, in the shade of a gloomy wall. [13]
• The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
• The poor woman, who lay there in convulsions, was his daughter-in-law Setchem. [10]
• The unfortunate wretch who fired the train was killed by the explosion, and lay buried hard by, his hands sticking out of the shallow grave into which he had been huddled. [6]
• My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
• The same persons who abuse the reformers, and lay all our troubles at their door, are apt to be severe also on what they contemptuously emphasize as «sentiments» considered as motives of action. [6]
• A group of white fan-tailed pigeons had lighted on the green plot before it and clustered about one of their companions who lay on his back, fluttering in a strange way, with outspread wings and twitching feet. [6]
• Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
• And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! [10]
• Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
• The room in which they were lay on one side of the hypostyle and behind the right-hand—or western—colonnade; more forward, therefore, than the veiled statue and to its left hand. [10]
• The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
• The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs’ yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
• The subject from which the book just mentioned derived its title lay near to his heart. [4]
• The lion, too, which lay unchained by his master’s seat, gave her a fright now and then; for if Caesar raised his voice in anger, he growled and stood up. [10]
• The previous-engagement plea, which in forty years has cost you so many tinges, you cam lay aside forever; on this side of the grave you will never need it again. [5]
• The boat in which Carmen had been placed was swamped not far from shore, but she managed to lay hold of a piece of drifting wreckage, and began to fight steadily and easily landward. [11]
• In the room where paralysis had fallen on him a bed was brought, and he lay nerveless on the verge of a still deeper silence. [11]
• I doubt if, when you lay in your mother’s arms, you turned to her with love. [11]
• Uarda still lay, when the sun was sinking, in front of the hut. [10]
• A month later, when the benevolent physician lay in the death-throes of hydrophobia, he called his weeping friends about him, and said: «Beware of the books. [5]
• Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. [11]
• But shall Charmian—who, when her heart throbbed still more warmly and life lay fair before her, laid her first love upon the altar of sacrifice for her royal playfellow—abandon Cleopatra in misfortune from mere selfish scruples? [10]
• He knew it when he pretended that his head ached—knew it as he lay by her side all night. [11]
• It seemed that when he lay down and drew his blanket over him the action was the last before utter prostration. [13]
• One month later, when a fine white surf of frost lay on the ground, and the sky was darkened often by the flight of the wild geese southward, they came upon a hut perched on a bluff, at the edge of a clump of pines. [11]
• Now only remains what thou shalt do for Egypt—» «And thou—thou wilt be left here to lay thy will upon Egypt. [11]
• She asked him what ailed him; he made no reply, but put his hand to his head, so she led him aside into the public garden that lay to their right between the little Stadium and the Maeandrian circus. [10]
• They were thick, wet woods, unlike our woods of the mountains; and more than once we had excitement enough with the snakes that lay there. [9]
• When the lights were up again the room was empty, save for Theophile Charlemagne, Jake Hough, and Suzon, who lay in a faint on the floor with a nasty bruise on her forehead. [11]
• Gaston lay reading,—they were in the shade of the cliff,—while Andree listened to the Breton tell the legends of the coast. [11]
• Birds of prey were attacking his body as it lay upon the ground, and she could not drive them off. [10]
• As the night went by, and the offices had been done for the dead, she took her place by the bedside of the young wife, who lay staring into space, tearless and still, the life consuming away within her. [11]
• Cynthia knew very well that Ephraim meant to lay hands on Mr. Worthington, and it would indeed have been a disastrous hour for the first citizen if the old soldier had ever got into his library. [9]
• During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. [5]
• I would not weave one spray of falsehood in the wreath I lay upon his grave. [4]
• Stuffs, garments, tapestries, weapons hung over the backs of the chairs, or lay on chests, tables and the stone-floor. [10]
• The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. [5]
• The father and we were each to write a name on a slip of paper and lay it beside the font. [10]
• Ten minutes afterwards we stood beside the flag-staff, and at our feet lay a moaning, mangled figure. [11]
• And presently, as we stared, the note lowered and the wind was gone again, and there was the water tossing foolishly, and we lay safe amidst the green wreckage of the forest as by a miracle. [9]
• Just how far we shall lay bare the unseemly roots themselves is a matter of discretion and taste, and which none of us are infallible. [6]
• One night when we lay in the bogs of the South Beaver Meadow, under a canopy of mosquitoes, the serene midnight was parted by a wild and humanlike cry from a neighboring mountain. [4]
• And then, while we counted out the last seconds of the half, came a snap like that of a whip’s lash, and the bowl of Richter’s pipe lay smouldering on the grass. [9]
• In this latter way did she seem to lay her hand upon the lives of Philip d’Avranche and Guida Landresse. [11]
• However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
• All about the water lay marsh-ground overgrown with leafless bushes, rushes, tall grasses, and reeds. [10]
• Janet often lay watching her, puzzled, under the spell of a frankness, an ingenuousness, a simplicity she had least expected to find in one who belonged to such a learned place as that of Silliston. [9]
• Several times the watchers heard muffled sobs from the dark room where she lay at St. Denis, and many times the grieving words, «It could have been taken!—it could have been taken! [5]
• Yet as I watched the mist slowly rise, there grew in me the feeling that there lay the end of my quest. [11]
• Consequently, the larboard watch was ordered to lay in his pole. [5]
• But, as it was, he cut the face off the work with a knife, and deliberately trod the pieces under foot as they lay on the ground. [10]
• The boat which was to convey him over to it lay ready in the little flotilla, where a magnificently equipped galley had just been moored to the shore, undoubtedly the one that had brought the guests from Pelusium hither. [10]
• How acutely he was suffering could be seen in his drawn mouth and sad eyes, but he would not allow himself to be interrupted, often as the abbess and the gardener entreated him to lay aside the stylus. [10]
• The old man was stretched beside her, and with her hand upon his neck she lay and dreamed. [12]
• The young hermit was soon only half listening to all she said, for his attention had been riveted by the armor which lay before him, and which gave a new direction to his excited feelings. [10]
• That dying pillow was softened by the sweetest domestic affection; and as he lay down to the sleep which the Lord giveth his beloved, his face was as the face of an angel, and his smile seemed to give a glimpse of the opening heavens. [6]
• Ah, the morning was silver with glory As I lay by my tent on the shore; And the soft air was drunken with odours, And my soul lifted up to adore. [11]
• A plump finger was pointing to where the sandy reef lay far astern of us. [9]
• A dreamy smile was on her face, and she lay unresisting, very still. [9]
• The old lady was no longer alone, for in the background, on a long and narrow couch which stood in front of the statue of Apollo, lay a tall, lean man, wearing a red chiton. [10]

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