Lays

Examples

• The old lady sorrowfully shakes her head, and taking one of his powerful hands, lays it lovingly upon her shoulder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. Plato. The Republic.
• Present-day reform lays a great emphasis upon instruments and very little on the skilful use of them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Only when a person lays in victuals for tea, a person does it with a view--perhaps--more to time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She certainly lays herself out to please, even when she is calling on an old lady. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ay, answered Isaac, but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And Fitz-Jarndyce lays the money out for me to great advantage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Snagsby silently lays trains of gunpowder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Snagsby, touched by the spectacle before him, immediately lays upon the table half a crown, that magic balsam of his for all kinds of wounds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Toller lets him loose every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The act of navigation, it is true, lays no burden upon foreign ships that come to export the produce of British industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In beginning the construction of an alley, the mechanic lays the leveling strips on which the bed is to rest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Vholes, who never gives hopes, lays his palm upon the client's shoulder and answers with a smile, Always here, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The preoccupation with the system lays altogether too little stress on the men who operate it and the men for whom it is run. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He refolds it and lays it in his desk with a countenance as unperturbable as death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The trooper then takes from his breast-pocket a folded paper, which he lays with an unwilling hand at the lawyer's elbow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Squod tacks out, all on one side, to execute the word of command; and the trooper, having smoked his pipe, lays it by. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If a man lays them fairly flat in the dust, they seem immediately to conceive a respect for him; and Legree was one of this sort. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In contrast, reason, or science, lays hold of the immaterial, the ideal, the spiritual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You are always an honourable and straightforward fellow, as far as lays in your power, though a little flighty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the other red, and the third green. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He was five foot nine and a half, and he lays in five-and-twen-ty foot of ground. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The stationer softly lays down another half-crown and asks him what it is that he is sorry for having done. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Chadband, however, having concluded for the present, sits down at Mr. Snagsby's table and lays about him prodigiously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Come back to us before the Pestilence reaches you and lays you dead like the rest! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Allan Woodcourt lays his hand upon his pulse and on his chest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Typist: Murray