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

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

To come or go; as, lay aloft, lay forward, lay aft, lay out.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Sometimes Gigi felt faint and ill, and lay forward, resting his head on the dog's soft neck.

From John of the Woods by Brown, Abbie Farwell

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

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes