There his wounds were looked to, and, as the book telleth, he lay there long, and escaped hard with life.
He fell down in a swoon, and long he lay there as he had been dead.
For full five minutes he lay there staring at nothing.
For a second she felt as if she could seize the cushion which had slipped down off the couch, and smother him as he lay there, refusing, so it seemed to her, to come to consciousness.
He lay there a long time quietly beneath the bank, careful not to attract the attention of the old gardener, who was methodically pushing his machine across and across the lawn.
For full ten minutes he lay there on his face without moving, then rolled over.
I was not sure of several things in the room and as I lay there I said to myself, "Is that really a looking-glass or no?
They had dragged John Thomas up on to the shingle, and he lay there half-dead and fuller of water than was his custom.
So he lay there, in the broken rocks of the ridge, and looked grimly on life.
He lay there, laxed with the over-strain of all this upsetting, but rejoicing placidly in this one more day of life.
Then as I lay there in the darkness, I began to recall how I had been lying with some one across me, and half suffocating me.
The meat itself, as it lay there cut up, looked well enough, in all conscience; no butcher's shop could have exhibited a finer sight than we showed after flaying and cutting up ten dogs.
Quiet and peaceful it lay there, if possible more deeply covered in snow than when we had left it.
We lay there for a couple of days; on account of the short distance from Framheim, provisions, outfit, etc.
What were those two devils after, he wondered as he lay there in the darkness?
Mallalieu had no objection to the cultivation of wisdom--for his own benefit, and he was striving to produce something from the process as he lay there, waiting.
I lay there not so uncomfortably, being aware of a great delight that the tobacco was cut, whether or no, as indeed it was on many plantations, and the King cheated out of great wealth.
Then they fled and, as I lay there alone, I heard their footsteps on the cellar stairs, and presently the dip of the boat as she was launched, and heard it above all the din outside, so keen were my ears for aught that concerned her.
Noel Jaynes might almost have been taken for a good man as he lay there dead.
It seemed to them yet more mysterious than ever, as it lay there illumined by blood-red clouds, like some city of an old-world tale expiating its lusts under a rain of fire.
Gradually the fit subsided, and Jeanne, after a few slight twitches, lay there motionless.
Their own ship might not get safely through; but they left it and went into another ship that lay there, which had neither man nor woman in it.
As he lay there, half waking and half sleeping, he saw two white palfreys come by, drawing a litter, wherein lay a sick Knight.
So Sir Bors went and Sir Lancelot lay on his bed, stark dead, and he smiled as he lay there.
I lay there waiting, my heart beating; I couldn’t bear it.
I lay there and I thought I heard the master shout.
And Vane smiled as he lay there on his back staring up at the overhanging boughs through which now and then he could catch sight of a fine bright ray.
The feverish feeling which had kept him from being cold had now passed off, and he lay there chilled to the bone, aching terribly and half-puzzled at finding himself in so strange a place.
His scarlet robe of office was pulled tightly about him in anticipation of the cold that comes so suddenly with darkness as the sun sets.
I did as he bade, and then together we sought the secret panel through which I had just entered the apartment--the one at the opposite end of the room from that through which the girl had led her savage companions.
There is but one race of true and immortal humans on Barsoom.
It lay there and it lay there, Till it began to rot; His daughter Sallie took it up, And put it in the pot.
He whom we were all so proud of, lay there in the fading light.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lay there" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
