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He was as cold as ice as he lay in his bed during his final moments.
Falling sales and a consequent loss of profits forced the company to lay off more workers.
The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket.
They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages.
Anglican priests held services in private homes or lay readers who were not bound by the oaths held morning and evening prayer.
And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.
Sailors feared what lay beyond Cape Bojador, and whether it was possible to return once it was passed.
All dinosaurs lay amniotic eggs with hard shells made mostly of calcium carbonate.
The genotype of the female influences the time of day that she is active, which also influence her ability to lay larger clutches.
At the time, Europeans did not know what lay beyond Cape Bojador on the African coast.
The origin of the Kingdom of Portugal lay in the reconquista, the gradual reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors.
Both dioceses and provinces hold synods, usually annually, consisting of the active diocesan clergy and lay delegates elected by parish churches.
Continuing Anglican churches have generally been formed by clergy and lay people who left churches belonging to the Anglican Communion.
Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
Caesar's dead body lay where it fell on the Senate floor for nearly three hours before other officials arrived to remove it.
For example, many turtles are killed on roads when they leave the water to lay their eggs in upland sites.
They feed mainly on plant material and lay their eggs in a simple scrape on the ground.
The family Viduidae do not build their own nests, instead they lay eggs in other birds' nests.
The Petroleum Warfare Department turned to Johnson and Phillips company for special gear to handle and lay the pipe.
A female Glanville fritillary will lay as many as 10 clutches of eggs in her lifetime.
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Away from the sea a wilderness of moors, or mountains, lay to the east and was inhabited by Finnas, a reference to the Sami people.
During the travel of the goddess, the Germanic tribes cease all hostilities, and do not lay their hands upon arms.
And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks.
The city was built to replace Govapuri, which lay a few kilometres to the south and had been used as a port by the Kadamba and Vijayanagar kings.
Another well known example is the Field of Corn in Dublin, Ohio, where a hundreds on concrete ears of corn lay in a grassy field.
The General Synod meets triennially and consists of lay people, clergy, and bishops from each of the 29 dioceses.
Diocesan synods are convened by a bishop in his or her diocese, and consist of elected clergy and lay members.
The Church in Wales currently has clergy and lay members with differing views regarding the subject of human sexuality.
The various courts of review comprise one bishop, three priests or deacons, and three lay persons.
For most other cases in the first and second tier courts lay judges sit alongside professional judges.
This symbol mirrors the real life of the green Hawaiian turtle as it will swim hundreds of miles to lay its eggs at its own place of birth.
After the rising, responsibility for Scotland lay primarily with the office of the Home Secretary, usually exercised by the Lord Advocate.
Tropical species usually lay just one egg, but two or three is typical in cooler regions if there is an adequate food supply.
German submarines were used to lay mines and to attack iron ore shipping in the Baltic.
Royal Marine Lieutenant Lewis Buckle Reeve was seriously wounded and lay next to Nelson.
Dasmann in the year 1968 lay book A Different Kind of Country advocating conservation.
This lack of knowledge of what lay north of the shifting barrier of ice gave rise to a number of conjectures.
Urban districts that lay across county boundaries were to be included in the county with the greater part of the population in the 1881 census.
Only one third of the Mary Rose was intact and she lay deeply embedded in mud.
With Havana now in their hands, the British lay poised to strike at other targets in the Spanish main should the war continue for another year.
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Crocodiles lay eggs, which are laid in either holes or mound nests, depending on species.
Females also tend to mate in their natal groups before dispersing with a mate to lay their eggs in a different population.
The gorge would be baited so that it would rest parallel to the lay of the line.
They lay empty for one or two centuries, when changing environmental and political conditions made the region habitable again.
He also wanted to relate to and connect with the concerns of the plebs and lay people.
Upon arriving in Rome, which would have happened by 75, he quickly began to lay down the tracks for his political career.
The Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle.
The Venetians deployed numerous galleys and the galleon Totus Mundus in the port of Ancona, while imperial troops lay siege from the land.
Adults are found in summer on newly fallen or recently felled trees chewing tiny slits in the bark in which they lay eggs.
Marco Polo demonstrated that an ocean lay east of Asia and was connected with the Indian Ocean.
It is also unknown if the Totonac built it, but since they have dominated the region for centuries, they lay claim to it.
Another example comes from the earls of Oxford, whose property largely lay in Essex.
Out of wedlock, William I had numerous children, their descendants being among those who would lay claim to the Scottish crown.
Finally, when I wouldn't let her stall any longer, after two pussyless years, we're in bed, the big pay-off, and I'm really ready to lay it in!
