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lay and near
The man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.
The many-bodied girl lay near him.
Most terrestrial caecilians that lay eggs do so in burrows or moist places on land near bodies of water.
An oracle of Geryon lay near, and the so-called sortes Praenestinae ( C. I. L.
But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.
In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.
But we learn from Zonaras that at some " later " date his body was exhumed and reburied in or near the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, where Constantine and the rest of his family lay.
Because the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure ( set to enter into force in 2011 ) does not provide for jury trials or lay judges, however, they are likely to be abolished in the near future.
" These place-names may ( apparently ) incorporate the element ' Rheged ' precisely because they lay on or near its borders.
From the sixth step the eagles raised the king and placed him in his seat, near which a golden serpent lay coiled.
Hedeby, which lay near the modern city of Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein, was pretty centrally located and could be reached from all four directions over land as well as from the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea.
One band of them would march on the town from one side while another lay in wait near a place called Gargettus in ambush.
He re-joined the Republican side using the false papers with the intention to desert as soon as possible, volunteering to lay telegraph cables near the front lines.
In most species, adult females lay their eggs in stagnant water ; some lay eggs near the water's edge ; others attach their eggs to aquatic plants.
Instead, they lay their eggs on damp mud or other surfaces near the water's edge.
The earnings have also been used to reacquire lands near the reservation and lay an infrastructure for the benefit of future generations.
The Belgian coalfield lay near the navigable River Meuse, so coal was shipped downstream to the ports and cities of the Rhine-Meuse delta.
The Greek Hippodamus ( c. 407 BC ) has been dubbed the " Father of City Planning " for his design of Miletus ; Alexander commissioned him to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.
They commonly spawn during the spring, when the females lay strings of eggs in covered areas such as near branches or underwater plants.
It seems that these are the same fords mentioned as being near Beth-barah, where Gideon lay in wait for the Midianites ().
The town of Verdun was chosen for this because it was an important stronghold, surrounded by a ring of forts, that lay near the German lines and because it guarded the direct route to Paris.
He further believed that slavery instilled in the white who remained a code of honor that blunted the disruptive potential of private gain and fostered the civic-mindedness that lay near the core of the republican creed.
The bodies of Holly and Valens lay near the plane, Richardson's body was thrown over the fence and into the cornfield of Juhl's neighbor Oscar Moffett, and Peterson's body remained entangled inside the plane's wreckage.

lay and mouth
The only alternate route to central Italy lay at the mouth of the Arno.
From mid-November 1535 to mid-April 1536, the French fleet lay frozen solid at the mouth of the St. Charles River, under the Rock of Quebec.
The mouth of the St. Joseph River at present day St. Joseph was an important point of Amerindian travel and commerce, as it lay along a key water route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
The important port of Bristol lay close to the mouth of the River Avon which defined the historic boundary between Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Immediately to the south of the fort lay the mouth of the La Chute River, which drains Lake George.
:" In the year 1782, while I lay in barracks at Tin mouth in the north of England, a recruit who had lately joined the regiment ,... was returned in sick list, with a message from his captain, requesting I would take him into the hospital.
In the centre of the 5th Army front lay the Mignano Gap, which because of the marshy conditions on the coastal plain represented the only realistic path to the mouth of the Liri valley.
The village lay at the mouth of the gorge of the River Niagara.
The River Rother today flows into the sea below Rye ; but until 1287 its mouth lay between Romney and Lydd.
A simpler intervention that can be implemented is to lay the patient on their side in the rescue position ( as taught in first aid and CPR classes ), so that any vomitus produced by the patient will drain out their mouth instead of back down their pharynx.
Fanelli lay unconscious while twitching and foaming at the mouth before being rushed to hospital in critical condition with skull and orbital bone fractures.
After the goal Gascoigne lay on the ground as if he were sitting in the dentist's chair, and teammates sprayed water from bottles into his open mouth.
Dol Amroth lay to the south of the mouth of the River Morthond.
Harry said they wished no poor law as every young man ought to lay up provision for old age ; yet, while he said this with one side of his mouth, he was screwing the other side to get his retiring pension raised from £ 4, 000 to £ 5, 000 a year.
Big villages lay near the falls and the mouth of the Clackamas River ; others lay near Estacada and Eagle Creek.
Nasalis lay eggs around the mouth, eyes, nose, and chin.
Stop-and-go guitar riffs, an atypical structure and peculiar lyrics (' Tell the bed not to lay / Like the open mouth of a grave / Not to stare up at me / Like a calf down on its knees ') made it an unlikely hit to boot.
* Books of Chronicles: "... And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon ; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia ; to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths ; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
When the great port city of Marienburg lay within the Empire's borders, it was part of the province of Westerland, at the mouth of the river Reik.
This face is similar to the sculpt which lay under the hood of the 12 " figure, with dark hair, and a half mask covering his nose and mouth.
By the end of the month, the main Gustav Line defences had been penetrated and the Allied troops were fighting their way forward to the next river, the Moro, north of the mouth of which lay Ortona.
On the east side of the Oswego River lay Fort Ontario, a log fortification which was constructed in 1755, was sited on a rise overlooking the mouth of the river.

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