Sentence examples for before us lay from inspiring English sources

Before us lay a long yet well-lit road.

Before us lay a long walk up to Dumont d'Urville Station, one of France's two Antarctic mainland research stations.

Before us lay the patchwork sprawl of the camp, the battered cityscape of Port-au-Prince and, in the smoggy distance, mountains and ocean.

Before us lay a wrinkled survey of Brooklyn teen-age fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century, from Canal Jean Co. to Woodbury Common.

Before us lay, as far as we knew, a rural area of Spain with an ancient religious route leading to Santiago de Compostela and a climate like that of England, hardly the Spain of reputation.

And before us lay a classic Alpine landscape: snow-blanketed gray crags dissolving into evergreen forests dotted with peak-roofed chalets; on the valley floor, a small river wended its way toward the Rhone.

"Right before us lies the Red Sea of War".

The case before us lies at the intersection of these basic principles.

Before us lies the imminent prospect of the cloning of a human being.

Before us lie long months of effort and of challenge, and we understand that.

"Before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell".