"And I ___ me down with a will": R.L.S.

Usage examples of laid.

With a sob he laid his head on my shoulder and cried like a wearied child, whilst he shook with emotion.

When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had supped, and found a cold breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot by the pot being placed on the hearth.

I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster.

He grew excited as he spoke, and walked about the room pulling his great white moustache and grasping anything on which he laid his hands as though he would crush it by main strength.

To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit.

The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in their places to be hammered home.

I knew I must reach the body for the key, so I raised the lid, and laid it back against the wall.

He pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab, on which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff.

What he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.

The poor fellow was laid to rest near our seat so that we stood on it, when the time came and saw everything.

Van Helsing took some things from his bag and laid them on a little table out of sight.

They lifted off the body of my dear mother, and laid her, covered up with a sheet, on the bed after I had got up.

We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her throat.

Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of death to go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so that the poor clay might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest.

It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the UnDead cannot bear, and other things which they shun.