“You may lay to that.”

“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.”

“the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.”

“One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,’ agreed Charlotte.‘But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,’ I agreed quickly.”

“And there on the piss-soaked cobbles, his back to the alley and his face to the wall, lay the object of their diplomatic mission: A sleeping drunk. Colt lay out his hand in a flourish. “Mr. Billings, may I introduce to you His Imperial Majesty Joshua Norton the First, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico.”

“Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.”