"Laying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... once. I went there one night with the purpose of laying it, but, on its appearing suddenly, I confess I was so startled, that I not only forgot what I had rehearsed to say, but ran home, without uttering ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... believe we can find out all about this truly great and national subject till we get to heaven, where the human race, strapped and unstrapped, if any, can meet together and laying down their harps discuss how they ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... be meeting all requirements, and he had added to his fleet. Jo, however, remained conservative. She had seen rag towns spring up on railroad grades before—many of them—only to disappear forever with the laying of the steel. Still, she had confidence in the farming possibilities of Paloma Rancho—but she bought no more equipment, principally, perhaps, because she could not get desirable jerkline skinners, and because extra equipment ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... make more by laying that I'd make him take the count in the first minute of the round—you can place a hundred of mine on that, ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... me to the Abbot, who gave me that letter which you have, and bade me take it and tell the case to whoever commanded here. Then he lifted up his hand and, laying it on the crucifix about his neck, swore that this was no idle threat, but that unless his terms were taken, Harflete should hang from the tower top at to-morrow's dawn, adding, though I knew not what he meant, 'I think you'll find ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
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