At the front of the house he lay close beside the wall, beneath the broken window, and listened.

A loose sheet of paper lay close beside the pen.

At last he lay close beside one of the huts which was to be the first to claim his attention.

"He" lay too close before their eyes to be discovered fully.

But her destination today was not the house, nor anything that lay close beside it.

Cape Town is the kind of horse who can lay close depending on the pace.

The head lay very close to the garden wall, which was still buried in snow but beginning to break through the drifts at either side.

It lay close beside the body, near what little was left of the head.

I had to ask it; the stone lay so very close to our feet.

The towel was big enough for two, so long as they lay very close to each other.