There are those here who have lain for years in like uncertainty, and will so wait until death releases them.
Collins shook his head and coldly cursed himself and me for two fools who had lain low, when out in the open together we could have stopped Macartney from getting Dudley, if we couldn't have helped old Thompson.
There was not only no one but that young devil Collins who could have lain in wait for me; but he had had the nerve to walk away on my own road!
So I just told him he was beinglain for and brought him out here.
This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
His bones, mingled indiscriminately with others, had long lain in obscurity in a garret of the College of Medicine when M.
Both these ladies had very considerable talents for political intrigue, and then natural faculties in this way had not lain dormant or been injured by want of practice.
After having lain long out of their money, creditors are usually ready to accept a composition.
Such honours could not have been attained by her had she not been a changed character,--one of those who erewhile "had lain among the pots, but who became like the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold.
The words imply that, owing to the want of this sacrament, they had lain exposed to a reproach from the Egyptians, which was now rolled away.
How can one believe one has ever lain sweating with one's tongue lolling out, and listened to the whining creak of the punkah through nights too deadly hot to sleep in!
Things pile in now that would have lain quiet enough if Walderhurst had not married.
But it contained no living creature, nor any sign that living creature had entered it since she had laindown to rest.
I have been so frightened sometimes in the middle of the night, when I wakened and thought about living to be sixty-five, that I have lain and shaken all over.
I should then have lain down in quiet, Should have slept and been at rest With kings and counsellors of earth, Who built themselves great pyramids; With princes rich in gold, Who filled their houses with silver.
The spies had hardly lain down when Rahab came up to them on the roof and said, "I know that Jehovah has given you the land and that fear of you has seized us and that because of you all who live in the land are losing heart.
But before they had lain down, the people of Sodom, both young and old, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.
And for most of the time between one o'clock and his rising hour of five he had lain in his narrow camp-bed and thought.
Here, on the broad, desk-like arm of his chair, where so many state documents had lain for signature, most of his meals were served.
Just so had it lain in old feudal times, clustered about the church and the Palace, and looking to both for protection.
Mean time, Themistocles had lain with the printer several days; while I impatiently looked for its appearance, but in vain.
The edition which had been printed for publishing had lain in the printer's warehouse, till the time that I had determined against its appearance.
I have always thought Johnston neglected his opportunity there, for he had laincomparatively idle while we got control of both banks of the river above him.
I got my four regiments in parallel lines in a field, the same in which we had camped before the battle, and had lain down to sleep under a tree, when I heard some one asking for me.
The priest had not lain in this situation more than a few seconds, when he began to mutter.
Soon after they took up the presents, which had hitherto lain neglected, and appearing to be greatly pleased with them, departed in a friendly manner.
When she had remained thus for about three quarters of an hour she sprang up, her brain throbbing more feverishly, her body quivering more uncontrollably than when she had lain down.
Most likely it hadlain on the bed, among the strewn things which ferret-face had begun to pack.
He had blown, like life seed, down the dry roads of philosophy and introspection, and had lain for a while by the springs of youth and action until some hidden principle within him had germinated.
As a little girl she had lain watching their fairy dance like fire-flies; later her clear brown eyes became fixed thoughtfully on what seemed strings of jasmine-like blossoms.
At least there had been only one, and that one had been the flat outcrop on which Banker had lain at length and from which he had attempted to shoot De Launay.
The account had been profitable to the bank in the years it had lain idle there, the lady was good to look upon and, even if the account was to be lost, he felt benevolent toward her.
The priest had lain himself down under a hay-stack in the outer yard, and the piper had retired nobody knew where, nor in fact did any body care much about him, as he was but a very indifferent chanter.
He is a cool man, who never acts without weighing his actions, and therein has lain the secret of his success.
The white miners also, who have often lain sick or frost-bitten in their hospitals, except these zealous priests in their too common sneers at religion.
More life for me where He hath lain Hidden, while ye believed him dead, Than in cathedrals cold and vain, Built on loose sands of "It is said.
Indeed I was a woman bearing a head, but one that had oft lain on my shoulder.
I've lain awake at nights trying to find out why it isn't so.
Since his arrival at Gray Forest, it had lain upon the chimney-piece in his bedroom, where he believed it to have been upon the previous night.
The look was what she fancied he might have turned upon her had she lain there dead, ere yet the love of their early and ill-fated union had grown cold in his heart.
Then I find my hot hand in Sir Roger's where it has so often and so familiarly lain before, and I hear Sir Roger's voice addressing me.
It is afternoon, and the morning wind, heaving with too much fragrance, has lain down to sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
