49669 examples of laid in sentences

Near the top were laid sandal, aloe, and other kinds of fragrant wood.

The Scene is laid in the Tartar Camp on the Frontiers; and in the Palace of Han. ~THE

Barney filled his canteen from the running water, and, wetting his handkerchief, laid it on Nick's parboiled head and temples.

She withdrew very happy and contented, for Olympia had said many tender things; she almost felt that she had done the Confederacy a great service, to have laid so many people under an obligation that might in the future result in something remarkable for the cause.

"I know what gunshot wounds are: you think they are healed, and begin fooling about, when you find yourself laid up worse than ever.

Once inside the delicious odorous screen, they found themselves in an archipelago of green islets, connected by monster roots or moss-covered trunks that seemed laid by elfin hands for the penetration of this leafy jungle.

Presently, as he walked beneath this leafy twilight, he heard the luring sound of running water, and turning thither, laid him down where was a small and placid pool, for he was athirst.

A dozen hands, it seemed, laid hold on Lefty.

She laid her hand on the knob of the door and withdrew it hastily; then, summoning great resolution, she opened the door and showed Donnegan in.

" Saying this, he laid his large left hand on the bar and leaned a little toward the bartender, but his right hand remained hanging loosely at his side.

My head was upon a pillow, downy and white, instead of the green vale of chair in which I had laid it down.

" I laid my head down to its resting-place, listening still.

I went into the deserted room, put down the window-sash that he had left open, laid more wood upon the dying embers, caught up Miss Axtell's shawl, and, throwing it over my head, started down the stairs.

and I laid my hand upon hers, as the only method of drawing away her eyes from their terrible immutation of expression.

"Abraham, I'm sick," she said; and she laid her head upon his shoulder, passively as an infant might have done.

Aaron and Mr. Axtell had carried the poor invalid to the library, and laid her upon the sofa there, but it was very cold.

It laid my spirits low for a moment; then they rose as those of a better man might rise at the scent of danger.

"Is it for me to laud her virtues, or to seek to impress upon you in this connection, the overwhelming nature of the events which in reality had laid her mind and body low?

When he had laid her down, she opened her eyes wide, stared him in the face for a moment, as if she knew all about everything except just what she was looking at, put her thumb in her mouth, and was fast asleep.

But then it grew dark and began to thunder, and the angel went down very fast, and the thunder was the clapping of his big red wings, and he flew with her into her mamma's room, and laid her down in her crib, and when she looked at him he was so like Willie.

Indeed so many kept coming and going at all hours through the garden, that the MacMichaels at length found it very troublesome, and had a small pipe laid to a little stone trough built into the garden wall on the outside, so that whoever would might come and drink with less trouble to all concerned.

He hastily replaced it, and laid hold of the next.

I shall kill him, mother; I Shall kill him, and lay waste his house with fire As he laid ours.

So her stones may yet be laid One on another, if God will, and wrought Again to a city!

The maxim was, that whoever possessed the coast had a right to all the territory in hand as far as the Pacific; so that the British charters only laid down the limits of the colonies from north to south, leaving them quite free from east to west.

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