Lying-in Sentence Examples

She was lying in her bedroom, on her bed.

The sight of it lying in two pieces was gratifying.

Not only was there a traitor at the Peak, but there were an untold number of insurgents lying in wait.

Though he took an oath to take care of her, he'd never expected she'd be lying in his bed, helpless against his world.

I know you're there, lying in a tree like one of the great cats you track.

As she climbed the porch steps she noticed something lying in front of the door.

As she ascended the porch steps, she noticed two books lying in the rocker.

The defences of the place are now solely confined to the island of Danholm, known down to the 13th century as Strehla or Strehlo, lying in the Sound.

The country is rolling and hilly, the Blue Hills (with the exception of a part included in Braintree in 1712 and now in Quincy) lying in Milton.

Wolves do not catch their prey by lying in ambush, or stealing up close and making a sudden spring, but by fairly running it down in open chase, which their speed and remarkable endurance enable them to do.

The heart c lying in the pericardium is seen in close proximity to the renal organ, and consists of a single auricle receiving blood from the gill, and of a single ventricle which pumps it through the body by an anterior and posterior aorta.

Thus a mass or chain of embryos is produced, lying in a common cyst, and developing as their larval host develops.

Macleay indeed never pretended to a high position in this branch of science, his tastes lying in the direction of Entomology; but few of their countrymen knew more of birds than did Swainson and Vigors; and, while the latter, as editor for many years of the Zoological Journal, and the first secretary of the Zoological Society, has especial claims to the regard of all zoologists, so the former's indefatigable pursuit of Natural History, and conscientious labour in its behalf-among other ways by means of his graceful pencil-deserve to be remembered as a set-off against the injury he unwittingly caused.

But the Venetians, in face of the danger, once more removed their capital, this time to Rialto, that group of islands we now call Venice, lying in mid-lagoon between the lidi and the mainland.

Yet farther south, and still lying in line down the centre of the island, are Sankyakunan zan (3752 ft.), Shurogi-zan (5729 ft.), Poren-zan (4957 ft.), and Kado-zan (9055 ft.), and, finally, in the south-east Arugan-zan (4985 ft.).

The former held the territory of Clanricarde, lying in the neighbourhood of Galway, and in 1543 their chief, as Ulick "Bourck, alias Makwilliam," surrendered it to Henry VIII., receiving it back to hold, by English custom, as earl of Clanricarde and Lord Dunkellin.

Nay more, the difficulties of all kinds against which Eugenius had to contend, the insurrection at Rome, which forced him to escape by the Tiber, lying in the bottom of a boat, left him at first little chance of resisting the enterprises of the council.

Santa Catharina and Maranhao have well-sheltered harbours formed by an island lying in the mouth of a large bay, but the latter is shallow and difficult of access.

Then the displacement at 0 will take place in a direction perpendicular to 0 1 0, and lying in the plane Z0 1 0; and, if 1' be the displacement at 0, reckoned positive in the direction nearest to that in which the incident vibrations are reckoned positive, = 4?y (1 +cos 0) sin 4 f' (bt - r).

StMarylebone contains a great number of hospitals, among which are the Middlesex, Mortimer Street; Throat Hospital and Dental Hospital and School, Great Portland Street; Lying-in and Ophthalmic Hospitals, Marylebone Road; Samaritan Hospital for women, Seymour Street; Consumption Hospital, Margaret Street; and the Home for incurable children, St John's Wood Road.

Fortunately, although the draft of an ultimatum was lying in the state secretary's office in Pretoria, the Boers, unprepared in departmental arrangements which are necessary in large military operations, were unable to take the field with the promptitude that the situation demanded.

A modern Bedouin equivalent has long sleeves; it is common to both sexes, the chief difference lying in the colour - white for men, dyed with indigo for women.

These cells of various shapes are seen in large numbers, mainly lying in a direction parallel to the new vessels and capillaries, which all run at right angles to the wound surface.

Of the five synagogues, the chief (or Hauptsynagoge), lying in the Bornestrasse, is an attractive building of red sandstone in the Moorish-Byzantine style.

It is an oldfashioned place on the skirts of Savernake Forest, lying in a valley of the chalk uplands known as Marlborough Downs, and traversed by the river Kennet.

While he was lying in a swoon some one near him exclaimed, " They run; see how they run!"

It entered the Thames, forced the entrance of the Medway, and burnt both the dockyard at Chatham and a number of the finest ships in the navy which were lying in the river.

