The manuscript, clean white Hammermill Bond with the title page topmost, lay on her lap.

He took me into one of the many libraries of the palazzo, messy rooms in which the manuscripts lay helter-skelter, and the books in stacks.

From the 1920s, the manuscript lay unknown in the Paris apartment of a collector of manuscripts and his heirs.

The manuscript lay in a heap of several hundred pages.

The manuscript lay almost a hundred years on a closet shelf until it was discovered and published.

His manuscript lay there in case of accident, but the accident did not happen.

Every manuscript that he had had out now lay under the table.

The manuscript of songs and poems from Benediktbeuren probably laid hidden in the monastery's library for quite some time.

Work became impossible for Peake; his manuscripts lay forgotten.

The manuscript lay neatly piled on a chair beside him.