lying

See Also: BEARING, BENDING/BENT, IMMOBILITY, POSTURE, SITTING, SLEEP, STANDING

1. Lay … as if chloroformed —Wallace Stegner
2. Lay as still as a fallen doll —George Garrett
3. Lay in bed like a tree stump —Charles Johnson
4. Lay lifeless as if spellbound —Herman Melville
5. Lay like an aimlessly flung sack of bones —Harvey Swados
6. Lay on his back … rigid and ruined, like some stained window mannequin —Davis Grubb
7. Lay on the sofa like cast-off silk stockings —Delmore Schwartz

   In his journal entry Schwartz followed this with two additional comparisons: “Like fallen buildings … like a car over turned.” Had he been writing forty years later, he would have been apt to refer to pantyhose instead of silk stockings.

   See Also: ABANDONMENT

8. Lay perfectly still, as if dead with fear —D. H. Lawrence
9. Lay … rigid, as if she were dead —Elizabeth Taylor
10. Lay rigidly still, as still as if he were in his coffin —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
11. Lay side by side like fish —Lawrence Durrell
12. (Fallen and helpless, he) lay there like a pine tree that has been torn up by the roots —Ellen Glasgow
13. Lay there..stretched like a corpse —Hugh Walpole
14. Lay where she was for a few minutes like a flake of foam —Vicki Baum
15. (We’d) lie … like two sticks in bed —Elizabeth Spencer
16. The lovers like great scissors lay —Delmore Schwartz

    See Also: MEN AND WOMEN

17. Sprawled around … like shepherds in a frieze —Julia O’Faolain
18. Sprawled like a man who had been threshed —Stephen Crane
19. Sprawling like an exhausted dog —Mary Hedin