In civil quarrels," he wrote to Cicero, "we ought to go with the most honest party, as long as the contest lies within constitutional limits.
It lies between two small rivers, the Ose and the Oserain, both of which fall into the Brenne, and thence into the Seine.
The art of navigation lies in trimming to the storm.
Being but eight degrees south of the equator, the town liescontinually under the burning rays of a tropical sun.
It lies on the surface of the ground to a depth of from one to three feet; is dug up and conveyed in barrows to a cleared spot, where it lies in heaps, to be sifted.
The Indians said it was the Santa Cruz, and that it led directly to "Holland;" but their lies about that same Dutch land had long since destroyed all faith in their words.
II See, clear the pathway open lies That upward leads to Paradise, Where stands the Tree of Life; And freely may I enter in, Whence I was driven by mortal sin, And worsted in the strife.
An angel near declares: "There lies the stone that barred the tomb, No longer now its solemn gloom Your Lord and Master shares.
The field lies untilled for any one who will work it.
The artist dressmaker is the manufacturer's critic, his guide, philosopher, and friend, and in this close connection lies one of the secrets of artistic French dressmaking.
The old chateau lies on the edge of the Bois, an unimposing building promising little, and, so far as the building itself is concerned, fulfilling its promises.
The long night lies beyond the sunset, and Paris is at its best under artificial light.
The courselies out near St. Germain, on the old farm of M.
The fourth division is called the Pacific Quadrant, since ocean alone lies to the north of it.
Just outside the western limit of the Australian Quadrant lies Gaussberg, discovered by a German expedition under Drygalski in 1902.
Josephine Seamount is the largest of the group and lies along an east-west topographic trend (the Azores-Gibraltar Ridge).
The Puerto Rico Trench develops rapidly east of Navidad Bank; it lies between the outer ridge and the continental slope or landward trench slope of the Greater Antilles.
The "Gully", a large submarine canyon shown on navigational charts, lies about 25 miles east of Sable Island.
Most of the Bermuda Rise lies below the depth of 2500 fathoms, and thus the sediment ranges from foraminiferal clay through red clay with a predominance of red clay.
Between the outer margin of the High Fractured Plateau provinces and the level of the ocean-basin floor lies a succession of parallel provinces, known as the Upper Step, the Middle Step, and the Lower Step.
At the base of the Blake Escarpment lies an enclosed basin, and north of Puerto Rico the sea floor drops almost directly to the floor of a marginal trench.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is that portion of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge system which lies within the limits of the Atlantic Ocean.
Iberia Abyssal Plain which lies west of the northern two-thirds of the Iberian Peninsula.
Thus an abyssal plain liesentrapped in the Hispaniola-Caicos Channel and the southeastern portion of the Old Bahama Channel.
The observer sits or lies on a sloping wooden arrangement, which he can wheel to any part of the observatory as the position of the telescope may require.
The scene mostly liesin the moors, and at the touch of the authoress a Scotch moor becomes a living thing, strong, tender, beautiful, and changeful.
Stormy weather and in the rainy season we lay snug under the shelter I had made out of the old canoe, and I used to tell him lies about my friends at home.
In the true humanity of the book lies its justification, the permanence of its interest, and its indubitable triumph.
I know what 'tis to be a youth As yet untouched by love; I know what charm Lies in the magic of a woman's eyes For a young virgin heart.
We were late, Debating of the coming festival, And how my lord the Prince, having ill news From Bosphorus, where the King his sire lies sick, Can bear no part in it.
Dost thou know indeed That I am prisoned here, while my loved father Lies on the bed of death?
I grieve to hear That he lies sick, and would rejoice to tend him As if I were a daughter.
Consider our poor country's gaping wounds, And what a remedy liesto our hands.
There lies my duty clear, and I will do it; I fear not for the rest.
The distinguishing feature of this novel, however, lies not so much in its wealth of portraiture or freshness of humour as in a certain passionate glow of youth, which emanates from the heroine, and seems to warm the story through and through.
Something of the same idea lies at the root of much in Miss Hennell's mystical disquisitions.
This cold, negative nature lies with a kind of withering blight on the susceptible Gwendolen.
A sociological demonstration lies in the establishment of an accordance between the conclusions of historical analysis and the preparatory conceptions of biological theory.
In the front of the inquiry lies one main division, that, namely, between speculative and practical knowledge.
Pompeii lies to the south-east from the mountain, and Herculaneum to the south-west.
No," said Philippe; "the lava that lies spread out over the bottom of the crater has cooled so as to be hard enough to walk upon, though you can see that it is red hot in the cracks.
Beyond the low hedge lies pasture bright with buttercups, where the cattle feed.
All day long this world lies open to me; ay, and other worlds also, if I will but have it so; and when night comes I pass into the kingdom and power of the dark.
It lies here ready to our hand, this life of adoration which we needs must live hand in hand with earth, for has she not borne the curse with us?
He is not troubled by doubts or regrets, for the path of the just liesplain before his face.
