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 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 were also constantly on display as America's unofficial ambassadors to the world, leading parades, cutting ribbons, and making speeches.

They are secured by elastic straps and ribbons that are tied to the dancer's ankles.

They identified themselves by sea-green ribbons worn on their clothing.

They can be long ribbons, firmer strips or twisted curls.

They decided to retain the ribbons with which the pigtail was tied as a declaration against over regulation, and were granted this special concession by the King.

They weave in and around each other, boys going one way and girls going the other and the ribbons are woven together around the pole until the merry-makers meet at the base.

They are capable of considerable output levels and are rather more sturdy than electrostatics or ribbons, but have similar low-mass moving elements.

They were dressed in their nightclothes, with ribbons tied in the girls ' hair.

They wore bells on their legs and a " scotch " glengarry type of hat with ribbons at the back.

They are worn to demonstrate the wearer's support of a cause or charitable organization, similar to awareness ribbons.

They consist of a fine interleaving of kamacite and taenite bands or ribbons called lamellæ.

They specialise in commercial beef animals, and have won first ribbons for hoof and hook, steer competitions, as well as junior judging and parading, in such shows as the Royal Sydney Show, Royal Brisbane Show and Tamworth Show.

They distributed over 85, 000 ribbons.

They dance Cotswold Morris and sport black top hats, red and white baldricks and ribbons.

They come in crisp basket weaves in natural honey hues, along with lacey open weaves with a lustre finish in natural, white, black and a whole range of colors.

They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town ''.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

They were covered with tiny white blossoms, their scant roots clawing at the stony ground, and wild birds darted in and about and through them so they were nearly alive with the rustle and cry.

They had white skins and blue eyes ; ;

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 all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

They would be black or white or horse-blanket plaid, chic and splashy, like Vivian herself.

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

They wore white pants and either black or white jerseys.

They offer black, green, or white tea, available with or without milk.

They support and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals.

They were partly correct: a white dwarf slightly more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit will collapse into a neutron star, which is itself stable because of the Pauli exclusion principle.

They are ranged under two classes, white and red ; the white cultivars being generally the best flavoured, and the most crisp and tender.

They felt the other churches were not doing enough to counter the history of racial injustice between black and white churches.

They adopted a red and white kit during the 1900 – 01 season.

They are also more likely to have piebald coats, and will almost always have a white spot on the chest or face.

They pursued an aggressive policy of land expansion for white settlements.

They have thick, silky fur, which can be long or short, colored black, grey, honey, white, brown, yellow, red, or a mix, depending on the species.

One of his most famous numbers is " They Ain't Makin ' Jews Like Jesus Anymore ," a song in which Kinky verbally and physically beats up a drunken white racist who berates blacks, Jews, Greeks, and Sigma Nus in a bar.

They have a white head and body, grey back, grey wings tipped solid black and a yellow bill.

They wore white, to symbolize peace.