"Lie about" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... females to each of his great elephants, which are called their wives. The testes of the males are said to lie about his forehead, and the teats of the female are between her fore-legs. She goes twelve months with young. The elephant is thirty years old before he attains his full growth, and they live to seventy ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... a damn lie about you killin' Link an' Givens the way that Wharton woman says you did—in that damned paper—just malicious, without them ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... for, he had led a wandering life, and settled people had lost sight of him, and people who plumed themselves on being respectable were shy of admitting that they had ever known anything of him. At last, among the marsh lands near the river's level, that lie about Deptford and the neighbouring market-gardens, a Grizzled Personage in velveteen, with a face so cut up by varieties of weather that he looked as if he had been tattooed, was found smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house ...
— A House to Let • Charles Dickens
... beggars who lie about among the stones. We have to make sallies in force when we go from behind these walls. But, I say, you two haven't ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... but we hope to make a great advance before night towards the capture of the forts at the Narrows. All round where I sit the ground is ploughed up with great holes, some beside this battery the largest of any, big enough to completely hide a horse and cart. Pieces of shell of several hundredweight lie about. The precision of our gunfire has to be seen otherwise one could not believe how accurately they can hit a small object miles off. The very birds have got accustomed to the din, and on the face of the rocks where I sit is a pair of exquisite birds—probably jays—flitting about as though ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson
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