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I doubt if you find any one there who lays it much to heart. [4]
The professor's pipe wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum, and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world, and you can't git him to smoke any other. [5]
The old Master, whose words I have so frequently quoted and shall quote more of, is a dogmatist who lays down the law, ex cathedra, from the chair of his own personality. [6]
From her hand, which she lays upon his head, a mysterious influence steals through him; and he sinks into a dreamy tranquility. [5]
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
When it comes to A 1 right-down solid mysteriousness, he lays over both of them. [5]
Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks--a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hy'roglyphics. [5]
She lays up the bend yonder. [5]
There ain't many that lays over it. [5]
He lays much stress, in the case of plants, on the nature of the soil. [1]
The poet should slavishly obey the laws he lays down for himself of his own free-will, and subordinate to them every word, and yet his matter and his song should seem to float on a free and soaring wing. [10]
For a despotic ruler is like a fiery steed; the latter endeavors to kick him who touches his wounds with intent to heal; the former punishes him who lays a hand on the weak or failing points of his diseased mind. [10]
No, he lays plainly before you the ways and speech and life of a few people grouped in a certain place--his own place--and that is one book. [5]
I have here"--he placed his hand on a book--"the Statutes of Victoria, and it lays down with wholesome severity the law concerning the theft of the affection of a wife, with the accompanying penalty, going as high as twenty thousand dollars. [11]
Little islands, like outworks before it, crouched slumberously to the sea, as a dog lays its head in its paws and hugs the ground close, with vague, soft-blinking eyes. [11]
So it is our youth drops from us, --scales off, sapless and lifeless, and lays bare the tender and immature fresh growth of old age. [6]
And flying in open day in the sight of all men, lays it upon the altar of the sun, and so returns from whence it came. [5]
It lays right on top of a knoll in the dead center of the buryin' ground; and you can see Millport from there, and Tracy's, and Hopper Mount, and a raft o' farms, and so on. [5]
But this is on one condition,--that he never lays the lecture down and lets it cool. [6]
That doctor lays on my mind. [5]
It's the gift of him that lays yonder, cold but joyful. [5]
He lays out new streets and arranges fresh festivals; trade flourishes under his rule, and the people find themselves well off, in spite of the many taxes laid upon them. [10]
He lays low 'n' keeps dark,--and, I tell you, there's a good many of the boarders would like to get into his chamber, but he don't seem to want 'em. [6]
Oatmeal in the morning, as an architect lays a bed of concrete to form a base for his superstructure. [6]
It lays over 'm all, Peters. [5]
His office is like that which naturalists attribute to the bumble-bee,--he lays up little honey for himself, but he conveys the fertilizing pollen from flower to flower. [3]
In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivates it, gathers the crop and stores it away. [5]
For instance: when it lays its hands upon a soldier who has suffered thirty years of helpless torture and makes him whole in body and mind, what is the actual sum of that achievement? [5]
For instance: when it lays its hand upon a soldier who has suffered thirty years of helpless torture and makes him whole in body and mind, what is the actual sum of that achievement? [5]
The captain lays it all to "Exeter Hall influence. [5]
The mason lays his bricks in simple mortar. [3]
He gathers to himself another wife by the same processes, beats and bangs her as a daily diversion, and by and by lays down his life in defending her from some outside harm--it is of record. [5]
Pierre looked at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her enemies, he tried to continue reading. [2]
But weariness returns; He lays the book aside With his glasses upon the bed, And gladly sleeps. [5]
Greatness, near at hand, is startlingly like inconsistency; it seems at moments to vacillate, to turn back upon and deny itself, and thus lays itself open to seemingly plausible criticism by politicians and time servers and all who cry out for precedent. [9]
He lays a hand on her arm. [9]
The expert can generally distinguish it from the precious stone which it is counterfeiting; but if he is in doubt he lays it on a flatiron and hits it with a sledgehammer. [5]
It a'n't the feed,--said the young man John,--it's the old woman's looks when a fellah lays it in too strong. [6]
It lays over 'em all, Peters. [5]
Presently he lays down the glass on the signal-chest, fumbles in his coat, and brings out the little gold brooch I had not set eyes on since Dolly and he and I had stood together on the Betsy's deck. [9]
Dr. Copland lays down rules similar to those suggested by myself, and is therefore entitled to the same epithet for so doing. [3]
He sees that democratic peoples do not desire to go to war, he does not believe that war is necessary and inevitable, he lays himself open to ridicule by financing a Peace Mission. [9]
It lays in de way Sollermun was raised. [5]
Thrue it is, Coolin, that the hand uv mortial man has an ugly way uv squazin' a woman's heart dry whin, at last, to his coaxin' she lays it tinder an' onsuspectin' on the inside grip uv it. [11]
And when it comes to beauty--and goodness, too--she lays over them all. [5]
He is frightened clear through, now, and he lays his long ears down on his back, straightens himself out like a yard-stick every spring he makes, and scatters miles behind him with an easy indifference that is enchanting. [5]
This he illustrates by example, and he also lays down some good, plain, practical rules which "Poor Richard" would have cheerfully approved. [6]
She lays up at the head of the bend. [5]
He says: "Friends all, my poor brother that lays yonder has done generous by them that's left behind in the vale of sorrers. [5]
It is, indeed, a marvelous spectacle, this view for thirty or forty miles, and the simple traveler begins to realize what American enterprise is when it lays itself out for pleasure. [4]

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