Laid

Examples

• And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He unfolded a paper and laid it upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I laid down Marian's letter, and felt myself--justly felt myself--an injured man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Sherlock Holmes picked them up one by one, and laid them along the edge of the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I cut the cheese into pieces and laid them on the macaroni. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The injured man was laid on his bed, and at Holmes's request I examined him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I brought it out, and laid it ready for him, and my blood again ran cold when he again took me by both hands to give me good night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The cloth was laid by Lavvy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Manson laid a purple finger on her lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• After a while, he laid his hand on Tom's, who was kneeling beside him, and said, Tom! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The first underseas cable was laid in 1851 between France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He laid two of Thomasin's guineas, and the reddleman his two pounds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I laid it there, and he smiled again, and put both his hands upon it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. Plato. The Republic.
• He then laid a telegraph from Washington to Baltimore under the auspices of the United States Government, which after long hesitation appropriated $30,000 for the purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He laid his hand on my shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Andr?Marty put his hand in his pocket and laid the dispatch on the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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