Alas, shee hath from France too long been chas'd, And all her Husbandry doth lye on heapes, Corrupting in it owne fertilitie.
My Lord high Constable, the English lye within fifteene hundred paces of your Tents Const.
Howbeit, they would hold vp this Salique Law, To barre your Highnesse clayming from the Female, And rather chuse to hide them in a Net, Then amply to imbarre their crooked Titles, Vsurpt from you and your Progenitors King.
The French aduis'd by good intelligence Of this most dreadfull preparation, Shake in their feare, and with pale Pollicy Seeke to diuert the English purposes.
The King is a good King, but it must bee as it may: he passes some humors, and carreeres Pist.
Water was poured on the ashes, and the lye trickled from an outlet cut in the groove.
The boiling of the lye and grease was an ill-smelling process, which was also carried on out of doors, and required an enormous amount of labor and patience.
Then remove it to others, that lye by them; and pull the Papers from the first, and turn them upon new Papers.
Then lay it in a fit vessel, with a flat bottom (pipkin or kettle as you have conveniency) that will but just contain it, but so that it may lye at ease.
You must put no more Collops into one pan, at once, then meerly to cover it with one Lare; that the Collops may not lye one upon another.
One rule may be safely trusted--If your lye will bear up an egg, or a potato, so that you can see a piece of the surface as big as ninepence, it is just strong enough.
A gentleman in Missouri advertises that he had an inveterate cancer upon his nose cured by a strong potash made of the lye of the ashes of red oak bark, boiled down to the consistence of molasses.
If you are troubled to get soft water for washing, fill a tub or barrel half full of ashes, and fill it up with water, so that you may have lye whenever you want it.
The lye must be prepared and tried in the usual way.
Keep it dripping till the color of the lye shows the strength is exhausted.
A gallon of strong lye put into a great kettle of hard water will make it as soft as rain water.
In case of any scratch, or wound, from which the lockjaw is apprehended, bathe the injured part freely with lye or pearl-ash and water.
If your lye is not strong enough, you must fill your barrel with fresh ashes, and let the lye run through it.
We told them that lye that they should not have suspicion of us.
I foretold him what came to pass, that hee would lye a long while in New England for passage.
In this meane tyme, gif ye lye by as neutrallis, quhat wilbe the end, ye may easellie conjecture.
Well, your imprisonment shall not be long, I will deliuer you, or else lye for you: Meane time, haue patience Cla.
Vp with my Tent, heere wil I lye to night, But where to morrow?
And Mr. Wickham to goe up to lye at Miaco or Osekay, till other occation busynes be to employ hym in.
Gorezano, our quandum jurebasso, came with our hostes man and shewed me a letter, wherin a frend of his wrote hym that the Duch host at Miaco was put into prison for letting Albartus lye so long in his howse, contrary to the Emperours edict.
Evaporate this lye till it be capable of bearing a new-laid egg.
Filter the liquor in order to separate the earthy parts; and evaporate your lye to dryness, stirring it incessantly; and you will have a yellowish-white Salt.
The Arsenical vapours being conducted into this passage, adhere both to the sides thereof and to the joists that lye across it.
When the liquor which hath yielded Vitriol is become thick, and no more vitriolic crystals shoot in it, they add an eighth part of its weight of putrefied urine, mixed with a lye made of the ashes of green wood.
After this they steep the calcined stone in water, which dissolves the Alum it contains, and to this solution they add a certain quantity of a lye made of the ashes of sea-weeds.
With this lye Soap is usually made; because the acuated Alkali contained in it hath a much greater effect on Oils than any other kind of Alkali.
It is with a view to free it from these matters, that the waters impregnated with Alum are mixed with a certain quantity of the lye of some fixed Alkali, or with putrefied urine, which contains much volatile Alkali.
Besides, as the lye would dissolve some part thereof, it would thence acquire a saponaceous quality, and so lose much of its caustic nature.
You need only pour into it a little Oil of Tartar per deliquium; or, if you have not that at hand, a lye of the ashes of green wood.
When you perceive they begin to unite, pour into the mixture thrice as much of the first strong lye as you took of Olive Oil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