But the Greenland colony was obscure, the country was believed to form part of Europe, and the records of the farther explorations were contained in sagas which were only rediscovered by modern scholarship. Throughout the middle ages, legendary tales of mythical lands lying in the western ocean - the Isle of St Brandan, of Brazil and Antilia - had been handed down.

When the Genoese appeared off Meloria the Pisans were lying in the river Arno at the mouth of which lay Porto Pisano the port of the city.

The " Challenger " and other oceanographic expeditions have shown that on the bottom of the deep sea concretions of phosphate are now gathering around the dead bodies of fishes lying in the oozes; consequently the formation of the concretions may have been carried on simultaneously with the deposition of the strata in which they occur.

Systematic instruction in these subjects is given at some fifty lying-in institutions in different parts of the kingdom.

According to a well-known story, a young woman in humble circumstances, whose father (or mother) was lying in prison under sentence of death, without food, managed to gain admittance, and fed her parent with milk from her breast.

Other leading works are - in Munich, the "Virgin" sinking on her knees in adoration of the Divine Infant, who is lying in a garden within a rose trellis; in the Borghese gallery, Rome, a Peter Martyr; in Bologna, the frescoes in the church of St Cecilia, illustrating the life of the saint, all of them from the design of Raibolini, but not all executed by himself.

The frescoes in the choir, with scenes from the life of St John the Baptist and St Stephen, are by Fra Filippo Lippi (1456-1466) and are his best work; the dance of Salome and the lying in state of St Stephen are the finest of the series.

Among hospitals those of special general interest are the Steevens, the oldest in the city, founded under the will of Dr Richard Steevens in 1720; the Mater Misericordiae (1861),which includes a laboratory and museum, and is managed by the Sisters of Mercy, but relieves sufferers independently of their creed; the Rotunda lying-in hospital (1756); the Royal hospital for incurables, Donnybrook, which was founded in 1744 by the Dublin Musical Society; and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital, Adelaide Road, which amalgamated (1904) two similar institutions.

Thus the prairies may be described as lying in a general way between the Ohio and Missouri rivers on the south and the Great Lakes on the north.

The gill axis d is seen lying in the sub-pallial chamber between the foot b and the mantle c. From it depend the gillfilaments or lamellae - formed by united filaments - drawn as black lines f.

The uterus or womb is a pear-shaped, very thick-walled, muscular bag, lying in the pelvis between the bladder and rectum.

These break off and, lying in the coelomic fluid, break up into spermatozoa.

The largest island is New Pomerania, and the archipelago also includes New Mecklenburg, New Hanover, with small attendant islands, the Admiralty Islands and a chain of islands off the coast of New Guinea, the whole system lying in the form of a great amphitheatre of oval shape.

Several fishing villages occur along this coast, of which none is more picturesque than Staithes, lying in a steep gully in the cliff.

It consists of the sovereign, chancellor, secretary and five classes - knights grand commanders, knights commanders, commanders and members of the fourth and fifth classes, the distinction between these last divisions lying in the badge and in the precedence enjoyed by the members.

The labial commissure gives off a subradular commissure which also bears two ganglia, these being in close relation to a special sense-organ called the subradular organ, an epithelial projection with nerve-endings, lying in front of the radula and probably gustatory in function.

This is the most westerly town in England, lying in a wild district 1 m.

The water should be run off thoroughly, for a little stagnant water lying in places upon the surface does much injury.

Other hospitals are the Royal, for children and women, Waterloo Road, the Lying-in Hospital, York Road, and the South-western fever hospital in Stockwell.

These are Franconia (Franken), which embraces the districts of Bamberg, Schweinfurt and Wurzburg on the upper Main; Swabia (Schwaben), in which is included Wtirttemberg, parts of Bavaria and Baden and Hohenzollern; the Palatinate (Pfalz), embracing Bavaria west of the Rhine and the contiguous portion of Baden; Rhineland, applied to Rhenish Prussia, Nassau, Hesse-Darmstadt and parts of Bavaria and Baden; Vogtland, the mountainous country lying in the south-west corner of the kingdom of Saxony; Lusatia (Lausitz), the eastern portion of the kingdom of Saxony and the adjacent portion of Prussia watered by the upper Spree; Thuringia (Thulingen), the country lying south of the Harz Mountains and including the Saxon duchies; East Frlesland (Ost Friesland), the country lying between the lower course of the Weser and the Ems, and Westphalia (Westfalen), the fertile plain lying north and west of the Harz Mountains and extending to the North Sea and the Dutch frontier.

As in the south of England, the lower beds of the Cretaceous are of estuarine origin and the Upper Cretaceous overlaps the Lower, lying in the valley of the Ruhr directly upon the Palaeozoic rocks.

The wealth of Egypt lying in the cultivation of its soil, almost all the exports are agricultural produce, while the imports are mostly manufactured goods, minerals and hardware.

The interest of the money lying in the hands of the Caisse goes towards meeting the debt charges and thus reduces the amount needed from the land tax.

On some of the platforms there are upwards of a dozen images, now thrown from their pedestals and lying in all directions.

Rock-tarns are small lakes lying in rock-basins on the sides of mountains or the summits of ridges, and on rocky plateaus or plains.

Among the Southern Uplands the best-known and one of the most picturesque is the wild and lonely Loch Skene, lying in a recess of Whitecoomb at the head of Moffat Water.

The German portion of the peninsula is generally similar to that of western Jutland, the main difference lying in the occurrence of islands (the North Frisian) off the west coast in place of sand-bars and lagoons.

Their favourite prey is sheep, but tribe, they are also said to run down antelopes and hares, or rather catch them by lying in ambush.

The Blue Ridge and Newer Appalachian regions are covered with pine, hemlock, white oak, cherry and yellow poplar; while that portion of these provinces lying in the S.W.

Sylvester discovered that this property of the parallelogram is not confined to points lying in one line with the fixed point.

It has a picturesque situation in what is known as "the Four-Lakes region"; this region takes its name from a chain of lakes, Kegonsa, Waubesa, Monona and Mendota, which, lying in the order named and connected with one another by the Yahara or Catfish River, form the head-waters of Rock river flowing southward through Illinois into the Mississippi.

Will, according to Mr Spencer, is only another aspect of what is reason, memory or feeling - the difference lying in the fact that as will the nascent excitation (ideal motion) is conceived as passing into complete or full motion.

The custom of placing lighted candles round the bodies of the dead, especially when " lying in state," has never wholly died out in Protestant countries, though their significance has long been lost sight of.

Early in 1850 more than 500 vessels were lying in the bay, most of them deserted by their crews.

In a striking form of the experiment, the water is contained, to the depth of perhaps one inch, in a large flat dish, and the operative part of the surface is limited by a flexible hoop of thin sheet brass lying in the dish and rising above the water-level.

In this case drops which break away with different velocities are carried under the action of gravity into different paths; and thus under ordinary circumstances a jet is apparently resolved into a " sheaf," or bundle of jets all lying in one vertical plane.

It had been the usual practice of previous paymasters to appropriate to themselves the interest of all money lying in their hands by way of advance, and also to accept a commission of Z% on all foreign subsidies.

In June 1598 he left Holland and proceeded to Paris, where on the 10th of April 1 599 he saw the body of Gabrielle d'Estrees lying in state.

The city has a well-built and substantial appearance, its chief attraction lying in the numerous churches, which belong in the main to a well-marked basilican type, and present almost too richly decorated exteriors, fine apsidal ends and quadrangular campaniles, in some cases with battlemented summits, and windows increasing in number as they ascend.

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Kirchhoff's contributions to mathematical physics were numerous and important, his strength lying in his powers of stating a new physical problem in terms of mathematics, not merely in working out the solution after it had been so formulated.

The streets are laid out on the comparatively level tract behind the firth, the older thoroughfares and buildings lying in the centre.

After a nine-hours' truce the palace was stormed, and Boniface was found lying in his bed, a cross clasped to his breast; that he was sitting in full regalia on the papal throne is a legend.

This thread gives rise to a spiral ciliated band lying in a depression on the body of each spermatozoid; the large spermatozoids eventually escape from the pollen-tube, and are able to perform ciliary movements in the watery liquid which occurs between the thin papery remnant of nucellar tissue and the archegonial necks.

From inclination and from weak health he never engaged much in practice as a physician, his interests lying in the deeper problems of medical and physiological science.

These plains slope gently toward the east, those of the Amazon basin apparently lying in great terraces whose escarpments have the character of low, detached ranges of hills forming successive rims to the great basin which they partly enclose.

At midnight he awoke; the dancing-girls were lying in the ante-room; an overpowering loathing filled his soul.

It also includes the ocean frontage of Marajo, an island about the size of the kingdom of Denmark lying in the mouth of the Amazon.

For an acnodal cubic the six imaginery inflections disappear, and there remain three real inflections lying in a line.

