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Example sentences for "lying down"

  • Christian workers especially need to learn the lesson of "lying down," We are restless; we fume and worry and fret because we are tired and hungry.

  • This breakage necessitated the sheep's lying down for a week or more.

  • Our "lying down" must fit us for "walking.

  • These times of "lying down" may be likened to the plunge.

  • Where the breathing organs are weak, this cough is caused by an extra flow of blood to them, especially on lying down, the blood acting as an irritant by pressing where it should not.

  • Where there is difficulty in breathing on lying down, usually the heart is at fault.

  • Lying down, and lying comfortably on the face, greatly assists circulation.

  • Ordinarily we are not aware of the beating of the heart, enormous as is the work it does; but in certain cases this beating becomes distressingly violent, especially on lying down flat or in ascending hills or stairs.

  • The general symptoms are ameliorated by lying down.

  • Pains and sickness of stomach better by lying down.

  • The same effect can be produced by drop doses of Mullein oil, the teasing cough which comes on lying down, preventing the sleep usually yielding to a few doses.

  • I have a sore, weak, bruised feeling all over the small of my back; feels very weak when standing or moving about; better sitting or lying down.

  • Whatever weight is employed, let it be carried upon the top of the head, holding the chin close to the neck, thirty minutes in the morning, and about the same time before lying down at night.

  • It is an excellent practice to drink one or two glasses of cold water on lying down at night, and on rising in the morning.

  • Having once more entered into the definite conditions of this regimental life, Rostov felt the joy and relief a tired man feels on lying down to rest.

  • Daniel rose a little, took a step, and with his whole weight, as if lying down to rest, fell on the wolf, seizing her by the ears.

  • Billie, after the other had left him, to enter the bunk house, with the avowed intention of lying down.

  • Lying down, they would be completely sheltered from the French artillery and, if attacked, they could line the bank and fire without showing more than their heads.

  • The steering oar was lashed in its position, the sail spread over the whole of the stern of the boat, every drop of water was baled out and, lying down side by side, they were soon fast asleep.

  • I am lying down, and holding on with one hand and my ice-axe.

  • Then, lying down, he held his hands close to the edge, giving quite another three feet to the length.

  • Wounded in bush he runs straight on for some little distance, then turns back and takes a line close to and parallel with his up-tracks, lying down or concealing himself behind a patch of cover.

  • To begin with, as a rule, game is not so easy to approach when feeding as when standing about or lying down.

  • A lion has a still better chance than either, as his head is much nearer to the ground, whether the beast is standing or lying down, and he has both a better chance of seeing and of hearing the sportsman’s approach.

  • It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye, but to get through was more hopeless than ever.

  • Lying down under a rock, they sent two of their servants, with the two strongest remaining camels, in search of water.

  • Lying down treatment if begun early arrests this disease often.

  • Regular hours should be kept and at least ten hours out of twenty-four should be spent in lying down.

  • When cow is lying down it flows more abundantly, soiling the tail, etc.

  • At first the animal shows no constitutional disturbances, but eventually it becomes weak and shows signs of abdominal pain by looking around to the flank, throwing the feet together, lying down, or moving restlessly.

  • So they parted, the old countess, lying down, going over her documents, and the young one lighter than she arrived, but with her heart aching at not having baffled the old litigant who easily defeated the king of France.

  • He does not know of a night, in lying down, that he will not wake in the Bastille.

  • Instead of lying down for a rest as her brother suggested, she took a bath of milk for her complexion, and was ready by six for the hairdresser.

  • I take comfort in the thought that the Shepherd of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps; that He is ever bending over me his watchful, untiring eye, compassing my path and my lying down, and holding up my doings that my footsteps do not stumble.

  • Guard their couch and mine this night; give us refreshing sleep, lying down in Thy fear, and awaking in Thy favor, fitted for all the duties of a new day.

  • Lying down in Thy fear may I awake in Thy favor, fitted for all the duties of a new day; and all I ask is for Jesus' sake.

  • Thou hast compassed my path and my lying down.

  • We saw where some people had been lying down.

  • He was looking at a place where some one had been lying down.

  • Turning Eagle, show me the place where those people were lying down.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    body temperature; could find; dead body; defend themselves; during the whole time; hardly ever; inch from; like some; linen paper; long while; lying back; lying between; lying dead; lying down; lying flat; lying tongue; prejudice against; return from; second concert; sell papers; since first; steam engines; true religion; water down; whence came; would love