"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Galante lay placidly to anchor.
- In the meantime Mr Pecksniff, having received from a sharp angle in the bottom step but one, that sort of knock on the head which lights up, for the patient's entertainment, an imaginary general illumination of very bright short-sixes, lay placidly staring at his own street door.
- She lay placidly on her stomach as Kattina straddled her buttocks, stroking her spine and shoulder blades with her long fingers while sometimes throwing herself forward to lie across Jacqui's slim back and nuzzle her neck or her ears.
- Today, on their second visit, they lay placidly on their backs in the altogether on a bright blue blanket whose black-and-gold-flecked mica chips absorb every ray of the broiling sun.
- The snake, however, lay placidly on the road, too tired to squeeze anybody.
- The young man lay placidly back down.
- Ruth looked down fondly at Lilian, who lay placidly on her lap sucking her thumb, and she smiled.
- A light birch canoe that lay placidly on the water, was reflected in its minutest fibres with a fidelity unsurpassed by the most exquisitely polished mirror.
- To all appearances Muriela lay placidly on the dais, eyes closed as if in slumber.
- Some were still unconscious while the others sat or lay placidly as though drained of energy.
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