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Example sentences for "laying down"

  • Baucher's plan of laying down a horse explained.

  • The difference between this and Rarey's plan of laying down a horse is as great as between Franklin's kite and Wheatstone's electrical telegraph; and foremost to acknowledge the American's merits was M.

  • That power He Himself proclaims in the gospel, saying, "I have the power of laying down my life, and I have the power of taking it again.

  • The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

  • The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

  • We found that letter upon him, noble sir, and that," he continued, laying down on the table two pieces of paper.

  • On laying down my work on paper, I found we had made a most favourable cut on the way homewards, our old bivouac of the 21st inst.

  • The day being Sunday, I gave the party another day of rest, and took that opportunity of laying down on my map, the recently discovered rivers and water-courses.

  • These simple precautions to hasten maturity often suffice in climates where the danger of winter-killing is but slight, but where danger is imminent the vines must be covered either by wrapping or by laying down.

  • Laying down must be preceded by pruning, after which the arms and trunk are loosened from the wires and bent to the ground.

  • A grape-grower in New York who has had much experience in laying down vines in a vineyard of some thirty or forty acres says that the work may be done at a cost of $6 an acre at the average wage paid for farm-labor.

  • By laying down is meant that the vines must be placed on the ground and there be protected by earth and snow or other covering.

  • Figure 155 shows a method of laying down blackberries, as practiced in the Hudson River valley.

  • England and France, laying down of the submarine electric telegraph between, 568.

  • Electric telegraph, laying down of the, from England to France, 568.

  • But, in spite of himself, he would find himself listening for the sound of cannon, laying down his ax or his bush knife in a panic and running back to the shore to make sure that nothing had happened in the hour he had been gone.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animated nature; chap like; cream soup; fever bird; find anything; flat rock; great concourse; greater portion; just ahead; keep her; know something; laid them; laying down; laying duties; laying hold; laying them; los ojos; love the; mes enfants; narrow gorge; then only; three tons; uninhabited note; usually seen; west side