Lain [verb]

She felt sure that the significance of the whole occurrence had lain in her own self-consciousness.

The letter had lain at his Club three days, it was dated Switzerland and the postmark was Montreux.

The same, after having lain against a wall for two months and nine days longer.

I have lain down at four o'clock these two mornings, Glennie having kindly relieved my watching at that hour.

A somewhat similar case occurs where the wind bears sand against window panes or a bottle which has long lain on the shore.

She clasped her thin hands in a frenzy of impotent rage—with Anne Ashton had lain the real triumph, with herself the sacrifice.

If a man, after his father, has lain in the bosom of his mother, one shall burn them both of them together.

Tessa had slept fitfully; Sue had lain perfectly quiet, not speaking again or moving.

The vessel with which she collided was her sister ship which had lain alongside of her in London Docks.

Thus had she lain and thus had she slept during all those dreadful minutes, when her future hung, trembling in the balance.