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They and lay
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.
They lay on the cellar floor in a disorderly pile.
They picnicked by the pool, then lay back on the grass and looked at stars.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
They still needed to return to water to lay their shell-less eggs, and even modern amphibia have a fully aquatic larval stage with gills like their ancestral fish.
They lay with each other, and then in some versions, Aethra waded to the island of Sphairia ( aka Calauria ) and bedded Poseidon.
They lay siege to Tampere, entering the town three days later.
They lay it down as a principle, that the immediate cause of the smallpox exists in the mortal part of every human and animal form ; that the mediate ( or second ) acting cause, which stirs up the first, and throws it into a state of fermentation, is multitudes of imperceptible animalculae floating in the atmosphere ; that these are the cause of all epidemical diseases, but more particularly of the small pox.
They also called for the creation of the Consistoire ( Consistory ), an ecclesiastical court composed of the lay elders and the ministers.
They wrote: ' It is our hope that this case will lay the foundation upon which a set of policies and guidelines are built so that when cases of abuse, especially child abuse, are alleged, the programs in place will allow for appropriate questioning and investigation by the police, physicians and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt.
But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.
They are similar to common law juries, and unlike lay judges, in that they sit separately from the judges and decide questions of fact alone while the judge determines questions of law.
They are also expected to provide a living example for the laity, and to serve as a " field of merit " for lay followers — providing laymen and women with the opportunity to earn merit by giving gifts and support to the bhikkhus.
They usually are much larger than ordinary bricks and so are much faster to lay for a wall of a given size.
" By the eighteenth century these unorthodox religious and philosophical concerns were well defined as ' occult ', inasmuch as they lay on the outermost fringe of accepted forms of knowledge and discourse ," They were, however, preserved by antiquarians and mystics.
They proposed a kind of Neuroanthropology which would lay the foundations for a more complete scientific account of cultural similarity and variation by requiring an integration of cultural anthropology and neuroscience — a program that theorists such as Victor Turner also embraced.
They were thus multiethnic and cannot lay claim to an exclusively Tervingian heritage.
They lay the foundation for most of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist.
They were, in fact, a survival of an ancient and venerable German institution ; and if, during a certain period, they exercised something like a reign of terror over a great part of Germany, the cause of this lay in the sickness of the times, which called for some powerful organization to combat the growing feudal anarchy.
They were especially active in rural parts of Latin America where parish priests were not always available, as they placed a high value on lay participation.
They lay ribbons of white or yellow eggs.
They cross the Danube and lay siege to Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv ).
They would lay out the streets at right angles, in the form of a square grid.

They and little
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
They rode to the Rockfork House, a little farther along the opposite side of the street.
They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.
Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.
They are the most beautiful part of that little piece of nature.
They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.
They also caught on a little bit on how to smile a lot without your lips trembling.
They were a little late in getting home.
They depend on my supposedly expert knowledge of a trade of which they themselves know little.
They have little `` esprit de corps ''.
They apologized for the condition, including dirt and flies, and I was a little at a loss to know what to say.
`` They can be going along, doing little damage, then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble ''.
They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.
They had divided the Congo into six provinces -- Leopoldville, Kasai, Kivu, Katanga, Equator and Eastern -- unfortunately with little regard for ethnic groupings.
They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.
They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.
They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor that received little or no light and fed on detritus that descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.
They noted that there was little vocabulary shared by Turkic and Tungusic but not Mongolic.
They believed the continuities of the deepest structures were central to history, beside which upheavals in institutions or the superstructure of social life were of little significance, for history lies beyond the reach of conscious actors, especially the will of revolutionaries.
They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

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