His sister was lying back, her dark hair loose on the pillow, eyes gone soft as she looked at him.
Julia said, "I never thought the day would come when my own sister lied to me."
But how could he tell his son that, somewhere, his big sister might lie in pieces?
Then she stood up and moved slowly to the spot where her sister had lain.
Her sister, finding nowhere to go, lies flatlings on the ground in terror.
"Your sister lied to get your mother into a hospital?"
For the moment, I'll take that answer at face value: Your sister wouldn't lie to you.
My sister was lying on the bed and the doctor asked for a chair.
Don't you think the quarrel between brother and sister may lie there?
He said the young woman's mother and sister had lied when they testified that she was sexually innocent.