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Sentences starting with lying

Lying is universal we all do it; we all must do it. [5]
Lying beside him was a leather bag, within which were odds and ends of food and some small books of legend and ritual. [11]
Lying down in the shadow of a thick tamarisk bush, above which a tall palm towered proudly, he stretched his limbs comfortably to rest in the assurance that the people were now provided for, in war by his good sword, in peace by the Law. [10]
Lying in bed, patient, gentle. [6]
Lying at home in bed is the thing _I_ am afraid of. [5]
Lying upon her bed, sightless, voiceless, she was a writhing, living flame. [13]
Lying on his bed during those sleepless nights he did just what he reproached those younger generals for doing. [2]
Lying in bed and listening to their dreary music had a pleasure in it akin to the Lucretian luxury, or that which Byron speaks of as to be enjoyed in looking on at a battle by one "who hath no friend, no brother there. [6]
Lying here at anchor all day--Albany (King George's Sound), Western Australia. [5]

Sentences ending with lying

I know that whenever I have said most, and felt most, something in me kept saying all the time: 'You're lying, you're lying, you're lying! [11]
This same morning we visited several of the temporary hospitals, churches and school-houses, where the wounded were lying. [6]
Presently the straw was in a blaze, and from this the fire extended to the furniture, to the stairway leading up from the cellar, and was working its way along the entry under the stairs leading up to the apartment where Maurice was lying. [6]
They had got through the gate and were in the Canopic way when Dada suddenly perceived that his lips were white, and felt the arm tremble on which her hand was lying. [10]
And you were the finest woman that I'd ever met and talked with; you--" "Oh, stop lying! [11]
It was plain that there was a charm about the performance that was apart from the mere interest which attaches to lying. [5]
Is theft better than lying? [5]
I wonder whether she knew I was lying? [9]
Speaking was lying or being silent was lying. [11]
By the soul of my father, the blind eyes of my mother, and the pure light of the sun, Croesus, I swear that I am not lying. [10]

Short sentences using lying

He was lying down. [4]
Aren't you lying as usual? [11]
It's as easy as lying. [5]
Standing or lying? [2]

Sentences containing lying two or more times

Now, you see, this lady's fault was not in lying, but only in lying injudiciously. [5]
At the United States Hotel, where many were lying, I heard mention of an officer in an upper chamber, and, going there, found Lieutenant Abbott, of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, lying ill with what looked like typhoid fever. [6]
I am sure she saw Adrian Fellowes lying dead in his room.... Ian, it is awful, but for some reason she hated him, and she saw him lying dead. [11]
He was lying on his back propped up high, and his small bony hands with their knotted purple veins were lying on the quilt; his left eye gazed straight before him, his right eye was awry, and his brows and lips motionless. [2]
I wonder, when I kissed my mother first, and knew that I was kissing her, if the same little devil that sits up in my head now, said then: 'You're lying, you're lying, you're lying. [11]
I hesitated whether I had better fire lying on my stomach or lying on my back, and resting the gun on my toes. [4]
What is the difference between lying with your eyes and lying with your mouth? [5]

