3727 examples of lie in in sentences

And many persons who were innocent of any offence would lie in dungeons for years!

The Humanists, Cardinal Bembo (1470-1549), Ferreri, Bessarion, and Pope Leo X. (1513-1521) considered the big faults of the Breviary to lie in its barbarous Latinity.

They do not lie in wait, nor scheme, nor fawn, nor seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of popular favor.

The battle-fields of life lie in ambush.

A] Wilt lie in my place.

"To-morrow you will be wise enoughor, if you are not wise enough, you will be kind enough to me because I ask itto lie in bed all day, and I shall come very early in the morning to see how you are.

The same insuperable obstacles do not lie in the way of executing the laws for the collection of the customs.

But all this was of no avail, and he thought to himself if two lie in a bed together they warm each other; so he put the body in the bed, and covering it up laid himself down by its side.

The power of Richardson's method does actually lie in the "soaking process" to which FitzGerald refers.

The only protection for the city now is a small fleet of battle ships, monitors and gunboats that lie in the harbor, and there are usually several visiting men of war at the anchorage.

I think it is because I lie in bed so much more than he does, I'm always having to go to bed in the daytime when I'm ill, and that must keep you from growing, don't you think so?"

It would lie in wait in sheltered places, smouldering, husbanding its fuel until the grass was yellow and the forests sere.

He's taken to haunting the placethe Court, mind youto lie in wait for the fair Juliet.

Now may I return patiently to all the duties that lie in my sphere.

Life is a journey, and its fairest flowers Lie in our path beneath pride's trampling feet; Oh, let us stoop to virtue's humble bowers, And gather those, which, faded, still are sweet.

The character of this effort seems to me chiefly to lie in bringing the contents of the antechamber more nearly within the ken of consciousness, which then takes comprehensive note of all its contents, and compels the logical faculty to test them seriatim before selecting the fittest for a summons to the presence-chamber.

Then to the palace-hall they bore the knight, To lie in solemn state, a public sight.

The Arethusa was followed a few days later by the Wizard,a small gunboat which could lie in Canea harbor,where, for the next few months, its commander, Murray, was our sole and sufficient protector.

The following passage is from one of our oldest dramas, and it will readily call to the recollection of the reader, the celebrated speech of Claudio in Measure for Measure: "To die is sure to go we know not whither, We lie in silent darkness, and we rot.

Feel as she might, she could not have been so hard-hearted as to crush the hopes of a man who, like herself, might soon lie in a watery grave.

that frowns could lie in wait For such a foe as this! XXI.

" Silent and severe by day, she moaned away whole nights heaping reproaches upon herself for the impulsenow to her, because it had failed, inexplicable in its follywhich had permitted her hand to lie in Bras-Coupé's and the priest to bind them together.

We are not acquainted with the depths of his infinite wisdom and counsel; and so we see not what noble ends he hath before him, in suffering those impediments to lie in the way of his chariot.

We know your taste does not lie in that quarter.

It is something strangely dreamlike to lie in the water in the quiet, warm light, gently carried along by the stream; to look at the sky with the moon and stars above one, and, on either side, to see the wooded mountain-tops and castle parapets in the moonlight, and to hear nothing but the gentle rippling of one's own motion.

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