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Sentences starting with lies

Lies told to injure a person and lies told to profit yourself are not justifiable, but lies told to help another person, and lies told in the public interest--oh, well, that is quite another matter. [5]
Lies at rest in the silence and solitude of his room for hours; mustn't read, mustn't smoke. [5]
Lies yonder, and cares for nothing any more. [5]

Sentences ending with lies

So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
You find fault with his history because it seems to be lies. [5]
Do you see where the kernel of the matter lies? [5]
That much of what they said is true, and the rest is lies. [5]
Detricand lifted him up, and buttoning the shirt and straightening the coat again, he said: "Now, you're to go home and sleep the sleep of the unjust, and you're to keep the sixth commandment, and you're to tell no more lies. [11]
I think no trouble will come of it; and, at all events, I shall take care of it so far as in me lies. [7]
Twice I have travelled to the grave where he lies. [11]
For by that time you have begun to reflect that you are a person who deals in exaggerations--and exaggerations are lies. [5]
There is where the true evil lies. [5]
How inadequate to the subjection of any considerable portion of it seems this little band of ill-equipped adventurers, who cannot without peril of life stray a league from the bay where the "Mayflower" lies. [4]

Short sentences using lies

It lies in your power. [10]
My way lies towards Virginia. [11]
There lies Caesar's lion. [10]
Are all books lies? [5]
It don't tell lies. [5]
Yes, there she lies. [2]
It is lies! [5]
The Connetable lies! [11]
What lies beyond! [10]
There it lies! [10]

Sentences containing lies two or more times

Lies, lies--even in this letter nothing but lies and heartless dissimulation! [10]
I did imagine that everything had been said about life at sea that could be said, but no matter, it was all a failure and lies, nothing but lies with a thin varnish of fact,--only you have stated it as it absolutely is. [5]
I forbore to tell him lies, for that would have been wrong; but if my truths deceived him, perhaps that made them lies, and I am to blame. [5]
It lies as far south of the line as Quebec lies north of it, and the climates of the two should be alike; but for some reason or other it has not been so arranged. [5]
One already lies dead in our room, and there lies Kamus, grandson of the astrologer Rameri. [10]
You've heard these cattle here scoff at them and call them lies and humbugs,--but they're not lies and humbugs, they're a reality and they're going to be a more wonderful thing some day than they are now. [5]

