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 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 the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.

They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

They insist they are ashamed of such violence and intimidation as occurred in Alabama when the Freedom Riders sought to break down racial discrimination in local bus depots.

They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.

They crept down the muddy slope toward the waiting boats.

They cantered down the peninsula, not slackening until the coach reached Woodside where the Santa Cruz uplands begin.

They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu Harbor, knocked down telephone lines, marooned automobiles, flooded lawns, killed six cows.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

They bore down on him.

They would be coming for him next, bearing down on him from both directions.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

They had all turned down his son.

They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.

They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.

They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.

They have more slender muzzles, sharper ears that they use in the hunt for termites, black vertical stripes on a coat of yellowish fur, and a long, distinct manes down the midlines of their necks and backs.

They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.

They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.