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Lie down   /laɪ daʊn/   Listen
Lie down

verb
1.
Assume a reclining position.  Synonym: lie.  Antonym: arise.






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"Lie down" Quotes from Famous Books



... I coldly to Brown, "let Miss White retire and lie down. This meteoric shower is over and so ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... likely that it would be so, Knapp. You have made it fast now, I suppose? That is right. Now lie down and get an hour or two of sleep; it is scarce likely that he ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty

... pestilential place, and utterly without the power to hope for comfort, I could neither sit nor lie down: there was no room. I was placed as it were in a hole in the wall; and those walls, terrible to look on of themselves, hemmed me in on every side. I could not breathe. There was no light, but all was thick darkness. I do not understand how it is; though there was no light, yet everything that ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila

... stiliness sat supreme, Flee seers in quest of lagging rest; To regions where giant echos roar, Haste begotten sons in this lair: There man-born wrecks lie down and dream Of sea-winds that foam-billows bless'd, Of auric realms where censers pour Violaceous fumes thro' the air. And in the deep-hued depths of gore, (Blind bowels in Betelguese's hold) Gyte vandals that a Dragon ...
— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque

... to lie down to take some sleep, at a place about half a mile distant from the river, while he himself, with two attendants, went down to watch the ford. He stood looking at the ford, and thinking how easily the enemy might be kept from passing there, provided it was bravely defended, ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie


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