lay forward

Example Sentences

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He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Her red 254 hair lay forward in two long glittering braids.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

Bill, the fireman, was crouched, half asleep, beside the clanking engine, and two very sick men lay forward beneath a ragged tarpaulin.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold

Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it, if it blows very fresh.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

After it had passed, he lay forward on the organ a while, with his head bowed on his arms.

From Ole Mammy's Torment by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)