"Lay down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was the hermitage. The Abbot hung his bell on a thick ivy-bough in the mouth of the cave; and they knelt and recited vespers and compline; and thrice the Abbot struck the bell to scare away the evil spirits of the night; and they entered and lay down to rest. ...
— A Child's Book of Saints • William Canton
... excitement. A public meeting was called in the court-house at twilight, and among the speakers who exhorted the people to take up arms at once, was one, a youth not yet twenty years of age, who said, "Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we have obtained our independence,"—one of the first, perhaps the first, of the public declarations of the purpose of independence. It was Nathan Hale, already a person of some note in the colony, of a family then not unknown and destined in various ways to ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... ready to lay down my pen, I draw a long breath—"The Land of the Long Night" is ready for the printer. I am just thinking: all my books have been published in New York, and all but two have been written, ...
— The Land of the Long Night • Paul du Chaillu
... responded the former. "Lay down your arms, then, here in the road, advance twenty paces, ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... of delicate attention which the most ingenious assiduity could devise was omitted from the course of treatment. And if the chamber had been at the front instead of at the back, the Fulham Vestry would certainly have received an application for permission to lay down straw in ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
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