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

It was getting on to ten o'clock now, and he sat, or, rather, lay forward with his head in his arms over the desk under the lighted lamp.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

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

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

Tom lay forward on the neck of his steed and drove the spurs into him.

From Hunting the Lions by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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