"Lay over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slice them, and lay over the top; sprinkle with brown crumbs, and bake for about 20 ...
— The Skilful Cook - A Practical Manual of Modern Experience • Mary Harrison
... hill, which may be some ten thousand feet in height, is large and irregular. Our trail lay over its south-eastern shoulder. After a little ride through the woods we came out abruptly on a vast rolling plain sloping to the north-east, and broadening as it fell away from us until, with intervals of belts of wood, it ended in a much larger plain on ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... momentary light of these torches, parties of fugitives encountered each other, some hurrying toward the sea, others flying from the sea back to the land; for the ocean had retreated rapidly from the shore—an utter darkness lay over it, and upon its groaning and tossing waves the storm of cinders and rock fell without the protection which the streets and roofs afforded to the land. Wild—haggard—ghastly with supernatural fears, these ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... had dropped and the sun blazed in the clear blue of the sky, which hung full of unravelled white cloud-threads, showing gold at the edges. A gay light lay over all the young green; the huge fields were full of waving corn, which swayed and bowed and straightened again, shining in streaks as under clear, transparent water. The trees stood turned to the sun, ...
— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels
... be Ralph's sentence. The solemn quiet and the air of rich and comfortable tranquillity which the palace wore, and which had impressed itself on his mind even in the hundred yards he had walked in it, gave him an added sense of what it was that lay over his brother, the huge passionless forces with which he had ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson
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