401 Verbs to Use for the Word lay

If I find that you have told me a lie, I will kill him.

You see he swore in the Senate that he beheld Drusilla mounting heavenwards, and all he got for his good news was that everybody gave him the lie: since when he solemnly swears he will never bear witness again to what he has seen, not even if he had seen a man murdered in open market.

Bright was the day, and on the spreading trees The frolic citizens of forest sung Their lays and merry notes on perching boughs; When suddenly appeared in the east Seven mighty eagles with their talons fierce, Who, waving oft about our consul's head, At last with hideous cry did soar away.

Lots of people go crazy in Alaska every yearvarious causes, but it's chiefly from believing their own lies.

For, "The king," saith the psalmist, "shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped."

I've been an ass and an idiot, but I'm done with living a lie.

The country where you may have sight and touch of that which is written lies between the high Sierras south from Yosemiteeast and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert.

I saw her lie, and stayed this chariot; And raiment wrapt on her dead limbs, and beat My breast for her.

And therefore it is not allowable to utter a lie with this view, that we may deliver one from some peril.

Under her roof the scholar completed his education; the historian sought and found the materials for his history; the minstrel chanted lays of mingled piety and love for his loaf and raiment; the sculptor carved in wood, or cast in silver, some popular saint; and the painter gave the immortality of his colours to some new legend or miracle.

"Well, Beth?" "Perhaps it will be worth while; but if I go into that woman's house I'll be acting a living lie.

These travellers, to get raiment or a meal, will not stick to invent any lie.

And clouds are between him and the Father, and he is deceived with false gods and false teachers, who make him to love a lie."

And I added a lie, saying: "I am trying, on behalf of an aunt of hers, to discover her.

The bulbul sits on every spray, And pours his soft melodious lay; Each rural spot its sweets discloses, Each streamlet is the dew of roses; And damsels, idols of the heart, Sustain a more bewitching part.

"But, Mercy, you don't know the lay o' the rooms, child.

"So oftenI knowthat you were, against your will and reason, by dint of the very iteration of it, coming to accept that lie as a truth whose power there was no contesting.

Because, I presume, pride is begotten and born of a lie, and God hates a lie, because all lies lead to ruin, and this lie of pride above all.

No personal or social emergency can justify a lie, whatever may be its apparent gain, or whatever harm may seem to be involved in a refusal to speak it.

" "Verily, youth, methinks dost lie, for I have heard this outlaw is beyond all men wild and fierce and weaveth him demoniac spells and enchantments most accurst, whereby he maketh gate and door and mighty portcullis to ope and yield before his pointed finger, and bolt and bar and massy wall to give him passage when he will, as witness the great keep of Garthlaxton that he did burn with hellish fire.

Their sons are sacrificed to a lie, for if you assert what you doubt, it is a falsehood, and they offer up their own children to prove this lie to themselves; and now that our beloved have died for it, far from confessing it, we hide our heads still deeper not to see what we have done.

In his arm-chair, warmly cushioned, In the quiet earned by labor, Life's reposeful Indian summer, Grandpa sits; and lets the paper Lie upon his knee unheeded.

I hear a soft melodious lay, The winds are with their tops at play; While moonbeams through their branches stealing, Wake up a wild romantic feeling.

"I am not interested in hearing your lies!

As to his account of himself, I read a lie in those tell-tale eyes all the time that he was talking.

401 Verbs to Use for the Word  lay