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Sentences starting with lie

Lie down a little while, aunt, you are very pale. [10]
Lie still, stay like that then, I won't touch you. [2]
Lie me no lies, sir priest, play me no deceptions!--I am not in the humour for it. [5]
Lie down Argus, are you crazy, old fellow? [10]

Sentences ending with lie

It rests with you to give it all the lie. [11]
Well, where do you think the odds lie? [11]
Honest, now, do you live in a scow, or is it a lie? [5]
En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. [5]
What would George Washington do, the father of his country, the only American who could not tell a lie? [5]
At first I was strongly interested in the tree, for I was told that it was the renowned peepul--the tree in whose shadow you cannot tell a lie. [5]
What you did was kindly and courteous and beautiful; I would have done it myself; but it was a lie. [5]
But I don't want to find out it's a lie. [5]
Last November he walked five blocks in a rainstorm, without any shelter but an umbrella, and cast his vote for Grant, remarking that he had voted for forty-seven presidents--which was a lie. [5]
Would you have voted what you felt and knew to be a lie? [7]

Short sentences using lie

You can't lie sniveling there. [5]
Clams always lie quiet. [5]
Semestre had told no lie. [10]
It was a lie. [5]
It _was_ a lie. [5]
A journalist cannot lie. [5]
This was the lie. [4]
It is no lie. [11]
I acted no lie. [11]
He let them lie. [11]

Sentences containing lie two or more times

But lie down, you must lie down a little. [11]
Don't you know the difference between a lie that helps and a lie that hurts? [5]
The only difference that I know of between a silent lie and a spoken one is, that the silent lie is a less respectable one than the other. [5]
Why did I say 'Je vous aime' * to her, which was a lie, and worse than a lie? [2]
There is a prejudice against the spoken lie, but none against any other, and by examination and mathematical computation I find that the proportion of the spoken lie to the other varieties is as 1 to 22,894. [5]
Well, in his lordship's dungeon there they lie, who saith there shall they lie and rot till they confess. [5]
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else; and I do not like the lie of bravado, nor the lie of virtuous ecstasy; the latter was affected by Bryant, the former by Carlyle. [5]
It was a lie; a deliberate, awful lie, that never injured anybody but himself John knew he was not wicked enough to tell a lie to injure anybody else. [4]
I sometimes think it were even better and safer not to lie at all than to lie injudiciously. [5]
Not to lie is perhaps as much a matter of insular pride as of morals; to lie is unbecoming an Englishman. [4]

