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vb. (present participle of lie down English)
Usage examples of "lying down".
Even more than she didn't want to see Kuhn again erect while lying down, she didn't want to revisit the Palais de Justice.
He wondered if so much had ever ridden on a man and a woman's lying down together.
Jane enjoyed the warmth and the lying down almost as much as the sex.
They were all on edge, sometimes starting at nothing and, again, lying down in any patch of long grass that offered.
The party lying down would moan a good deal in their sleep, and I would often notice a man--not always the same man, it is to be understood, but nearly all of them at one time or other--sitting moaning at his oar, or in his place, as he looked mistily over the sea.
This immense black obelisk, thus bounded by the two white sheets of the sky and the river, of great breadth at this place, produced on Dom Claude a singular effect, which may be compared with that which would be experienced by a man lying down on his back at the foot of the steeple of Strasburg Cathedral, and looking at its enormous shaft piercing above his head the penumbra of the twilight.
Somewhat relieved on this point, I instructed Sawyer to rouse me at nine o'clock next morning, and, lying down on the bed in my dressing-gown, assumed a comfortable attitude, and surrendered myself to the manipulations of the mesmerizer.
I walked towards the northeast coast over against Blefuscu, and lying down behind a hillock, took out my small pocket perspective-glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men-of-war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave order (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.
Whatever the Staff and Cabinet may think, the RMN won't take that lying down.
Before lying down to slumber, he placed the jewel cases under the pillow.
At that instant she wanted nothing more than for him to do her the courtesy of lying down in the street behind her car so she could back over him.
His wish was complied with and he was left lying down and alone, for he desired this, and even that the door should be locked.
The Maratha slave had finished his prayers and was lying down on his pallet in preparation for sleep.