reclined

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Reclined on a hospital bed in Arlington, Texas, with plastic tubes snaking from her nose and pneumonia in both of her lungs, the 57-year-old had a message for everyone doubting the need for covid-19 restrictions.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

Reclined on a bench during the games on Sunday, Mr. Rowe held a microphone and narrated each play as he has since 2008, conversing with the audience and doling out signature catchphrases.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014

Revers’d that spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl’d, That like a deathful meteor gleam’d afar, And brav’d the mighty monarchs of the world.—

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Reclined in his boat, George Cadurcis watched the vanishing villa of the Herberts, until the light in the principal chamber was the only sign that assured him of its site.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Reclined in yonder deep recess, Ofttimes she would, at evening, lie Watching the sun; she seemed to bless With happy glance the glorious sky.

From Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Brontë, Charlotte