More example sentences with the word lie in them

It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
But I'll tell you this: they'll take his pay and lie to him about whatever's goin' on inside the house. [11]
Let me help you into the house, and lie down on the cushion for a time. [10]
Look at it, ye who would know what is the tolerance, the freedom from prejudice, which can suffer such an incarnation of all that is devilish to lie unharmed in the cradle of Nature! [6]
Stephen Brice, who would not lie to others, lied to himself. [9]
The only danger would lie in the crowd discovering us in this holy spot, where the Muezzin calls to prayer, and giving us what for, before he could interfere. [11]
They said we would lie as well as at a hotel. [5]
Sellers, if you would go into politics, if I had you for a colleague, we should show Calhoun and Webster that the brain of the country didn't lie east of the Alleganies. [5]
But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
Are those countries working that kind of lie, day in and day out, in thousands and thousands of varieties, without ever resting? [5]
The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
And mark my words: A lie stains the soul, but doubt eats into it. [10]
Why should we without shame help the nation lie, and then be ashamed to do a little lying on our own account? [5]
Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
If it is winter and you have a friend, you lie close. [11]
They say that Willy is in Heaven now, and that it's always summer there, and yet I'm sure he grieves when I lie down upon his garden bed, and he cannot turn to kiss me. [12]
Second, those who will take the oath and be discharged and whose homes lie safely within our military lines. [7]
When a man will not speak, will not lie to gain a case for his lawyer--or save himself, there is something! [11]
Oh, and he will not speak!--whereas, the healing, the solace that lie in a blessed swift death--" "What _are_ you maundering about? [5]
It didn't matter.--Yet, why should she lie to herself? [11]
To lie a whole day in sight of the Acropolis, and yet be obliged to go away without visiting Athens! [5]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
And all this while the poor lie in London streets upon pallets of straw, or else in the mire and dirt, and die like dogs! [4]
But the Serapeum, where the sick lie awaiting divine or diabolical counsel in dreams--Galen will go there. [10]
The day came when we had checked off the Posilipo, and the Grotto, Pozzuoli, Baiae, Cape Misenum, the Museum, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the moderns buried at the Campo Santo; and we said, Let us go and lie in the sun at Sorrento. [4]
I sleep here; when I lie down on my couch take your place on the divan yonder. [10]
But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
But again there were days when he did nothing but lie on the skins at the hut's door, or saunter in the shadows and the sunlight. [11]
Higbie and I went to bed at midnight, but it was only to lie broad awake and think, dream, scheme. [5]
When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. [5]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
There was nothing weak in the deep organ tones that responded: "You know it's a lie as well as I do, old friend. [5]
Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true. [5]
For often, as we walked together through the yellow fields of an evening, it had been on my tongue to confess the lie Mr. Allen had led me into. [9]
Surely self-preservation, that was the first law; surely no known code of human practice called upon him to share the daily crimes of any living soul--it was a daily repetition of his crime for this traitor to carry on the atrocious lie of patriotism. [11]
What a woman was she whose ashes lie there! [4]
The old physician was not dissatisfied with the condition of his patient, but ordered the widow to lie down for a time and to leave the care of her for a few hours to her young friend. [10]
Why, that he was absolutely astonished that he had a son who had the chance to tell a lie and didn't. [5]
Their mere howdy-do was a lie, because they didn't care how you did, except they were undertakers. [5]
Reeder said it was a d---d lie, that Williams had no show at all. [5]
The commonest sagacity warns me that I ought to tell the customary pleasant lie, and say I tore myself reluctantly away from every noted place in Palestine. [5]
To scorn the voice of the Divinity is a sin, and he who lends his ear to a lie is far from the truth. [10]
Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties. [14]
Between that first utterance and the last time it will be uttered on this earth--ah, think how many moldering ages will lie in that gap! [5]
The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said. [6]
Others he called upon to lie in the hot spring at the foot of the hill for varying periods, before the laying on of hands, and these also, crippled, or rigid with troubles' of the bone, announced that they were healed. [11]
I often lie upon that soft robe of sable--ay, sable, Master Robert--and think of him who gave it to me. [11]
I have taken upon myself no less than they, but my lie will surely be forgiven me, if it is not reckoned against them that they shed blood. [10]
When I wake up, he still sit there, but his head lie in his arms. [11]
So we took up the anchor and moved outside, to lie a dozen hours or so, taking in supplies, and then sail for Constantinople. [5]
It was as unmitigated a lie as was ever uttered. [5]
