You soon learn by the feel and the lay of the land how high up you are.
The fault with many of the prevalent theories of government and morals lay in their narrow standards of immediate utility, their failure to measure remote spiritual effects.
In Caedmon "the false Archangel and his band lay prone in liquid fire, scarce visible amid the clouds of rolling smoke.
It follows that his imagery and figures layall kinds of knowledge under contribution.
And therewith she took the sword from her love that lay dead, and as she took it, she fell to the ground in a swoon.
High moorland pastures, reclaimed from the Waste, lay on either side.
The rocks were bare around, we were too tired for a pull in the boat, and three mortal hours lay between us and the nearest event in our history.
While the man lay upon his breast he received three passes from the frantic beast before the mantles of the chulos could distract the animal's attention.
I am sure the good-natured ones laughed quietly to themselves at all the unnecessary fuss, while others lay with their heads between their paws and opened their eyes sarcastically at the whole affair.
He must have been rich in arms by the same token, for, besides the well-authenticated one at Abbotsford, I have seen some dozen guns and twice as many daggers and shot-pouches which lay claim to the same honor.
We lay on our backs till the dame brought us the hot potato on a shovel, with oatcake and butter, and with this Highland dinner the last hour came decently to its death.
The question arises, Lay the virtue in the stone, or in the pilgrim's faith?
At a gesture from Lorenzo, Scipio lay down in the sun beside a bush bearing dozens of dark-red roses.
Down the center of the steps ran a purple carpet, and over the carpet lay a wide strip of white linen.
On a table near a window lay that painted skull Ugolini kept toying with.
He knew, from listening to the talk of older men, that the answer to all these yearnings layin women.
King Louis lay prostrate on the floor of the Sainte Chapelle, his face buried in his hands.
They lay without moving, she pleased by the warm weight of him lying upon her, as if it protected her from floating away.
A dozen small porcelain jars layin velvet-lined recesses shaped to hold them.
After the rumh, I lay very still and held my breath.
The dwarf lay curled up on his side with closed eyes on his empty firewood cart.
And yet--the cold hand still lay upon his shoulder.
His shield, square at the top and pointed at the bottom, blazoned with five black eaglets on a gold ground, lay crosswise at his feet.
The Sicilian's hands lay limp in his lap, the hands of a man in pain and unable to do anything about it.
A figure lay with its legs stretched out before it, its back propped against the brown stone.
They rolled together so that they lay side by side in a nest of red and purple cushions.
The strength of Falcone lay in battles, which he painted in all dimensions, from the Sacred books, history, or poems.
Raffaello's strength lay in characterizing aged and nervous frames; he was too hard for delicacy, and in figures of grandeur an exaggerated copy of M.
Not only Howat's father, but Abner Forsythe as well, would search to the end all cause for the founderman's leaving.
He would need all the position, the weight, he could assume; and money of his own.
He stood outside with his head bare and his face lifted to the cool shock of the rain.
Suddenly he was flooded with happiness, as if he had been drenched in sparkling, delightful water.
All the elements of his captivity layso entirely outside of him, beyond his power to measure or comprehend, that a feeling of helplessness came over him.
Howat Penny's watch lay on the table, at his hand, yet it was far distant; he couldn't face the heavy effort of its inspection.
Deeper than his horror, than any fear of physical consequences, lay the instinctive shrinking from the obliteration of his individual being, the loss of personal freedom.
A pervasive stillness settled upon Shadrach; outside the sunlight lay on the hills in a thick, yellow veil; the cool interior held only the familiar crepitation of the old clock above.
Al Schimpf's face was so burdened with rolling chins that he disregarded the customary fashion of whiskers, but a grizzled moustache lay above his well-formed lips, and an imperial divided his heavy, aggressive chin.
It was the Italian servant, Howat decided; and immediately he recognized why he disliked the other--it was because he expressed an aspect of slyness that lay over Ludowika and himself.
His instinct for preservation from any entanglements with life lay dormant before her surrender to influences that left her crumpled, without the slightest interest in any exterior fact.
A shed with a flagging of broad stones lay inside the angle, where a robust girl with an ozenbrigs skirt caught up on bare legs and feet thrust into wooden clogs was scrubbing a steaming line of iron pots.
