"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The pearl necklace lay gleaming, the spring Sun from the window picking out the gold pierced-work roundels like sparks.
- At this point, after a series of sweeps, it turned off at right angles and pursued a generally southern direction meandering as it went - until it became lost in a small lake of irregular figure (although roughly oval), that lay gleaming near the lower extremity of the vale.
- Beyond the ship, the city of Arrakeen lay cold and gleaming in the light of the northern sun.
- The snow lay pale and gleaming in the moonlight, piled in the aisles between the runways.
- The weapon, which he had kept with him all these years, lay gleaming and polished on the desk top.
- As he struggled up a rise in the road, unaware of the huge diamond which lay gleaming and flashing on the far side in the hazy sunshine, Ramu sighed deeply . . . then stopped, bent over his staff, as his sigh turned into a fit of coughing.
- One hundred triangular tonds, the principal coinage of the southeast, lay golden and gleaming in the tavern's smoky light.
- Friar Alder's large vegetable chopping knives lay sharp and gleaming upon the worn worktable.
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