Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“When snow like sheep lay in the fold”
—Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

“The almost unexplored Everglades lay close by and with a half- hour’s start a man who knew the country was safe from pursuit. As one man cheerfully confided ..., ‘A boat don’t leave no trail, stranger.’”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“He said, I’m just out of hospital,
but I’m still flying.
I answered, of course,
angry, prescient, knowing.
what fire lay behind his wide stare,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)