Susan's wrap lay limply over a chair; the damp bonnet ribbons trailed toward the floor.
Her husband lay with his eyes closed, his head bowed forward on his chest, as if in sleep.
Howat damned such a betrayal with a bitterness whose base lay deeply buried in sex jealousy.
The suffering must be mastered, and he laywith gripping hands, striving by force of will to overcome what he thought of as the brutal play of small, sharp knives.
If the younger did not layoff he would, unquestionably, break.
Howat Penny, in the room where Ludowika's husband lay exhausted in a bed canopied and draped in gay India silk, followed Watlow's actions with a healthy feeling of revulsion.
But between this shattered line and the enemy, who with Afghan suspicion feared that the hasty retreat meant an ambush, and had not moved therefore, lay half a mile of level ground dotted only by the wounded.
The brandy must have affected Dirkovitch, for he lay back in his chair and stared at the ceiling.
The Gurkhas, who should have swung clear of the second division, had stepped on its tail in the dark, but drawing off hastened to reach the next line of attack, which lay almost parallel to us five or six miles away.
Ortheris heaved a big sigh, as he lay on his stomach with his head between his fists.
Benares lay at least ten hours by rail from the cantonments, and nothing in the world could have saved Mulvaney from arrest as a deserter had he appeared there in the apparel of his orgies.
I didn't think he'd have the insolince to disturb the Maharanee av Gokral-Seetarun, so I lay still.
In front lay the cantonment, glaring white under a glaring sun; and on either side ran the broad road that led to Delhi.
But the strange thing av ut was the quiet that lay upon.
It may not have been explained that the littleness of Mildred lay in his being six feet four and big in proportion.
EPI: But I must lay the burden of that upon my servant here.
CHARM, subdue with magic, lay a spell on, silence.
She rose, and looked about for a tree upon which she might lay her child.
The Indian thought he was looking at the Spirit of the ruins; and he lay down again, closing his eyes and invoking his manitou.
The famous city of Paestum lay actually within the borders of Lucania, but all its relations were with Campania, and it may practically be regarded as a Campanian city.
In these tombs, which were like small chambers, the body lay face upwards on the floor, with the vases placed round it; sometimes vases have been found hanging upon nails of iron or bronze, attached to the side walls.
The former estate lay on the left bank, distinguished by a hill named Cucumella.
In other words, the Mycenaean civilisation was driven to seek a new home elsewhere, and to lay the foundations of a new artistic development in the cities of Aeolis and Ionia.
The only help that remained to us lay in our own right hands and in the mercy of divine Providence.
There were scores of ships, some full of stir and activity getting up anchor and making sail, others seeming half asleep as they lay with only a drowsy anchor watch.
I never learned just what lay behind O'Hara's simple thrust, but there was no doubt that it struck a weak link in Gleazen's armor, for he flushed so deeply that we could see it by lantern light.
Below, the log-book lay open on the cabin table at a blank page, on which there was a rough pencil-sketch of coast and a river and an island.
To watch by daylight the terrible cauldron through which we had come by dark was in itself a fearful thing; and beyond it, barely visible through the surf, lay the broken hull of the Adventure.
We'll sail for the Rio Pongo, lay off and on till the first dark night, then take the cargo that a friend of ours will have ready.
Indeed, I found myself watching every point and bend, in hope that the mission lay just beyond it.
But coming on board as the owner's nephew, with a stateroom at my command, I lay and suffered untold wretchedness, now thinking that I was getting better, now relapsing into agonies that seemed to me ten times worse than before.
Then off went Higgins as a lay preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Annandale, Minnesota.
He saw also, that the vital principle in Parliament lay in the House of Commons.
An arrow pierced the unhappy Harold in the eye, entering the brain, and the head which had worn the crown of England ten short months lay in the dust, William, with wrath unappeased, refusing him burial.
They were Anglo-Saxons, and perfectly understood the long struggle for civil rights which lay behind them.
Apart from such decided lay patrons as Addison, Child's could also claim a large constituency among the medical and learned men of the day.
As the one hope of reform lay in an appeal to arms, the discontent broke into open revolt.