Each year, more than 2,000 female leatherbacks haul themselves onto Matura Beach to lay their eggs.
In 1991, the Convention recommended parity in pay and benefits between clergy and lay employees in equivalent positions.
The Rhondda lay within Penychen, a narrow strip running between modern day Glyn Neath and the coast between Cardiff and Aberthaw.
The powder was carried over the hill to Tobacco Bay, from where boats transported it to an American ship that lay offshore.
Females lay 10,000 to 100,000 eggs contained in a corneous capsule from which pelagic larvae escape and eventually settle to the bottom.
Trial courts are made up of lay persons and of priests or deacons, with the clergy to have a majority by one.
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It is a means for lay citizens, representative of the community, to participate in the administration of justice.
As a guarantee against any abuse of power by the educated elite, the number of lay judges always exceeds the number of appointed judges.
Because he knew the lay of the land, he could run faster in the darkness than his pursuer.
If we can lay hands on some chicken wire and a black light, we can make some scary Halloween decorations.
Therefore there are a few shades of gray about who might lay claim to being a founder of Greenpeace.
The origins of hydrography lay in the making of charts to aid navigation, by individual mariners as they navigated into new waters.
In most species of caridean shrimp, the females lay 50,000 to 1 million eggs, which hatch after some 24 hours into tiny nauplii.
The terns are birds of open habitats that typically breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material.
The belief that a route lay to the far north persisted for several centuries and led to numerous expeditions into the Arctic.
Henceforward, the weight of British Naval prestige lay heavy across all German sea enterprise.
The appeal of Paris lay in the sophisticated language and manners of French high society, including courtly behavior and fashion.
As Nelson lay dying, he ordered the fleet to anchor, as a storm was predicted.
It was crossed in March 1945, and the way lay open to the center of Germany.
The most practical place to achieve this would be in the region of Sedan, which lay in the sector of Rundstedt's Army Group.
Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand.
The Agnus Dei is chanted while the clergy and assistants first commune, followed by lay communicants.
A nervy tank lining will be difficult to lay around tight bends or in corners because it tends to spring back.
Like other amniotes, turtles breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water.
Faced with growing evangelistic and pastoral responsibilities, Wesley and Whitefield appointed lay preachers and leaders.
That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses.
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The resulting recessionary local business climate caused many firms to lay off expatriate staff.
Small carvings, for a mainly lay and often female market, became a considerable industry in Paris and some other centres.
And there and then the high king stood strong and lay down too led by Richard 'Strongbow' de Clare.
Custumals were commissioned by lords who presided as lay judges over manorial courts in order to inform themselves about the court process.
Hence, amniotes can lay eggs on dry land, while amphibians generally need to lay their eggs in water.
However, the five species of monotreme, the platypus and the four species of echidna, lay eggs.
The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.
Lamellar bone also requires a relatively flat surface to lay the collagen fibers in parallel or concentric layers.
Although the Scottish kingdom had been easily conquered by King Edward, it lay restless under his rule.
After the Second World War most of Northwest Germany lay within the British Zone of Occupation.
The hierarchy of the Church played a relatively small role and the initiative was left to lay leaders.
The boni intended to prosecute Caesar for abuse of his authority upon his return, when he would lay down his imperium.
In the aftermath of Verneuil, the road appeared to lay open to take Bourges and thus bring all of France under English rule.
Five Roman roads radiated from Tours, which lay on the main thoroughfare between the Frankish north and Aquitania, with Spain beyond.
In recognition of his work as a lay preacher, the Keir Hardie Methodist Church in London bears his name.
Historically, Ulster lay at the heart of the Gaelic world made up of Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Superstitious seafarers held that beyond the cape lay sea monsters and the edge of the world.
By 1168, nearly the whole of the eastern Adriatic coast lay in Manuel's hands.
These days usually fall on a Saturday, since it was on a Saturday that Christ lay in the Tomb.
A further expedition in 1866 managed to lay a new cable in two weeks and then go on to recover and complete the 1865 cable.
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Numerous former jute mills remain standing and while some lay derelict, many have been converted for other uses.
Later in life, the matured eel tries to return to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and lay eggs.
The ranking of lay grades has been seen by many scholars as rather schematic and not reflecting realities on the ground.
It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup.
The Council is made up of 12 lay and registrant members, including one member from each of the four UK countries.
Berkeley thus concluded that forces lay beyond any kind of empirical observation and could not be a part of proper science.
Justices are lay magistrates who as advised by a legally qualified clerk, known as the legal adviser.
These are given the same status as and the same honour prices as the lay grades, and hence have effectively the same rights.
The Court of Governors is composed primarily of external lay members from whom its Chairman and Deputy Chairman are elected.
