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 Richard Henry Dana
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 Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
As it flashed the doctor leaned towards Julian, who lay forward with his arms stretched along the table.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
I lay forward, and my uncle behind me in such a position that he could see hardly anything of our flight.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
