a-lying

There it was, broke as ye see and a-lying in the way, underfoot, ready to trip up poor old Ben Fadger, and his legs already as rheumatical stiff as two dry toasts….

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

They'd had the car windows open and Noddy and Cissy had been singing, very loudly, the calypso carol the lower school choir would perform at the Christmas concert: "See him a-lying on a bed of straw, drafty stable with an open door ..."

Land Divers Messud, Claire 2009

There it was, broke as ye see and a-lying in the way, underfoot, ready to trip up poor old Ben Fadger, and his legs already as rheumatical stiff as two dry toasts….

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

I saw him in a dream four years last Whitsuntide, as plain as I see you now, gentles, a-lying upon

Westward Ho! 2007

Well, sir, when I came into this room yesterday, when the alarm was given, the very first thing I saw was Mr. Gilchrist's tan gloves a-lying in that chair.

The Adventure of the Three Students. 2004

So far from entering into any conversation with me, or hitting at me, like a man — which would have done good to think of — he send out one hand to the bottom of my vest — as they call it now in all the best livery tailors — and afore I could reason on it, there I was a-lying on a star in six colors of marble.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Why, Sir, it wore only like yesterday that this here tall, elegant, royal young lady was a-lying on my breast, and what a hand she was to kick!

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

"Excuse me for not knowing a bit about this," said Po, "but if you leave those clothes a-lying there, them Finders'll know he come this way, and that points north to them sure as if we painted a big white arrow on the ground."

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

And there she saw big Fatty Groves a-lying on the ground

Fatty Groves 1987

And as she slept she dreamt that she saw him a-lying in the countryside all covered with gore and blood

Bruton Town 1968