The significance of the abolition of the British slave trade lay in the number of people hitherto sold and carried by British slave vessels.
The matter went to the royal justices, who decided in 1281 that since the lands concerned lay in Wales, Welsh law should be used.
Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
The borders changed over time, but it is generally thought that its lands originally lay between the Afon Llwyd and the River Towy.
This suggests the corpses lay exposed to decompose and were interred in the burial chambers defleshed, as parcels of bone.
From 1852 until 1868 the seat was held by Henry Austen Bruce whose main industrial interests lay in the Aberdare valley.
The Edwardian castle's layout was mostly dictated by the lay of the land, although the inclusion of the previous castle's motte played a part.
In Norway, Hans Nielsen Hauge, a lay street preacher, emphasized spiritual discipline and sparked the Haugean movement.
However, a lack of priests means that many parishes in the United States must depend on lay leaders.
It was the nooning hour, and the men at their limited leisure lay in the sun on the piles of lumber, like lizards.
The legal responsibility for this area lay in the hands of the Justiciar of South Wales based at Carmarthen.
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After the boundary was established, British surveyors discovered that Point Roberts lay south of the 49th parallel.
The Court of King's Bench argued that this was a lay matter, while the High Commission claimed it fell under their jurisdiction.
The General Conference, a meeting every four years, has an equal number of clergy and lay delegates.
Such authority in the minds of lay Roman lawyers who first used this word jurisdiction was essentially temporal in its origin and in its sphere.
The question was that of lay fee, which was the equivalent of secular lands, even though it may have been held in free, pure and perpetual alms.
The lay judges do not hold any legal qualification, and represent the peers of the person on trial, as members of the general public.
The bishops were abolished by the Covenanters in 1638, when Parliament became an entirely lay assembly.
The flies lay their eggs at the end of June in the ground around the narcissi, a single female fly being able to lay up to fifty eggs.
Others, such as woodlice, lay their eggs on land, albeit in damp conditions.
No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe.
The royal family of the country are prominent members, and the late king was a lay preacher.
The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.
The greatness of the Great Reform Bill lay less in substance than in symbolism.
Most extant marine reptiles, except for some sea snakes, are oviparous and need to return to land to lay their eggs.
Officially claiming to be neutral, Finland lay in the grey zone between the Western countries and the Soviet Union.
During the Permian and Triassic periods, with the Iapetus Ocean entirely closed, Scotland lay near the centre of the Pangaean supercontinent.
The introduction ends with Julian's recounting of her sudden recovery as she lay on her deathbed gazing at a shining image of the cross.
If you lay out a platter of these exciting, beautiful vegetarian appetizers, the other apps will pale in comparison.
Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?
In North America, many birders differentiate themselves from birdwatchers, and the term birder is unfamiliar to most lay people.
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The peninsula of Anatolia lay on the commercial land routes to Europe from Asia as well as the sea route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines.
The legal right of lay patrons to present clergymen of their choice to local ecclesiastical livings led to minor schisms from the church.
The agreement can be ratified by the competent national courts and can also lay the foundation for consensual separation or divorce.
The Covent Garden estate was originally under the control of Westminster Abbey and lay in the parish of St Margaret.
The rules on burials and lay access to churches appear to have been steadily circumvented, at least unofficially.
Its strategic value increased with the opening of the Suez Canal, as it lay on the sea route between the UK and the British Empire east of Suez.
In the modern world, the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria both lay claim to this ancient heritage.
At a dinner party in London in April 1888, Grieg finally convinced Julius Delius that his son's future lay in music.
Hey, brah, do me a favor. Don't lay your guilt trip on me. Why didn't you tell her?
On the desk lay the final version of the Birth Control speech, mastered and canalized by the skilful Maisie.
Basking in the sun whether it's on the porch or on the boat, he just loves to lay out and catch some rays.
The females lay between 1,000 and 2,000 eggs which float in large clusters near the surface of the water.
In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
The site only allowed for the building to be one room deep, as a workhouse and a barracks lay immediately behind.
As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.
For example, lay one's cards on the table meaning to reveal previously unknown intentions, or to reveal a secret.
According to Celtic legend, this island lay somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
The self discipline required for rowing and the 'never say die' attitude obviously helped me through the difficult years that lay ahead.
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The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape.
In addition to traditional betting with a bookmaker, punters are able to both back and lay money on an online betting exchange.
Haye came in at the highest weight of his career, appearing to have gained a lot of muscle mass since the lay off.
He had always trusted Lucian for the cunninger insight and did it now though Lucian lay in the bishop's arms limp and senseless.
He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.
Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it.
Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.
At the same time, a series of cases made it clear that no appeal lay from the High Court of Justiciary to the House of Lords.
If we head for lay up tomorrow, those plans are right down the toilet and it's back to the drawing board.
Parts of the northern Iberian Peninsula, namely Galicia, Cantabria, Asturias and Northern Portugal, also lay claim to this heritage.
I do not doubt to lay open, by untwisting or unwinding, and either to draw up by exantlation, or display by incision.
Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience.
Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
The conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos.
Pooley's eyes suddenly alighted upon a half empty bag of cement which lay among a few unused red flettons in the corner of the patio.
He could see it gilding the ridges westward and slowly burning the fogfall that lay over Topanga Park.
However, no attempts were made to establish new states in these territories, as they lay outside the jurisdiction of West Germany at that time.
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When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching.
Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead.
Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.
Fay ceremoniously lay down in front of the measurer before the samples were taken.
Probably fuckstrated, counting on her young stud there to lay some steeler pipe, clean the cobwebs out of Little Miss Fuzzy.
Paul's, the embalmed body lay unburied for many years at Sheen Priory in Surrey.
In February 2010, Crossrail was accused of bullying residents whose property lay on the route into selling up for less than the market value.
In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
In lay circles, according to the authors' descriptions, the madness-label is a genderneutral term of abuse.
There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.
When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared.
The intention was to lay a 'pattern' like an elongated diamond, hopefully with the submarine somewhere inside it.
Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water.
Its origins lay in the discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
Executive power lay in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chief Secretary for Ireland, who were appointed by the British government.
Wroe would put a pillow in the oven, lay his head on it, and let the oven be heated as hot as he could bear it, to drive away a head cold.
Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo spear.
In the mornings hoar-frost lay thick upon the ground, and thin ice formed in currentless shallows and overlay the muskrat runways.
The Rump Parliament was recalled and there was a second period where the executive power lay with the Council of state.
With royal and lay patronage, a clearer parochial structure based around local churches was developed.
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They would lay out the streets at right angles, in the form of a square grid.
He chose the Arianizing bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, bishop of the city where he lay dying, as his baptizer.
They first requested leave from the Emperor to lay aside the cuirass and afterwards the helmet.
To the south of Sussex lay the English Channel, beyond which lay Francia, or the Kingdom of the Franks.
The term is often defined according to the conventions of the cultures that lay claim to the term in their own use.
After the plague, many farms lay idle while the population slowly increased.
As the city lay only a few miles from the Russian border, there was a risk of getting stranded in a battle zone.
Inevitably, the next-door neighbour began to mow his lawn just as she lay down her head after a long night shift.
There were several ways through which the king could raise money for war, including customs duties, money lending and lay subsidies.
The King now had full backing for collecting lay subsidies from the entire population.
The initial resistance was not caused by the lay taxes, however, but by clerical subsidies.
This bull prohibited the clergy from paying taxes to lay authorities without explicit consent from the Pope.
The political influence of the Commons originally lay in their right to grant taxes.
These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.
Bhikkhus and bhikkunis were expected to live with a minimum of possessions, which were to be voluntarily provided by the lay community.
It is considered a highly meritorious act for a lay devotee to provide sadhus with food or other necessaries.
He lay in a semi-torpor, whose most vivid consciousness was that of mental discomfort and the interminability of time.
The windmill lay between the core battlefield and Richard's camp on Ambion Hill and the rout of Norfolk's vanguard was in this direction.
Coincidentally, they lay almost directly under a roughly painted 'R' on the bitumen.
The Church of England has 18,000 active ordained clergy and 10,000 licensed lay ministers.
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In Glasgow, the volume of business required the employment of four solicitors as stipendiary magistrates who sit in place of the lay justices.
Whereas the royal supremacy had raised few eyebrows, the attack on abbeys and priories affected lay people.
This gives it the right to conduct petroleum drilling works and lay submarine cables or pipelines in its continental shelf.
At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicatedlike condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination.
By actively pursuing more than just a personal union of his realms, he helped lay the foundations for a unitary British state.
He arrived in Scotland on 22 July 1650 and proceeded to lay siege to Edinburgh.
A second stone known as 'The Pattern Stone' lay nearby, with the serpentine patterning on it.
After Rupert captured Bristol in July 1643, Charles visited the port city and lay siege to Gloucester, further up the river Severn.
There are a jajillion opinions on this. My perspective is that of a curious lay newbie.
To lay foundations for a new beginning, envoys of the States General appeared in November 1660 with the Dutch Gift.
The male line failed in 1719 with the death of his grandson, also Edmund Dunch, so no one can lay claim to the title.
