Which preposition to use with lye

in Occurrences 29%

Early on the following morning the fires should be lighted, and as soon as hot water can be procured, washing commenced; the sheets and body-linen being wanted to whiten in the morning, should be taken first; each article being removed in succession from the lye in which it has been soaking, rinsed, rubbed, and wrung, and laid aside until the tub is empty, when the foul water is drawn off.

with Occurrences 7%

Thy wife did lye with one; thou, being dead drunke, Then art no Cuckold though she bee a Punke.

at Occurrences 6%

That which being left undone, Your life lyes at the stake: let 'em be breathlesse, Both brat and mother.

on Occurrences 6%

And Illion lye on heapes, whilst thy pure streames (Divine Scamander) did run Phrygian blood, And heard the pleasant cries of Troian mothers.

by Occurrences 4%

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.

for Occurrences 4%

A thousand Sir, provided any wise Sir, his Land lye for the payment, otherwise Enter Young Loveless and Comrades to them.

before Occurrences 4%

What a lardge passage or cyrcompherence Theise prynces make to come unto the way Which lyes before theire nosses!

between Occurrences 4%

He surveys all the Wonders in this immense Amphitheatre that lye between both the Poles of Heaven, and takes in at one View the whole Round of the Creation.

under Occurrences 4%

He hurriedly directed that the amount should be increased and added: "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.

within Occurrences 3%

I have Thoughts of publishing a daily Paper, which shall comprehend in it all the most remarkable Occurences in every little Town, Village and Hamlet, that lye within ten Miles of London, or in other Words, within the Verge of the Penny-Post.

like Occurrences 3%

lye like a patient

into Occurrences 1%

In the evening after supper had been served and things had somewhat quieted down in the rooms, almost dumfounded by surprise Jim watched Snippy's jocker paint a strong solution of lye into the dreadful soreknown in the hobo vernacular as a "jigger"upon the road kid's arm.

amongst Occurrences 1%

My sceane's doone; The next act lyes amongst them.

en Occurrences 1%

You wet dese cloes en put soft soap in dem, the soap war made outer ash lye en grease den dese cloes war spread on a smooth stump an beat wid paddles till dey war clean.

out Occurrences 1%

They made the lye out of ashes packed in an old barrel that had a hole in the bottom.

through Occurrences 1%

Nay he dooth as if your journey should lye through a fayre Vineyard, at the first give you a cluster of Grapes, that full of that taste you may long to passe further.

to Occurrences 1%

This is somethingOh, I'm impatient to be with herWell, I must in, and make some Lye to Betty for my Absence, and be with you presently.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Triumph, triumph, victorious Soul; The world has not one pleasure more; The rest does lye beyond the pole, And is thine everlasting store.

beneath Occurrences 1%

I wud not, for what lyes beneath the Moone, Be made a wicked Engine to breake in pieces That holy Contract.

from Occurrences 1%

My kind friend, the choreman, let me go with him when he carried the lye from the hopper to the soap fat barrel.

Which preposition to use with  lye