More example sentences with the word lying in them

Pierre hated him; Young Aleck admired in him a quality lying dormant in himself--decision; Mab Humphrey spoke unkindly of no one. [11]
Fancy yourself, that you have broken it, and that the pieces are lying at the bottom of the sea. [10]
I can tell you (if you don't know it) that you have found the most artful, lying, pilfering, devilish little minx that was ever born.--Have you got her here? [12]
The bundle of yellow-stained envelopes he had brought were lying on the table, and Honora picked them up mechanically. [9]
He found a yellow envelope lying on his rickety table, and recognized that it was of a family sacred to the transmission of telegrams. [5]
Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan's house, where he was staying, at three o'clock in the morning, he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees. [9]
A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
Why should we without shame help the nation lie, and then be ashamed to do a little lying on our own account? [5]
Sally came forwards with the little parcel of sandwiches she had been preparing, and put them in the saddle-bags lying on a chair at the door, in readiness for the journey Jim was about to make. [11]
The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
Charley was lying with one arm thrown above his head; the other lay over the side of the bed. [11]
He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]
Presently a stranger with a long-tailed coat on came in, and not noticing Brown's hat, which was lying in a chair, sat down on it. [5]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
Some day I will read it, and if its lying cheerfulness fools me, then I shall believe it fooled the reader. [5]
Rustem, the Masdakite, who till now had been lying unconscious, had been roused from his lethargy by some change of treatment, and loudly called for his master Haschim. [10]
A box of white kids was lying open on the table. [6]
He gazed a while through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged,--it's a raft! [5]
He slid something which rattled under a paper lying on the table. [6]
The red kerchief which had confined it was lying on the floor. [10]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
But this world, where lying and deceit flourish, would be changed into a Paradise, and it would be an Ueberhell whom mankind would have to thank for the great blessing. [10]
But then, later, when I was lying in my room and the moon shone down on my bed . [10]
Judicious lying is what the world needs. [5]
Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
Croesus and Phanes went into the green and pleasant garden lying on the eastern side of the royal palace, which abounded in groves of trees, shrubberies, fountains and flower-beds. [10]
Well, one day we were lying in the open sea, about two hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. [11]
But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern. [9]
They lighted the way for the wounded sculptor, who was being borne home to the oasis, lying in his mother's easy litter, and accompanied by his father and his sister. [10]
All of which was unnecessary, as Willie wasn't sick; I had been lying myself. [5]
The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table. [2]
When the body was taken down, Yessoo was lying on the cot. [5]
A heavy sea was running, the gale was blowing hard from the north-east, and under the close-hauled sail the Belle Suzanne was lying over dangerously. [11]
And now there was not one of them that saw anything incongruous in the whip of rhinoceros-hide lying on the table, or clinched in Barry Whalen's hand. [11]
She saw I was lying, and in a rage snatched up my gun. [11]
Epagathos, the freedman, was lying on a mattress from the dining-room; the corpulent physician slept soundly, and if he snored too loudly, old Adventus poked him and quietly spoke a word of warning to him. [10]
The Mukaukas, who was lying deathly pale with colorless lips, scarcely opened his eyes at his son's greeting. [10]
On the table was lying a little leather book, stamped with gold,--her prayerbook. [9]
He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound. [5]
Our captain, however, was a cool man and a seaman, and slipped through the cruisers lying in wait off the Capes very triumphantly. [9]
Inside the canvas walls Ephraim was lying on his uncle's camp-bed. [10]
Titianus received his visitor, lying down, and yet his demeanor revealed the self-possessed dignity of a high-born Roman, and the calm of a Stoic philosopher. [10]
One can be very proud of his adopted country, and brag for it, and fight for it; but lying deep in a man's nature is something, no doubt, that no oath nor material interest can change, and that is never naturalized. [4]
The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. [5]
We had found upon the train from New York a lovely, lonely lady, the wife of one of our most spirited Massachusetts officers, the brave Colonel of the __th Regiment, going to seek her wounded husband at Middletown, a place lying directly in our track. [6]
Lawless came out upon a ledge of rock opposite the camp, a gulch lying between. [11]
We gave them up without an effort at recovering them, and cursed the lying books that said horses would stay by their masters for protection and companionship in a distressful time like ours. [5]
His house was up there a little way above the village, lying a few rods back from the river. [6]
She didn't--she's lying up on Mazy Mountain. [11]
Berenice had picked up a sword that was lying on the ground and had opened a vein with the point of it; her body, bathed in blood, was found at the foot of the statue of justice. [10]
John buried him under the twin hawthorn-trees,--one white and the other pink,--in a spot where Calvin was fond of lying and listening to the hum of summer insects and the twitter of birds. [4]
We were lying under the hut of spruce-bark, on fragrant hemlock-boughs, talking, after supper. [4]
Here she found Uarda bound hand and foot, and Kaschta lying on the ground in a heavy drunken slumber. [10]
