Ever ready with a liewhen it suited his purpose; but he was far too wise a man needlessly to waste so useful an agent.
She has held it because Magellan sailed west, and so struck the Philippines; but, in fact, those islands lie within the half of the world which the same treaty gave to Portugal.
Martin Mendoza, in his reply to Magellan’s letter, agrees that until the 1st of January they should persevere while the days are long, but urges that the vessels should lie by in the darkness.
And if you'll tell me a lie about one thing, you'll tell me a lie about another, and I don't believe one word of all your explanations about the intrigue between you and Ruth Chester!
You daren't tell me, and you haven't even the face to tell another lie about it!
The very fact that such wonderful possibilities lie before him, and that after all he is but human, should call forth definite prayer for him.
Her fits of temper were so violent and sustained that it is little wonder Nature usually had her way by a general collapse, when the naturally strong woman would lie for days as helpless as a child.
Will you everlie to me about these missionaries again?
Why pay a doctor, or in hospital lie for months, ```When this ointment will cure you by only applying it once?
I have only touched lightly upon a few points which lie on the outskirts of this great question.
The square is full of refuse; heaps of dust and decaying vegetable matter lieabout here and there, under the windows and in front of the doors of the squalid tumble-down houses.
They could not, as a rule, lie ill at home; care and attention would be impossible; and for a sick person the atmosphere would mean certain death.
I will show you the children at school who come daily to their work from the foulest and dirtiest dens in London--that awful network of hovels which lie about the Borough and the Mint.
For days in this foul room the body of a dead baby had to lie because the parish had no mortuary.
Seward, and did lie in wait to murder Andrew Johnson, in pursuance of said conspiracy, and in the purpose and intent thereof, as therein alleged.
Washington City, and within the military department and military lines aforesaid, the said Michael O'Laughlin did, then and there, lie in wait for Ulysses S.
Mr. Cronau evidently is not a seafaring man or he would know that no navigator off an unknown island at night would stand on, even at the rate of one mile an hour, ignorant of what shoal or reefs might lie off the end of the island.
He was always a good sport, but he never would tell a lie to save himself.
In fact, white lies are almost the worse of the two, because a big black lie would scare you, but the little white lie eats into you without you knowing it.
And the poor little silly thought that you got your opinion of a lie by its colour!
The colour does not matter; and so is a lie a bad thing, whether it is little or big, or white or black.
He starts with lie pimples--just little white spots on his language tongue, but they grow until they eat away his best life.
Come, let us wander Over this ghostly sea To that dark cypress-circled island yonder, In whose clear centre we "Will lieand float in phosphorescent ether.
Yet teeming centuries lie slain And trodden in the road to Fars.
They stink horribly, make no earths of their own, lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers; and it is not uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same bed of earths.
Think of being a nut half an inch long, and in that half inch to have the power of becoming the King of the Forest, and then let that power lie unused!
Without a coffin I shall lie And sleep my sleep eternal: Not ev'n a shell--my only chance Of being made a Kernel!
Here I must lie in Honor's bed, That isn't worth a tester!
They wear a corpse-like pallor, and their tongues Are loose, sprawl in their mouths, lie paralyzed Against their teeth, or fall back in their throats Which make them cough and stop for words and close Dry lips with little pops.
But none of us have liked to see, the girl's Good name, integrity of spiritlie In shadow by this story.
Came back to win forgetfulness, had written No word to her since leaving Paris--let Her letters lie unanswered; brought her letters, And gave them to the coroner.
But lie most childish is the Christian myth Of Adam's fall, by which disease and death Entered the world, until the Savior came And conquered death.
You lieand all your course has been a lie: Your words that asked me to be true to you, That I could break your heart.
He prays that the Indian believers may achieve wonderful victories for Baha’u’llah in the months that lie ahead, and prove themselves worthy of the great destiny that beckons to them.
Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear, Lie further off yet; do not lie so near.
For there is a poetic as well as a commonplace side to business; and the man of business genius lights up the humdrum routine of daily life by exploring the boundless region of possibility wherever it may lie open before him.
Fatigue and a slight indisposition had caused him to lie down: and as he had fallen asleep, it was thought best not to awaken him.
For some fault his master has beaten him until the large purple welts lie in meshes across his back from his shoulders to his hips.
I have nothing to forgive," murmured the father, as he drew his daughter towards him, so that her head could lie against his bosom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
