Sentence examples for lay upon a from inspiring English sources

She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings.

It lay upon a road which may have been (see H. Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, II.361) the Via Annia, a by‑road of the Via Cassia; this road approached it from the south passing through Nepet, while its prolongation to the north certainly bore the name Via Amerina.

Observe the airstrip hustle and bustle of Africa's busiest airport through floor-to-ceiling glass windows while you either sweat off calories at the hotel's state-of-the-art gym or lay upon a daybed by the indoor pool.

Now seemingly solid, and yet somehow insubstantial, but having the general lineaments of a man, it stood suddenly with a convulsion of its spine, and flung its arms into the air, and waved them wildly, and then collapsed like an empty garment, and lay upon an engine similar to a bellows at its feet.

The clay-rich aeolian dust deposit in turn lies upon a buried silcrete and quartz stone layer.

We have designed a scaled experimental single-layer lithosphere model having elasto-plastic rheology and lying upon a liquid substratum to study its behaviour under axial horizontal tension.

When a Jain monk volunteers to lie upon a bed infested with vermin that suck his blood, he may do so to diminish a client's or patron's burden of bad karma (the notion that every deed, good or bad, receives due reward or retribution), but at the same time he practices the monastic virtues prescribed for him as a monk.

The interpretation of (4) is that on statistically homogeneous pixels the theoretical non-stationary ensemble statistics (mean and variance) of the observed noisy image g(m,n) lie upon a straight line.

Sunscreen is usually associated with summer, pool parties, and blissful days lying upon a tranquil beach.

She was lying upon a layer of cinnabar mixed with blue and green pigments and was accompanied by a rich funerary offering.

American scholar Edward Robinson visited the city in 1838, describing it as a "thickly populated" town larger than Jerusalem, with its Old City lying upon a hilltop, while its suburbs laid on the nearby plain.