Below K the fuel is lying in a conical heap, leaving the ring channel A free.

A little of it is used for fuel for the engines and for bedding the stock; but the bulk of it is dragged away from the threshing machine by machinery, and left lying in great heaps until an opportunity is afforded for burning it up. This is usually done immediately before the ploughing in the autumn.

In order to represent in the figure the 2 position of the f u ndamental plane, we conceive a circle to be drawn round 0, lying in that plane.

These rays come to a focus at a point F lying in the focal plane of the telescope.

Thus, Tirol, Styria and Carinthia belong, like Switzerland, to the system of the Alps, but these provinces together with those lying in the basin of the Danube form, nevertheless, a compact stretch of country.

Farther east and lying in the centre of the book-trade quarter stand close together the Buchhandlerhaus (booksellers' exchange), the great hall decorated with allegorical pictures by Sascha Schneider, and the Buchgewerbehaus, a museum of the book trade, both handsome red brick edifices in the German Renaissance style, erected in 1886-1890.

Much of what then formed the bottom of this sea consisted until modern times of marshes and waste lands lying in the vicinity of its numerous rivers.

Four floral regions lying in north to south belts across the state, and closely corresponding to - though in boundaries by no means coinciding with - its great topographic divisions are distinguished in the regions of the Missouri border, the prairies, sand-hills and foot-hills.

Very powerful simple microscopes have hardly any depth of definition so that in fact only points lying in one plane can be seen sharply with one focusing.

With powerful systems, object-points lying quite near the plane focused for would be represented by such large dispersion circles that practically only the points lying in one plane appear simultaneously sharp; and it is only by varying the focus that the object-points lying in other planes can be observed.

The leaf-traces, where they traverse the cortex, have the structure of the foliar bundles in Cycads, for they are of the collateral type, and their xylem is mesarch, the spiral elements lying in the interior of the ligneous strand.

From time to time additional land on the mainland has been acquired by cession or purchase, and the adjoining island of Perim, lying in the actual mouth of the strait, was permanently occupied in 1857.

With these is often included the rocky islet of Fatuhuku or Hood, lying in mid-channel to the north of Hivaoa.

Never mind she felt awed by how sexy he was lying in bed beside her, his muscular chest inches from her and his large hand resting possessively on her stomach.

The thought of Toni lying in the driveway made her chest tighten.

For instance, a chap called Dave spent the entire evening lying in a bath of pink blancmange!

There are many well placed pot bunkers lying in wait to catch the errant shot.

A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him.

The boy may be lying in a shallow grave or in a Chinese gulag.

They were left lying in their own blood in the living areas and other internees were not allowed to help in any way.

The most popular measure used to ensure that the Veress needle is lying in free intraperitoneal space is the saline drop test.

Here you can view the quite ornate Borthwick effigies lying in their serene setting.

Natalie isnât stupid; having smelled a rat, she is lying in wait.

No, it was an old scarecrow lying in the hedge!

We've got the sad sounding ' Lying In The Snow ', another song of breath-taking beauty.

We came round a corner, and found an immense stingray, lying in a ' cove ' .

But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!

As I neared the clump of lemon grass, I saw two huge vipers, probably 8ft each, lying in the sun.

A desultory sequence of ideas, an excessive vagueness and indirectness of expression, a peculiar and abnormal latinity, a constant tendency to exaggeration, and an immoderate indulgence in learned and literary allusions - all these are obstacles lying in the way of a study of Propertius.

The best railways of the United States and Canada have, indeed; been greatly improved, and their main lines approach the high standards of safety which prevail in Great Britain, both as regards maintenance and care of roadway and vehicles (as a preventive of derailments) and the use of the block system (as a preventive of collisions); but when the inquirer looks at America as a whole - the total length of lines in the United States being over 230,000 m., ten times the total of the United Kingdom - he is considering a figure which includes an enormous mileage of railway lying in thinly settled regions where the high standards of safety maintained on the best railways have scarcely been thought of.

Holberg took no rest, and before the end of 1723 the comedies of Barselstuen (The Lying-in Room), The Eleventh of July, Jakob von Thyboe, Den Bundeslose (The Fidget), Erasmus Montanus, Don Ranudo, Ulysses of Ithaca, Without Head or Tail, Witchcraft and Melampe had all been written, and some of them acted.

