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 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 began to muster new armies, and the Germans settled down to a grim siege of Paris.

They were not invulnerable either, as during the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman siege towers were sprayed by the defenders with Greek fire.

They considered either an assault or siege on the principal British base at New York City, or operations against the British forces in Virginia.

They are typically employed by specialist police, such as SWAT teams in high risk entry and siege scenarios, such as hostage rescue and breaching gang compounds, as well as in antiterrorism operations.

They renewed the siege while Edmund went to Wessex to raise further troops, returning to again relieve London, defeat the Danes at Otford, and pursue Cnut into Kent.

They found a focus on Fort Vaux which was shelled continuously by the heaviest German siege guns.

They enjoyed a considerable superiority in numbers over the defenders, but the settlement had been heavily fortified by Dupleix and after two months the siege was abandoned.

They have mastered siege technology and are able to capture fortified cities.

They and their native allies returned in the spring of 1521 to lay siege to Tenochtitlan, a battle that ended on August 13 with the destruction of the city.

They were first used during the German Eighth Army's siege of Riga, and again at the Battle of Caporetto.

They were supported by the arrival in April of 6000 soldiers and 3000 horsemen that started the siege of the city.

They had more trouble with the cities in Holland, where they took Haarlem after seven months and a loss of 8, 000 soldiers, and they had to break off their siege of Alkmaar.

They broke off their siege when nearby dykes were breached by the Dutch.

They assassinated government officials and PDPA members, and laid siege to small rural outposts.

They quickly supplied Fort Patrick Henry and waited out the siege.

They did not, however, have the original purpose of being a structure able to resist a prolonged siege or bombardment.

They distinguished themselves at the siege of Bergues, where Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes of Cochrane's regiment was killed, and still more at the siege of Ypres, according to Morgan's own story.

They had brought no siege engines, however.

They encountered and destroyed the Roman force outside Constantinople and were only halted by their lack of siege equipment capable of breaching the city's massive walls.

They could, however, organize a defense of their home city, which, after an extended siege, was captured and completely destroyed.

They had a chance for revenge when Alfonso XI died unexpectedly from a fever in the siege of Gibraltar in March 1350.

They are regarded as the first casualties of the siege.