Others would be unfaithful; and many would deceive, and lie. [5]
He has not undertaken to say that Trumbull tells a lie about these words being stricken out, but he is really, when pushed up to it, only taking an issue upon the meaning of the words. [7]
Rostov was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie. [2]
Paula told the truth, and never, never told a lie, not even for Hiram's sake. [10]
It had been true once, but was now a pernicious and abominable lie. [6]
But I have trained him; and now it fairly breaks Mrs. Clemens's heart to hear George stand at that front door and lie to the unwelcome visitor. [5]
There was a tradition that he had a wife somewhere--based upon wild words he had once said when under the influence of bad liquor; but he had roared his accuser the lie when the thing was imputed to him. [11]
As the other took out his watch, Shon said firmly but quietly: "Pierre, I gave you the lie to-day concerning me wife, and I'm here, as I said I'd be, to stand by the word I passed then. [11]
The favorite had told his master a lie, and the suicide of the steward's daughter was a pure romance. [10]
You wouldn't lie to you' old Mammy? [5]
I am going to work when we get on the hill-till then I've got to lie fallow, albeit against my will. [5]
It was reported to us that your powers could not attain unto their full strength until the morrow; but--" "Your Majesty thinks the report may have been a lie? [5]
It comes natural to them to lie and cheat in the first place, and then they go on and improve on nature until they arrive at perfection. [5]
In a word, to tell me a lie--a silent lie. [5]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
I now propose to show that it would produce a peculiar and permanent hardship upon the citizens of those States and Territories in which the public lands lie. [7]
Smith ordered him to send a boat; Chambers replied that his boat was split, which was a lie, and told him to come off in the Frenchman's boat. [4]
You don't want to see, then you won't know, and you won't need to lie. [11]
It enables him to see with the mind's eye through the opaque tissues down to the bone on which they lie, as if the skin were transparent as the cornea, and the organs it covers translucent as the gelatinous pulp of a medusa. [3]
And now list to me; aw'm not goin' to eat dirt, and aw'm goin' to give you the lie, and aw'm goin' to break your neck, if I swing for it to-morrow, Jim Faddo. [11]
Nothing, it seems to me, can be less excusable than a lie told to divine Caesar's face! [10]
It was sweet to lie thus, to possess, as her very own, these precious, passionate memories of life lived at last to fulness, to feel that she had irrevocably given herself and taken--all. [9]
I should have to lie in the undertaker's cellar until the ship would remove me and it is dark down there and unpleasant. [5]
Help me--I want to lie down! [5]
You were about to lie again. [5]
Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors! [2]
Now, I wish to know what the Judge can charge upon me, with respect to decisions of the Supreme Court, which does not lie in all its length, breadth, and proportions at his own door. [7]
I'll never lie to her; and I'll do something else--something else. [11]
I am required to furnish a statement of the indebtedness under which I lie to you gentlemen for your help in enabling me to earn my living. [5]
Had I desired to feast my eyes on the castle in flames, it would, perhaps, now lie in ashes. [10]
I went on to explain how Mr. Carvel had fallen ill, and was like to die; and how Mr. Allen, taking advantage of his weakness when he rose from his bed, had gone to him with the lie of having converted me. [9]
If I ventured to describe the attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
How is it to be done so effectually that I may lie down and say 'They have had their deserts. [10]
One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet one hates to lie. [6]
I was so tired last night that I thought I would lie abed and rest, to-day; but I couldn't resist. [5]
He sat there through the night, though they tried to make him lie down. [11]
Will she pass through it unharmed, or wander from her path, and fall over one of those fearful precipices which lie before her? [6]
During two or three days, not one of them was able to do more than lie down or walk about; yet so effective was the arnica, that on the fourth all were able to sit up. [5]
In twice a thousand years shall the unholy invention of man labor at odds to beget the fellow to this majestic lie! [5]
Fine lie, I thought, and I froze him. [5]
To listen to those witnesses lie about each other on the stand is better than the theatre. [9]
On his way thither, feeling a certain faintness, he turned aside into a small house whose occupants he knew, and asked to sit down for a brief rest, and then, as the faintness increased, to lie undisturbed on the lounge for a few minutes. [4]
And yet, if this was his last journey, it seemed not an inappropriate ending for the old woodsman to lie down and give up the ghost in the midst of the untamed forest and the solemn silences he felt most at home in. [4]
The blame for this untimely painting did not lie with the ship's officers, but with custom. [5]
I can't get this title page printed here without having to lie so much that the thought of it is disagreeable to one reared as I have been. [5]
Nitetis was by this time so thoroughly awakened from the effect of the fresh morning air, that she did not care to lie down again. [10]

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