Sentence examples for lay the book from inspiring English sources

By his head lay the book.

He loved to put himself to sleep at night with a detective story; on his bedside table at Warm Springs, Ga., lay the book he was reading before he died, "The Punch and Judy Murders," by John Dickson Carr.

This was a book of which Benjamin wrote: "I could never read more than two or three pages in bed at night before my heart started to beat so strongly that I had to lay the book aside".

And it's: Today I lay the book on the table.

Don't lay the book in spine up.

Some like to use an ottoman to prop their feet up, some like to sit at a table and lay the book down when they read.

Herein lies the book's beauty.

Herein lies the book's main weakness.

But most of "Something in the Air" isn't concerned with its broad premise, and therein lies the book's value.

Therein lies the book's greatest and most ambitious provocation: its claim that aesthetic works have nothing to hide and that there is no ghost in the machine.

But tucked to one side, within easy reach, lies the book that, for Vieira, trumps all the others: the Bible.