Do we say lie or lye

lie 10618 occurrences

Sir George Mackenzie's Works (the folio edition) happened to lie in a window in the dining room.

It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive[608].'

As we had been detained so long in Sky by bad weather, we gave up the scheme that Col had planned for us of visiting several islands, and contented ourselves with the prospect of seeing Mull, and Icolmkill and Inchkenneth, which lie near to it.

Having struggled for this a good while in vain, he said, he would push forward till we were near the land of Mull, where we might cast anchor, and lie till the morning; for although, before this, there had been a good moon, and I had pretty distinctly seen not only the land of Mull, but up the Sound, and the country of Morven as at one end of it, the night was now grown very dark.

The intestines do not lie in a loose mass in the abdominal cavity.

Karl can fetch it when they are gone to bed.' As it was yet only midnight, Tina proposed that they should all lie down and take a little rest; and the suggestion being agreed to, she and her husband stretched themselves on their bed, whilst Karl made the floor his couch, and, favoured by his unexcitable temperament, was soon asleep, in spite of what was before him.

Still, the little money she carried in her purse, together with her rings and watch, would be a great deal to so poor a creature; and expecting to see him possess himself of these, she thought it more prudent to lie still and feign sleep, than to disturb him.

It is on the ridge of a small hill, on whose northern slope lie a few stray cottages.

'That will do,' says he; 'ye may go in there and lie down on the bed.'

So Jack asked might he lie down and take a sleep with his head in her lap, the way she could awake him.

According to Joyce, Tommy would not be back until somewhere about two, and I had had so many grisly mornings of turning out at five o'clock after a night of sleepless horror that the mere fact of being able to lie in bed between clean sheets was still something of a novelty and a pleasure.

Lie in bed I accordingly did, and, in the process of consuming several cigarettes, continued to ponder over the extraordinary events of the previous evening.

He evidently knew the lie of the land, for he picked out the firmest patches with remarkable dexterity, keeping on looking back to make sure that Joyce and I were following in his footsteps.

My cottage don't lie more than a mile from Cunnock Crick.

" If ever in my life I felt confident that a man was telling me a lie it was at that moment, but my belief was certainly due to no fault of Mr. Latimer's.

I am making a few chemical experiments in connection with photography" (a most useful lie this), "and I've told my friends to write or send telegrams hereto the post-office.

"Very well, then, go and get a sunstroke," Monsieur de Cadour said; and he went back to the Hôtel des Bains to lie down for an hour or two.

The army had halted at about midnight, and we had received orders to lie down and sleep.

there lives also the immortall praise Of womankinde, most faithfull to her mate, Penelope; and from her farre awayes 430 A rulesse* rout of yongmen which her woo'd, All slaine with darts, lie wallowed in their blood.

There was just room enough for us to lie out straight, the Colonel taking one side and I the other, and a softer or more luxurious bed could hardly be imagined.

But he was too young to be made a bishop, according to the canons,a difficulty, however, which he easily surmounted: he told a lie to the Pope, and then begged for an absolution.

The best judgment of a man is taken from his acquaintance, for friends and enemies are both partial; whereas these see him truest because calmest, and are no way so engaged to lie for him.

His good parts lie dead upon his hands, for want of matter to employ them, and at the best are not commended but pitied, as virtues ill placed, and we may say of him, "Tis an honest man, but tis pity;" and yet those that call him so will trust a knave before him.

He has but one way of making all men welcome that come to his house, and that is by making himself and them drunk; while his servants take the same course with theirs, which he approves of as good and faithful service, and the rather because, if he has occasion to tell a strange, improbable story, they may be in a readiness to vouch with the more impudence, and make it a case of conscience to lie as well as drink for his credit.

Under the tents lie National Guards; they are not seen, but plainly heard, for they are snoring.

lye 285 occurrences

If de grease won't cut, souse 'em wit' lye.

I do not wonder thou canst lye, for thou'rt a Coward!

I whore, drink, game, swear, lye, cheat, rob, pimp, hector, all, all I do that's vitious.

The objection that poets lie Harington meets as Sidney does, "But poets never affirming any for true, but presenting them to us as fables and imitations, cannot lye though they would."

For though I have a beauty to my bed That even Creation envies at, as wanting Stuffe to make such another, yet on her pillow I lye by her but an Adulterer And she as an Adulteresse.

A suit of laugh and lye downe would weare better.

'Twas never full till now: And in this torrent all my hopes lye drown'd.

it's a lye: the Burre that stickes in your throat is a throane: let him out of his messe of Kingdomes cut out but one, and lay Sicilia, Arragon, Naples or any else upon your trencher, and you'll prayse Bastard for the sweetest wine in the world and call for another quart of it.

I doe no good I'le not lye still.

Yes, Madam, best of all; for Poesie Is but a feigning; feigning is to lye, And women practise lying more than men.

That Spaine be free from frights, the King from feares, And I, now held his Infamy, be called Queene; The Treasure of the kingdome shall lye open To pay thy Noble darings.

neither, tho it were seal'd with Butter; and yet I know where they both lye passing well.

Me know you no point love a dis vensh; but, royall Monsire, donne Moy ten towsand French Crownes, she shall kicke up her taile, by gar, and beshide lye dead as dog in the shannell.

Little suspecting What dangers closely lye enambushed.

My Shakespear rise; I will not lodge thee by, Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye, A little further to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still, while the book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

Five lines ending two, hold, lye, not, mistaken.

Truth is always consistent with it self, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our Lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware: whereas a Lye is troublesome, and sets a Man's Invention upon the rack, and one Trick needs a great many more to make it good.

[Sidenote: Job 9:31-35] If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye, Yet thou plunge me into the filth, prove And mine own friends will abhor me.

They are soaked for some hours in the strongest lye, to get rid of their bitterness, and are afterward allowed to stand for a fortnight in frequently-changed fresh water, in order to be perfectly purified of the lye.

They are soaked for some hours in the strongest lye, to get rid of their bitterness, and are afterward allowed to stand for a fortnight in frequently-changed fresh water, in order to be perfectly purified of the lye.

Lye soap was made in large pots, cut into chunks and issued from the smoke house.

Lye soap was used both for laundering and bathing.

"Dey made lye soap on de farms and used indigo from wood for dye.

Lye soap was made by placing burnt ashes into straw with corn shucks placed into harper, water is poured over this mixture and a trough is used to sieze the liquid that drips into the tub and let stand for a day.

In reference to their rations he wrote, "whether this addition ... is sufficient, I will not undertake to decide;but in most explicit language I desire they may have plenty; for I will not have my feelings hurt with complaints of this sort, nor lye under the imputation of starving my negros, and thereby driving them to the necessity of thieving to supply the deficiency.

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