Do we say leans or liens

leans 261 occurrences

The others lingered, too, a moment, till they saw it was a girl following; then they turned and sauntered slowly on, still singing: "Ef I was a little bird, I'd nest in the tallest tree, That leans over the waters of the beautiful Tennessee.

Now he rises, draws the rattan-canes through his hands, and then leans against a palm-tree with eyes tightly closed and hands quivering as if in pain.

What form leans sadly o'er the white death-bed, In mockery of monumental stone, The heavy heart heaving without a moan?

The American war is still lasting; Like a terrible nightmare it leans On the breast of a country, now fasting For cotton, for work, and for means.

"It is a curious feeling to be in the midst of a battle and not to know to which side fortune leans.

Before those thresholds (never can they know The face of traveller passing to and fro,) No peasant leans upon his pole, to tell 240 For whom at morning tolled the funeral bell; Their watch-dog ne'er his angry bark foregoes, Touched by the beggar's moan of human woes; The shady porch ne'er offered a cool seat To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat.

While Hope, that ceaseless leans on Pleasure's urn, 1820.]

[Leans upon OSWALD.]

Who trust this world, leans to a brittle stay: Such fickle fruit his flattering bloom forth brings, Ere it be ripe, it falleth to decay.

Madame Caterna leans toward him, makes little confused grimaces, and then leans back into the corner and seems to reply to her husband, who in turn replies to her.

Madame Caterna leans toward him, makes little confused grimaces, and then leans back into the corner and seems to reply to her husband, who in turn replies to her.

Tall, sturdy, elastic, dressed in chain-mail, victorious, careless, the impersonation of ruddy life, the young Norway conqueror leans upon his sword above the pitiable sight.

He leans her head upon his breast, She knew 't was not her home of rest,

It leans on the side of the hill which rises from the Danube, and must be nearly a mile in length.

It pushes the doctrine of pure love, perhaps, to a perilous extreme, but still an extreme that leans to the side of the highest virtue.

The angel leans from heaven and points to the ram, which is seated quietly and out of sight of the main actors.

Arm of the world, I view thee, and I muse On Man, who, trusting in his mortal strength, Leans on a shadowy staff, a staff of dreams.

This "crooked" spire, which leans over to the south-west, has been the object of much discussion amongst antiquaries, as to whether it was designed in such a fashion, or whether the present state of affairs has been brought about by a warping of the timber frame under the outside covering of lead.

[She leans over in a playful rapture and binds her hair about him] Look,I will be thy garden that we lost, Yea, everywhere,in every wilderness.

JAN leans out and points to the ground.

Nor will you need to wait for the postman, but be able to read her flowerlike words as they write themselves out on the luminous slate before you, at the very moment as she leans her fragrant bosom upon her electric desk three thousand miles away.

I do not like her; she reminds me of the leaning tower at Pisa,leans but does not fall.

She turns from the crucifix to gaze at him; and we see how the interview will end: for an aged female attendant, in coif and scapulary, leans over to extinguish the candles.

He leans rashly enough on the assumption that her "Gondal Chronicles" were, in their puerility, beneath contempt, still more rashly on his own opinion that she was no poet.

"When you've done strarfin' that bully-beef, 'and it over, ole man!" He leans his head back upon the lip of the shell-hole, and gazes pensively at the notice-board six feet away.

liens 26 occurrences

The coal fields of the Saar are to be handed over, in entire and absolute ownership, free of all liens and obligations, to France, in compensation for the destruction of the coal mines in the north of France.

No. : 7 Duties : Scale Logs, Record Marks, Secure Laborers' Liens. How Chosen: Appointed by the Governor and Confirmed by the Senate.

Ces moments pénibles ne peuvent que raffermir les liens de l'attachement profond qui unissent la Serbie à la sainte Russie slave, et les sentiments de reconnaissance éternelle pour l'aide et la protection de Votre Majesté seront conservés pieusement dans l'âme de tous les Serbes.

[Footnote 59: Relating to the discharge of liens and incumbrances upon real estate which has or may become the property of the United States.]

The law of mechanic's liens in Pennsylvania, with selected forms.

Mortgages and other liens in Maryland, by Hyman Ginsberg & Isidore Ginsberg.

Mortgages and other liens in Maryland.

Mechanics liens In New Jersey.

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New York law of mechanics liens.

The law of mechanic's liens in Pennsylvania, with selected forms.

Mortgages and other liens in Maryland, by Hyman Ginsberg & Isidore Ginsberg.

Mortgages and other liens in Maryland.

Mechanics liens In New Jersey.

<pb id='496.png' n='1967h2/A/2652' /> SONEY & SAGE CO. Mechanics liens in New Jersey.

New York law of mechanics liens.

One hundred millions, speaking the tongue of Shakespeare and Milton on the American continent, and as many millions more on continents more recently settled by the same race, across the ocean, and across century-seas of time, shall moor their memories to these humble dwellings of England's hamlets, and feel how many taut and twisted liens attach them to the motherland of mighty nations.

The homestead is liable for taxes accruing thereon, and if platted as hereinafter directed, is liable only for such taxes and subject to mechanics' liens for work, labor, or material, done or furnished exclusively for the improvement of the same, and the whole or a sufficient portion thereof may be sold to pay the same.

All the taxes against the owner of the homestead become liens thereon, unless it is platted as directed by statute.

The owner may from time to time change the limits of the homestead by changing the metes and bounds, as well as the record of the plat and description, or may change it entirely, but such changes shall not prejudice conveyances or liens made or created previously thereto, and no change of the entire homestead made without the concurrence of the husband or wife, shall affect his or her right or those of the children.

Mechanics' liens give to workmen in the building trades the first claim upon the products of their labor. § 4.

These stones which I the King Nezahualcoyotl have succeeded in uniting in loving liens, 11. Are the famous princes, the one called Axaxacatzin, the other Chimalpopoca, and Xicomatzintlamata.

The greatest mass of legislation is, of course, that upon mechanic's liens, which are burdensome to a degree that is vexatious, besides being subject to amendment almost every year.

Mechanics' liens, legislation concerning.

Although it was pretty well ascertained that no actual contraband in the usual sense of the term had been carried from America by the ships which were seized, difficult questions were thus avoided as between liens and general ownerships which might have arisen had American shippers been compelled to go into court.

Do we say   leans   or  liens