Lain

Examples

• There was a cry and a rush to rescue, but the right hand which all this while had lain hidden in Moore's breast, reappearing, held out a pistol. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He has lain down once too often. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was the first time I had ever lain down to rest in Satis House, and sleep refused to come near me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He's lain sick, off and on, more than six months, and been orful oneasy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• During his convalescence Tarzan tried to fashion a mantle from the skin of Sabor, which had lain all this time in the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You don't, you can't, you never can, think, how I have lain awake at night and cried for my good Sophronia, my first and only friend! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We met with no Indians, but we found the places on the neighbouring hills where they had lain to watch our proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That is, he had lain down where the ground fell sharply away below the triple belt of wire and shouted up at the rock and earth parapet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There it lay, inert matter, as it had always lain, since the beginning of time, subject to the will of man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Long after Louisa had undressed and lain down, she watched and waited for her brother's coming home. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She went upstairs and took from a locked drawer a little box, out of which she poured a hoard of broad unworn guineas that had lain there many a year. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Have you not tethered a young kid under a tree, lain above it with your rifle, and waited for the bait to bring up your tiger? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His wife tells us that the knife had lain upon the dressing-table, and that he had picked it up as he left the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Those pieces, therefore, must have lain there from that time. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have lain in prison for security, with the place of my confinement kept a secret, lest I should be torn out of it and felled by a hundred blows. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They have made us weary, and in dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think I must have lain in her arms, and heard her singing so to me when I was but a baby. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In the grass at the entrance to her bower she saw the imprint of his body where he had lain all night to guard her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He told me that he had lain unconscious for a time--how long he did not know. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As she had lain at Gerty's side the night before, she had thought of his coming, and of the sweetness of weeping out her pain upon his breast. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It had only lain there a few days. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But Samuel Morse was a painter, and all his career thus far had lain along artistic lines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On mine--the twentieth couch--nothing _ought_ to have lain: I had left it void, and void should have found it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Kelsey