The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute monarchy.
A feller that sees a lot o' jimjam visions ahead never will buck down to real life here, an' he'll never lay up a dollar or own a foot of land.
From a very early time, the township of Manchester lay within the historic or ceremonial county boundaries of Lancashire.
The problem lay in forming a primitive proposition which encompassed this and would act as the basis for all of logic.
He rented land abutting the Castle to farm, and on which to lay out trees and walks.
A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda.
Through the work of native lay evangelists, many tribes of diverse languages were reached with the Gospel.
This is generally known to the lay public as 'small claims court' but does not exist as a separate court.
The role of lay members of the House in judicial sittings began to fade in the nineteenth century.
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Immediately thereafter, lay members began to make speeches about the controversial case.
The Lord President of the Privy Council then advised that lay members should not intervene after the Law Lords had announced their opinions.
The dispute represents a significant stage in the creation of a papal monarchy separate from and equal to lay authorities.
Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the south west of the county of Lancashire.
The city was once a marcher borough, within which lay the hundred of Dewisland.
Flatfishes lay eggs that hatch into larvae resembling typical, symmetrical, fish.
The Norman settlement lay along what is now High Street between the church at its north end and the remains of a Norman motte at its south end.
Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.
Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
The town, which faces Deganwy across the River Conwy, formerly lay in Gwynedd and prior to that in Caernarfonshire.
Omnify the disputed point into a transcendent, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it.
He had managed to lay by money for college through his years as a paperboy.
I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork.
In some species, including elephant seals and grey seals, males will try to lay claim to the desired females and defend them from rivals.
There are even fish that live mostly on land or lay their eggs on land near water.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
I did not know the exact route, but steered by the lay of the land, as I do in Boston.
I'll feel the pulse of my friends and yours, and when we get the lay of the land, the affair can be accomplished much more easily.
A brief voyage to England at the end of 1923 was a failure and he soon returned to Taos, convinced that his life as an author now lay in America.
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How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?
The introductory mathematics courses will lay the groundwork for all your subsequent engineering studies.
By the 1020s the dukes were able to impose vassalage on the lay nobility as well.
In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
As his health declined, he lay on his sickbed in a room filled with inventive experiments to trace the movements of climbing plants.
Mikken lay buried in the lichyard, and the new smith was capable of little more than nails and horseshoes.
The hold lay furthest down in the ship, right above the bottom planking below the waterline.
The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him.
To get under the porch, I lay on my stomach and slithered like a snake.
Thomas Newcomen was a lay preacher and a teaching elder in the local Baptist church.
Can lay the pieces or blanks upon the die quite true and without care or practice and as fast as wanted.
Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.
The English, whose power lay in the Pale of Dublin, then began to reconquer the island.
These have been the centers of secondary and higher education in ancient times for lay people as well.
Additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services.
Dioceses are divided into parishes, each with one or more priests, deacons or lay ecclesial ministers.
These are not ordained, nor generally considered ministers unless also engaged in one of the lay minister categories above.
The incomes and living standards of lay workers are comparable to those of counterparts who work in the city of Rome.
Its origins lay in the recognition of the need for cooperation on the mission field in Africa, Asia and Oceania.
There, amid an outcry to address Anselm's situation, Urban renewed bans on lay investiture and on clerics doing homage.
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She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.
Many visitors came to see Johnson as he lay sick in bed, but he preferred only Langton's company.
The Code of Civil Procedure does, however, lay down Danish as the language of the courts.
He lay down, cuddled the blankets up to his ears, closed his eyes and composed himself to sleep, at peace with his conscience and the world.
It is held in three sessions, for the presbyterate, the diaconate and a representative session including lay representatives.
This refers to the early practice of using the tail of the mace to strike the ball when it lay against a rail cushion.
This expansion of lay preachers was one of the keys of the growth of Methodism.
The land that lay between the Ribble and Mersey, Inter Ripam et Mersam, was included in the returns for Cheshire.
All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.
One of the daughters was beaten unconscious as she lay recovering from surgery.
About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
The monastic life in Buddhism have additional precepts as part of patimokkha, and unlike lay people, transgressions by monks do invite sanctions.
Nor does it behove western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it.
And beyond lay the pasture I had crossed on my way from the station then more fields rising towards a dark rim of hills.
At the front of the palace lay the St George's Hall range, which combined a new hall and a new chapel.
The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
They typically perform at Evensong twice every month, often with the lay clerks of the cathedral choir.
If it was necessary to seize control of a castle an army could either launch an assault or lay siege.
John was brought back to the kingdom, and with this came the support to serve the possible epic maritime adventure that lay ahead.

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