He is my friend of friends as he lies opposite my window in his alabaster sleep, clad in pontifical robes, with unshod feet, a little island of white peace in a many-coloured marble sea.
True, people say that it has a beginning and that its source lies yonder, in the mountains, but that is not at all so certain.
In either case, the images will be distorted and if we are questioned, we will reply with lies uttered in all good faith: "This is so because it ought to be so.
His originality lies in his having been the most sombre.
And to keep her from quitting them and going home, they lied through thick and thin to her, about her father and about myself, and backed up their lies with forgeries.
Your wife being soft—or credulous, if you like it better—she sucks in a lot of lies against you.
And he had made the ground ready for his lies to grow, by a black mysterious note beforehand, signed—“A well-wisher in Sunbury.
Words may help him very little; commonplace exhortations are a weariness to the worn-out soul; he lies at the bottom of his own distress, and does not want it probed or touched.
My only hope lies in perfect quiet; therefore she must not write to me, and I must not hear a word, even from yourself, about her.
You must not do that, with these chaps in the house, or the Lord knows what a lot of lies will get about.
The shame lies rather—” “Look sharp, old chap; I am as dry as a herring.
And when I read aloud that wicked letter, in the presence of Kitty and my uncle, the next day, there were times when I longed to have him by the throat, and prevent more lies coming out of it.
I should have rushed up to every one, who had any motive for deceiving her, and taken them by the throat, and wrung their wicked, murderous lies out.
What a bushel of lies we have had from that old Emmy!
But when my worst enemy lies on the ground, I would rather lift him up, than walk over him.
Here it lies quite motionless and undergoes the final transformation.
But not a thought of devotion lies in that cruel little head.
Finally, it closes the end of its little tube and lies quite still.
Here lies the meaning and the complete antithesis represented by Christos and Satan.
In the mingling of the real and the apparently unreal, in the dream state, while the experience itself is always real to the dreamer, lies undoubtedly the source of many beliefs that influence the lives of men.
The most extraordinary feature of this indescribable satire lies in Chapter XII, "THE WAGES Of SIN IS DEATH," contributed by the TK.
This is where the "Alchemy of the Great Work" comes in, and herelies the beginning of Adeptship, the preparation for the "Great Work.
I refer to this here for a special purpose, which involves and lies at the foundation of all other issues and considerations.
It lies at the foundation like man's self-conscious identity, and can neither be explained nor explained away.
I hold that herelies the origin of belief in the existence of a soul in man, separable from the body, and the confines of matter, space, and time, in an actual experience of every individual.
Here lies the scientific explanation of the "Fall of Lucifer," portrayed in some form in the pantheons and mythologies of every philosophy and religion known to man.
Here lies the difficulty, often the impossibility, of the teacher or the Master, in imparting his knowledge.
All actual progress of man up to the present time lies along these lines.
As we have already said, the real commercial value of the Parana lies in the peculiarity of its banks, which make it along its whole course a series of natural quays.
These figures give some indication of the vast agricultural future which lies open before this Province.
I should have read very dry and difficult books: for example, though nothing would have induced me to read the budget of stupid party lies that served as a text-book of history in school, I remember reading Robertson's Charles V.
The mischief that it does at present is produced by our efforts to ignore it, or to smother it under a heap of sentimental liesand false pretences.
Clearly it would not be wise of the doctor to say it, because optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
The danger lies in assuming that we shall get on any better.
You and I have somehow found each other in all this wilderness of lies and affectations, and we're going to be friends, aren't we?
In the difference between the counterpoint of Bach and the counterpoint of Wagner lies the difference between two epochs separated by a long period of time.
In wisdom, perchance, lies the final solution of the problem of life.
For deep down in the core of that rose there lies a soul that permeates it all--a longing, restless soul, one moment revealing a heaven that the next is shut out in dark despair.
Below there exists my barber, and farther down that black pit of an elevator lies lunch, or a cigar, or a possible cocktail, if the mental combination should prove unpleasant.
That is a great day when a man comes into his own, no matter how paltry the pittance may be the gods have given him--when he comes to know just how far he can go, and where lies his path of least resistance.
But between us and them lies a space of years--life.
When wounded, or attacked by wolves or dogs, he lies down, and scientifically covers his back by rapid fencing with his pointed horns.
This is not true, however; he uses his tail, when he lies down, to cover himself.
The real trouble lies with man, who is unable to understand the language spoken or uttered by the animals.
When at length he turned to leave the spot the tiny grave was marked by a pine slab, on which was pencilled, "Here lies the germ of a resolve.
The lies had stuck in his throat at first, as he was a naturally truthful man, but they were coming along glibly now.
When I left the old man, after he had choked me with the wildest lot of lies you ever heard, I was sad enough for tears.
Yet he realizes that nothing can be gained by such a step since, if his future lies with the princely Yadavas, any mingling with the cowherds will merely disrupt this final role.
She fears an attack of Love upon you, and lies away hidden; She wastes away, Krishna, parted from you.
She who with the wearer of the garland lies in dalliance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