The duct which runs along its upper and internal border passes forwards in the usual course, lying in the inner side of the sublingual gland, to open on the outer surface of a distinct papilla, situated on the floor of the mouth, half an inch from the middle line, and midway between the lower incisor teeth and the attachment of the fraenum linguae.

You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there's the bridge.

Amid the powder smoke, slowly dispersing over the whole space through which Napoleon rode, horses and men were lying in pools of blood, singly or in heaps.

Another man--Timokhin--was lying in a corner on the benches beneath the icons, and two others--the doctor and a valet--lay on the floor.

He was lying in a squirrel-fur dressing gown on a divan, surrounded by pillows.

He dreamed that he was lying in the room he really was in, but that he was quite well and unwounded.

In the summer in Sweden the pike can be found lying in the shallow reedy margins of the lakes.

No, it was an old scarecrow lying in the hedge !

We 've got the sad sounding ' Lying In The Snow ', another song of breath-taking beauty.

We came round a corner, and found an immense stingray, lying in a ' cove '.

Now, even Chalabi admits he was lying in order to topple Iraqi regime.

But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever !

Imagine lying in a plastic bed for a long period of time on a thin mattress and you'll get the idea.

When you ask yourself "Should I buy a memory foam or latex matress", you've probably already experienced uncomfortable sleeping or strange contours when lying in bed.

An affected cat will show symptoms of discomfort when walking and lying in certain positions.

It may be lying in a cool area on the floor or sitting hunched up.

A bunk bed with a desk underneath that isn't properly constructed can be dangerous for anyone lying in the bed or working at the desk.

The rough stone hearth contrasts with the smooth stone floor, intended to resemble stones lying in a creek bed.

Whether they're sitting at a desk doing homework, or lying in bed reading before going to sleep, it's important they have sufficient lighting.

If you have a teen in your life, you know they love to spend a lot of time lying in the sun.

When you use a tanning bed or lying in the sun, your skin begins to produce melanin to protect itself from burning.

You won't be able to find pathological lying in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR).

Being unable to admit to having made a mistake may be part of the reason for a pattern of compulsive lying in children.

It stands to reason that addressing lying in a constructive manner as soon as a habit becomes apparent can go a long way toward preventing a chronic lying habit in the future.

Most people would agree that compulsive lying that hurts other people is not something that they should be doing, but they may be more likely to excuse habitual lying in themselves if they feel they have a good reason for doing so.

There are plenty of people lying in wait for his Karma to come back to him.

Cattle that are dead, dying, and diseased or disabled (the "4 D's") can be used in pet food, and the dead cattle may have been lying in a pasture for days rotting.

Even though you might be lying in bed for the optimal amount of time, if you're not sleeping normally, it's going to be hard to be fully awake throughout the day.

When you're outdoors playing sports, walking in the park, lying in the sun for relaxation, or just dashing to and from your car on errands, the sun is doing its work on your body, including your eyes if you leave them uncovered.

This research also reveals a correlation between higher IQ and the incidence of lying in children.

The motives for lying in this age group are more complex.

Children commonly experiment with lying in the natural course of development.

Early parental intervention in situations of serious lying may interrupt the formation of a habit of lying in young children.

It may also include training for proper limb positioning while seated in a wheelchair or lying in bed.

It can only be tried if there is one fetus in the uterus, if the placenta is not lying in front of the fetus, and if the umbilical cord does not appear to be wrapped around the fetus at any point.

The Moro reflex (or startle reflex) occurs when an infant is lying in a supine position and is stimulated by a sudden loud noise that causes rapid or sudden movement of the infant's head.

The therapy may include training for proper limb positioning while seated in a wheelchair or lying in bed.

For some individuals with trichotillomania, certain situations, such as watching TV, lying in bed, or talking on the phone, will trigger the behavior.

This means when you are lying in the bed, you should able to see the door fully, without strain.

The doctor will perform an ultrasound to locate where the baby is lying in the mother's belly.

When lying in the sand, it's important to choose the right blanket.

Floral prints are the most popular and make a nice choice, as you can imagine you're lying in a garden.

The image is an aerial shot that shows a young woman lying in a purple inner tube in a very blue swimming pool.

This might mean spending quality time together or just lying in bed and talking.

Howard Storm, a former atheist, died in the hospital and felt as though he'd woken up but realized that his body was still lying in the bed.

If you don't have a pile of old books lying in your attic, you'll need to visit garage sales, secondhand stores, or flea markets to pick an assortment of books to alter.

This way, there aren't any emails that are accidentally forwarded or invitation cards left lying in sight of the birthday person.