"The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices."

The cause lay not in any added strength or stamina.

The cause, he could say with brand-new certainty, lay in their genes.

The cause of it lay glittering before The Shadow's eyes.

He thought dimly that the cause lay in that new trend of the public taste.

The cause lay with another creature, who had secretly entered the room.

The cause of their fear lay outside, in the storm.

The main cause of this decline lay, however, in the economic field.

Those earlier policies assumed that the cause of the imbalance lay at least in part on the consumption side.

But whatever the cause, nature laid on me from birth an utter incapacity to make anything.