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Example sentences for "lie down"

  • The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep.

  • Lie down and go to sleep; I will work for you.

  • Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop.

  • It is far better to lie down at night beneath an open sky like that yonder--see how bright it is--than to rest in close rooms which are always full of care and weary dreams.

  • His eyes were troubling him so much that he was obliged to lie down in his cabin, and the formal act of possession was performed by a deputy.

  • He'll have no more of the crawling sea that made him suffer so, But he'll lie down on the killing-grounds where the holluschickie go.

  • England's Answer Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.

  • But let us lose no time in idle discourse; lie down in my place, and witness if I do not come off with as much applause.

  • Flora had 'gone to lie down' in the next room, concurrently with which retirement a smell of something to drink had broken out in the house.

  • He needed no second entreaty; and she prepared her father's bed, and begged him to lie down.

  • Come and ask her if she is better; come and ask her to lie down.

  • The Fairy appeared, promised to build the castle, and told Helena to lie down and go to sleep in the meantime.

  • When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin, and leave it lying at the bedside; then the men must rush in, throw the skin into the fire, and stand by till it was entirely burnt up.

  • In one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to stand upright in.

  • Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again.

  • And your uncle Glegg's been too, and he says things must be bought in for us to lie down on, but he must talk to your aunt; and they're all coming to consult.

  • There'll be the same grave made for us to lie down in, and we mustn't be bearing one another ill-will.

  • The queen, too, had gone to rest, and while laying her wearied and heavy head upon the cushions, she tenderly besought both her maids to lie down too.

  • He brought out of the chamber a high, covered basket, grasped the boy, thrust him in, and ordered him to lie down on the bottom of the basket.

  • Then she used to lie down on the bed in her room and cry.

  • The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.

  • I offered to lie down that he might the more conveniently reach my ear, but he chose rather to let me hold him in my hand during our conversation.

  • The girl had been so careful as to put the quilt of her baby’s bed into it, for me to lie down on.

  • They sprang up when they saw us, and right there in the parlor washed our wounds, and made us lie down by the fire.

  • I did not dare to lie down, but sat up trembling and wishing that we might soon come to Riverdale Station.

  • Ned sent him after it two or three times, then he said to Jim, "Lie down," and turned to me.

  • Billy stood behind her till she said, "Lie down.

  • I will just bring my tale down to the present time, and then I will stop talking, and go lie down in my basket, for I am an old dog now, and get tired very easily.

  • There was hardly room for all to lie down at night, and to walk a few hundred feet in any direction would require an hour's patient threading of the mass of men and tents.

  • The room in which we were was barely large enough for all of us to lie down at once.

  • We took our position just on the brow of a hill, and were ordered to lie down, and the rear rank to go for rails, which we discovered a few rods behind us in the shape of a good ten-rail fence.

  • Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  • Orion was exhausted and hungry; he enquired for his mother, and hearing that she had gone to lie down, he went into the dining-room to get some food.

  • He felt her stagger like a drunken creature, and he led her not into the fountain-room but to her bed-chamber, where she only begged to lie down; and hardly had she done so when she was again overcome by sleep.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after speaking; betake themselves; call himself; cannot take; dear people; fall away; had brought from the; judge from; lie down; liege lord; lies between; lies buried; lies down; lying back; minor importance; printed from; sacred prostitution; said park; saving faith; sexual excesses; shall need; should feel; strike them; the darkness; three feet; town yesterday