They lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.

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 trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

They are written by specialists in numerous types of business enterprises, cover a wide range of subjects, and are directed to the needs and interests of the small firm.

They offer to the people of this community case work service and counseling on a wide variety of family problems.

They are herbs with corms and leaves which are sometimes stalked ( petiolate ) with wide blades.

They are wide and spacious and about a mile long ", and this became the basis for the plan of Adelaide.

They are used to treat a wide variety of conditions and symptoms and are usually a first choice when short-term CNS sedation is needed.

They are somewhat variable in form and coloration, but all have the wide, flat, noses typical of New World Monkeys.

They eat a wide range of material ; in addition to the normal prey of small rodents, reptiles, other amphibians, birds and a range of invertebrates, they also eat plants, dog food and household refuse.

They are usually ROMplers, to give a wide variety of realistic instrument and other sounds such as drums, string instruments and wind instruments along with popular keyboard instrument sounds such as electric pianos and organs.

They also incorporate a wide variety of other Japanese instruments in their ensembles.

They noted, however, that their data included a wide range of products, and the degree of competition in each market varied significantly, and offer that further research on this issue should be conducted to determine whether these findings remain the same when purchasing the same product for both small and high volumes.

They are issued in response to questions by ordinary Muslims, and go unnoticed by those not concerned, while the much smaller number of fatwā issued on controversial subjects, such as war, jihad, and dhimmis ( particularly by extremist preachers ), sometimes get wide coverage in the media because of their political content ( see examples below ).

They typically have strong, stubby beaks, which in some species can be quite large ; however, Hawaiian honeycreepers are famous for the wide range of bill shapes and sizes brought about by adaptive radiation.

They are primarily granivorous, but euphoniines include considerable amounts of arthropods and berries in their diet, and Hawaiian honeycreepers evolved to utilize a wide range of food sources, including nectar.

They also employ a wide variety of investment strategies, and make use of techniques such as short selling and leverage.

They also hired running backs coach, Sylvester Croom, tight ends coach, Bobby Johnson, and wide receivers coach, Jerry Sullivan, to the coaching staff.

They appear to fall into two categories: wide belts, with radii of over 50 AU, and narrow belts ( like our own Kuiper belt ) with radii of between 20 and 30 AU and relatively sharp boundaries.

They can reach up to 3 in ( 7 cm ) long and 1. 5 in ( 3. 5 cm ) wide.

They consume a wide range of prey as well as fish, usually caught by swooping down from a perch.

They have sharp incisors to clip leaves at the front of the mouth, separated from the grinding cheek teeth by a wide diastema.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

They captured the AFC championship in 1971 behind quarterback Bob Griese, running backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, and wide receiver Paul Warfield.

They have been described as behaving in either an exceedingly furtive manner or a completely outgoing one, with wide grins and disconcerting giggles.

They emit a wide range of sounds used in communication, especially between cows and their calves.