"Lay down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over the heavens, but Bulba always went to bed early. He lay down on a rug and covered himself with a sheepskin pelisse, for the night air was quite sharp and he liked to lie warm when he was at home. He was soon snoring, and the whole household speedily followed his ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... that I was not a party sufferer with the rest, I lay down, and for the first time for many weeks fell into a sound sleep. How long I slept, I know not: it may have been days; but I awoke at last by the sound of voices, and found that the people on board of a vessel bound from Mexico ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat
... majestic in its eternal solitude. She was on the brink of some terrible disaster. She knew enough of her uncle's character to realize that. She spent the entire day without even looking at her beloved fiddle, and after the night closed in, she lay down, thoroughly exhausted. ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... lay down this for a truth; That it is not any Spirit only by, and of itself, without it do take the nature of man, that can be a Saviour ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... 'the phantom has the characteristic quality of not being visible to all of an assembled company,' and he adds 'to assert or imply that they are visible sometimes, and to some persons, but not always, or to everyone, is to lay down an explanation of facts which is not, indeed, our usual modern explanation, but which is a perfectly rational and ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
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