More example sentences with the word lies in them

It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
I can endure your lies, but not your love. [5]
I listened to you when you told me lies as to how it would ruin him . [9]
And what do you think it was that saved the ship, and Captain Coram, and so in due time gave to London that Foundling Hospital which he endowed, and under the floor of which he lies buried? [6]
I will tell you no more lies, Uarda. [10]
No punishment for you but this lies in my power. [10]
For she lies yonder, and before her is another journey than that. [5]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
She worries, and worries, and worries; and wakes nights, and lies so, thinking--that is, worrying; worrying about you. [5]
So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
Sunday She doesn't work Sundays, but lies around all tired out, and likes to have the fish wallow over her; and she makes fool noises to amuse it, and pretends to chew its paws, and that makes it laugh. [5]
The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star. [10]
But it lies with you to prevent it from ever breaking out; for I should always endeavor to fulfill a kindly expressed wish, if it were possible. [10]
It lies wholly with the customer whether he will injure himself by means of either, or will derive from them the benefits which they will afford him if he uses their possibilities judiciously. [5]
People humbugged them with stupid and silly lies, and then laughed at them for believing and printing the same. [5]
Does He behold with smile serene The shows of that unending scene, Where sleepless, hopeless anguish lies, And, ever dying, never dies? [6]
He must consume with inward disgust while Olivier Delagarde shamelessly babbled his monstrous lies to all who would listen. [11]
And he communed with himself, saying: "One by one they have gone away and left me; and now she lies here, the dearest and the last. [5]
Now it lies with each of you to show whether or no he is faithful to me. [10]
Between Salisbury and Wilton, three miles and a half distant, is the little village of Bemerton, where "holy George Herbert" lived and died, and where he lies buried. [6]
Seleukus and his wife have a great regard for Alexander, and will do for him all that lies in their power. [10]
There are patients who never tell their physician the grief which lies at the bottom of their ailments. [6]
Take the thing, which lies there. [10]
From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
From position in which horse lies, think elephant traveled northward along line Berkley Railway. [5]
The left wing, which acts as the bow, lies over the right wing which serves as the fiddle. [1]
He is crucified wherever his brothers are slain without cause; he lies buried wherever man, made in his Maker's image, is entombed in ignorance lest he should learn the rights which his Divine Master gave him! [6]
I care not what you say of me--say your worst, and I will not resent it, for I will still prove that your way lies with me. [11]
And Philostratus perceived what was going on in her mind, and with the exhortation, "Remember how many persons' weal or woe lies in your hands! [10]
Do you know what prospect lies before you through him? [10]
Do you know what lies before you, if it should be discovered that you have covered the escape of the prey whom the patriarch already sees in his net? [10]
He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
His positive instructions were full of value, but the spirit in which he taught inspired that loyal love of truth which lies at the bottom of all real excellence. [3]
Yet, for the welfare of the people, I will forget what lies between us and offer thee my hand. [10]
Amasis spun a web of lies, in which he managed to entrap, not only the whole world, but you too, my Sovereign. [10]
More significant, more vital elements of the truth are the rewards of a mind which searches and craves, especially in these days when the fruit of so many able minds lies on the shelves of library and bookshop. [9]
I have said, very many times, in Judge Douglas's hearing, that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end. [7]
The path lies up the steps from the new Massa carriage-road, now on the backbone of the ridge, and now in the recesses of the broken country. [4]
They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box. [5]
If we can't understand them, because we have n't taken a medical degree, what the Father of Lies do they ask us to sign them for? [6]
That Hell lies underneath Heaven you have doubtless heard from some one or other. [10]
Do not laugh, Ulrich; I well know that youth lies behind me, that I am old, yet Pasquale loves me; since I have had him, I have been more content and, Holy Virgin! [10]
She was not twenty-six years of age, and to have learned the truth at twenty-six, and still not to have been wholly destroyed by the lies of life, was something which might be turned to good account. [11]
By instinct it turns to where help lies, as a wild deer, fleeing, from captivity, makes for the veldt and the watercourse. [11]
Can it be true that there can be no more playing with life, that now I am grown up, that on me now lies a responsibility for my every word and deed? [2]
This is pre-eminently true of those writers whose charm lies less in distinctively intellectual qualities than in temperament, atmosphere, humor-writers of the quality of Steele, Goldsmith, Lamb, Irving. [4]
The glory, the true democracy of this nation, lies in its equal opportunity for all. [9]
Well then, your trouble with Herdegen is sick and sore and lies right deep. [10]
I think the trouble in many minds lies in the fact that they persist in regarding it as something to be made safe. [9]
A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest. [2]
He had heard, too, that they shrunk from no lies, no fraud to escape their toil, and how difficult was the task of compelling them to obey and fulfil their duty. [10]
The stone lies too far from the water to enable anybody to land on it now, and it is protected from vandalism by an iron grating. [4]
I expect I told more lies than I have told before in a month. [5]
That Mount Sinai to which I desire to transport the reader must not be confounded with the mountain which lies at a long day's journey to the south of it. [10]
Rotterdam also lies to the south. [10]
The river lies to the right of it, in places, and to the left of it in other places. [5]
It lies next to the porch leading into the temple of the goddess Neith, the protectress of Sais. [10]
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
They had listened to the lies which the bad birds had told of the Big Knives, they had taken their presents. [9]
While rightly resolved to prosecute the war on the battle lines to the utmost limit of American resources, he points out that the true significance of the conflict lies in "revolutionary change. [9]
We beg you to make some other demand on us, and we will certainly grant it if it lies in our power. [10]
I should like to help you as far as lies in my power. [2]
With every desire to do justice to the pretty town of Oswego, which lies on a gentle slope by the lake, it had to them an out-of-doors, unprotected, remote aspect. [4]
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]
He desires Harris to be taken as a man of vast credibility; and when this thing lies among them, they will not press it to show where the guilt really belongs. [7]
Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king--who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]
It lies only three miles from the curving end of the promontory, and is about twenty miles due south of Naples. [4]
Like all wounds, those inflicted by the arrows of Eros heal more slowly when youth lies behind the stricken one. [10]
Three miles off this point lies Capri. [4]
The virtue of this dictum lies not in dogma, but in an indomitable attitude of mind to which the world owes its every advance in civilization; quixotic, perhaps, but necessary to great accomplishment. [9]
Here, here in this desk, lies his answer to the emperor's accusations, as given to the Greek deputation who had speech of him in this very room. [10]
All these little things happened such a few hours ago--and now she lies yonder. [5]
No, everybody swallowed these people's lies whole, and never asked a question of any sort or about anything. [5]
She, who lies there, saw many suns rise and set, ere her vengeance ripened. [10]
The explorer lies there without name or headstone to mark his awful resting-place. [4]
The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made. [5]
The market gives them facts enough; politics, lies enough; art, affectations enough; criminal news, horrors enough; fashion, more than enough of vanity upon vanity, and vexation of purse. [4]
No danger to the writer lies in doing political work, if it does not sap his strength and destroy his health. [11]
Besides, through Charmian the way to the Queen lies open, and nothing which happens at court escapes her notice. [10]
It lies at the very foundation of their sense of justice, and it cannot be trifled with. [7]
Then leaning against the trunk of the ancient tree, while he sank down on the bench, gazing alternately at the ground and into her face, she began: "Childhood already lies behind me, and youth will soon follow. [10]
On the right the town of Pictou, with its four thousand inhabitants, lies upon the side of the ridge that runs out towards the Sound. [4]
I think that the secret of his high prosperity lies elsewhere. [5]
On him lies the responsibility; to him must go the discredit. [11]
The taxes of the region wherein Domremy lies have been collected sixty-three times since then, and all the villages of that region have paid except that one--Domremy. [5]
The road to the rampart of a hostile city lies over corpses, and I, as general and king--" Euergetes suddenly broke off in his sentence, for a loud noise and vehement talking were heard outside the door. [10]
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. [7]
My experience of the night before might have taught me that happiness lies in the trick of transforming necessity, but it did not. [9]
There is where the mystery lies. [5]
Heidelberg lies at the mouth of a narrow gorge--a gorge the shape of a shepherd's crook; if one looks up it he perceives that it is about straight, for a mile and a half, then makes a sharp curve to the right and disappears. [5]
I knew that the letter would annoy, and there it lies. [11]
The letters of the latter show that scarcely one of them but contains the outline of some rainbow-chasing scheme, full of wild optimism, and the certainty that somewhere just ahead lies the pot of gold. [5]
It lies on the ground among the ruins of ancient Memphis. [10]
Here is where the greatest danger lies that, while we profess to be a government of law and reason, law will give way to violence on demand of this awful and crushing power. [7]
We went down the Great War-path which lies below us, and when we was through there wasn't a corn-shuck or a wigwam or a war post left. [9]
It lies before the goal; the pursuit is at an end. [12]
In that lies the freshness and the interest of life, and it is the source of every endeavor. [4]
It lies at the foot of a range of hills, the loftiest of which is over a thousand feet in height. [6]

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