All day long he limped in agony, and camp once made, lay down like a dead dog.
He lay down on the snow and attempted to sleep, but the frost soon drove him shivering to his feet.
He lay down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight.
One day he had worked me hard in every way he could, and when I lay down I was tired, and miserable, and angry; it all seemed so hard.
In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her.
I was led into a comfortable, clean-smelling stall, with plenty of dry straw, and after a capital supper I lay down, thinking I was going to be happy.
I wished for John, but he had eight miles to walk, so I lay down in my straw and tried to go to sleep.
But all this time when they lay down to sleep, Sayf al-Muluk set Daulat Khatun behind him and laid a naked brand at his back, so that, when he turned in sleep the sword was between them.
Then she set it aside and returning to bed, lay down by Badr Basim till morning when he arose and washed his face and asked her leave to visit the Shaykh his uncle.
As he lay down, he raised his eyes to the tree and they met the eyes of the Princess.
The lad answered: 'I watched the date tree till the cocks were crowing and it was getting light; then I lay down for a little, and I slept.
So Halfman came down from the tower, and went on, till he got to a desert place, and as he was very tired, he lay down to sleep.
Undressing, and quivering like an overdriven horse, he lay down on the sofa, drew his greatcoat over him, and at once sank into oblivion.
He lay downon the sofa, and turned to the wall, utterly exhausted.
I lay down for a nap after dinner and what do you think: though Katerina Ivanovna had quarrelled to the last degree with our landlady Amalia Fyodorovna only a week before, she could not resist then asking her in to coffee.
He took off his coat and, wrapping himself in the blanket, lay down on the bed.
I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more.
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
He paced up and down for a long time before he lay down; but, when he did finally lay himself down, he fell asleep.
If he lay down flat, the heavy head showed a tendency to fall back and produce a sense of suffocation.
He walked to a fence a short distance away, thence to his house, 20 yards distant, lay down, and expired in ten minutes.
She took her child, lay down with it for some time, and feeling easier, hailed a cab, drove to a hospital with the child in her arms, and wanted to walk upstairs.
I lay down on the seventh night, still suspicious of something happening; still in my clothes; still with the door locked, the key on the table, and the candle burning.
The next night, overcome with fatigue, I lay down on the bed in my clothes, with the door locked, the key on the table, and the candle burning.
He lay downon the hearthrug, turned up the whites of his eyes, shivered all over, and began to snort.
But it is desired to lay down no proposition which admits of controversy, and it is enough for the present purposes that Si home fait un loyal act, que apres devint illoyal, ceo est damnum sine injuria.
But as the elements are few and permanent, an inclination has been shown to lay down a definite rule, that, in ordinary cases, the building complained of must not be higher than the distance of its base from the dominant windows.
This afternoon, about six, James and I lay down for a nap after our meal.
I slept, but I do not think he so much as lay down on the sofa; chancing to awake once or twice, I heard him pacing about.
Indeed, after we had eaten we lay down and I rejoiced to see that, notwithstanding the state of mental excitement into which the discovery of his wife had plunged him, Ragnall was the first of us to fall asleep.
For a long while she wandered southwards, living on roots and berries, till she came to desert land and at last, worn out, lay down to die.
What became of Marût I do not exactly know, but I think that helay down on the ground.
So he reasoned as he lay down in his comfortable camp.
Feeling around for a place big enough to stretch out on, he lay down.
The moment he lay down, thereby giving up action for the day, all these things weighed upon him like a great heavy mantle of loneliness.
The sun was getting warm when he lay down to sleep, and when he awoke it was sinking in the west.
At first he lay down, panting from his run, by the stream-edge.
Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall asleep, and with the earliest peep of the sun the reeds began to rustle, and he saw that he had blundered into a colony of wild ducks.
Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep.
And they bowed their heads and lay down in the place where they stood.
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