In less than two months that indomitable leader was lying dead beside Wilson's Creek, among the oaks on Bloody Hill. [9]
There were some twenty of us lying there. [2]
My own eyes turned with theirs to see the body of poor Weldon lying face downward in the water. [9]
Why should we try to make it appear that abstention from lying is a virtue? [5]
But the only trouble with lying is, that the demand becomes so great you can't keep all the cards in your head, and then the one you forget does you. [11]
Streets in some towns have a litter of pieces of paper, and odds and ends of one sort or another lying around. [5]
Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
His mind flashed to that upstairs room, where a comely captive creature was lying not an arm's length from the coats and trousers and shabby waistcoats of this barbarian. [11]
Then he used to take me on his knee, and try to make me understand that she was not lying in her grave, but had flown to a beautiful country beyond the sky where nothing died or ever grew old--we were very happy once! [12]
When I came to she was lying with her head on my breast--dead-- stone dead. [11]
He reached out to seize a hammer lying at his hand, but the apprentice said quickly: "Sapri--that's the cholera hammer! [11]
Phips himself was to remain on the Bridgwater Merchant, the Swallow lying near with a goodly number of men to meet any possible attack from the sea. [11]
If he desired to own that, while in a state of senseless intoxication he had slandered modest maidens, and was ignorant of his actions when he staked his castle and lands against the gold lying before him, Heinz Schorlin, he might keep Tannenreuth. [10]
This attracted men to him personally, and besides he found, as Bismarck did, that it was more serviceable to him than lying, for the crafty world usually banks upon insincerity and indirectness. [4]
She was lying to him now because--well, because she loved him. [11]
I want you to give your pledge on the Book"--he laid his hand on a Testament lying on the table--"that you will hold no further communication with the lady. [11]
She had tried to be true to it, that dead, lost thing, of which this man who came once a year to see her, and now, lying with his life at stake in the hospital, was the repellent ghost. [11]
Murray Bradshaw called to a boatman near by and ordered the man to row him over as fast as he could to the vessel lying in the stream. [6]
Then I turned to a big house on the hillock beyond the cedars, whose windows were open, with a cool dusk lying behind them. [11]
We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and strutting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them. [5]
Thus many a time our souls ached to see want and pain lying in darksome chambers on wretched straw, though we earned thanks and true joy when we saw that healing and ease followed in our steps. [10]
The Spaniard scornfully thrust aside with his foot the inert body lying on the ground. [10]
She looked out through the open window at the stars and across the open place lying at her feet. [10]
He gazed awhile through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged--it's a raft! [5]
Then I went through a long passageway and into a little room, and there before my eyes was a big St. Bernard dog lying on a bench. [5]
Hastening through the throng, which promptly made way for the doctor, she found Father Damon lying across the threshold, as he had fallen, colorless and unconscious. [4]
As a hundred thoughts tending towards the solution of the problem by which he was faced, flashed through his mind, and he rejected them all, he repeated mechanically the phrase, "I suppose you are lying now. [11]
I should have thought that your own father was example enough of the shameful way in which those lying priests deceive their best friends. [10]
Not long after this, happening to call in at the lawyer's office, his eye was caught by the corner of a book lying covered up by a pile of papers. [6]
Whenever we do this we are in a lying attitude, and our speech is cant; for none of us are reverent--in a meritorious way; deep down in our hearts we are all irreverent. [5]
And there was this unfortunate deserted sick man lying between life and death, beyond all help unless some unexpected assistance should come to his rescue. [6]
The burden of this somewhat comprehensive demonstration lying entirely upon the advocates of this doctrine, it may be left to their mature reflections. [3]
A good many things belonging to me are still lying in your workshop. [10]
Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were unwounded. [2]
Twenty-four hours afterward these bottles would be still lying on the glassy water under our noses, showing that the ship had not moved out of her place in all that time. [5]
Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe. [5]
He was lying there, sound asleep on the floor, with his old patch on his eye and his arms spread out. [5]
Well, at least there would be no more lying, no more brutalising inward shame. [11]
You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there's the bridge. [2]
Under the gun there was some shade, for she threw over it a piece of tarpaulin and some ragged, blood-stained jackets lying near--jackets of men whose wounds their comrades had tried hastily to help when the scythe of war cut them down. [11]
In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening-tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning. [12]
I was lying there trying the India-rubber rings. [5]
For us initiated there remains only the choice between lying and silence. [10]
Hans Eitelfritz warned them to hasten, carried the senseless man, with Adam's assistance, to the cart, and half an hour later the dangerously wounded, outcast son was lying in the most comfortable bed in the best room in his father's house. [10]
However he endured the wailing and whimpering that surrounded him till he had ascertained the condition of the man lying on the ground before him. [10]

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