"Lie with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... modes of crude voluptuousness, taxed each in turn at arbitrary values, and provided plausible excuses for indulgence. Instead of laying it down as a broad principle that men must keep their word, they taught them how to lie with spiritual impunity and with credit to their reputation as sons of the Church. Thus the inventive genius of the casuist, bent on dissecting immorality and reducing it to classes; the interrogative ingenuity of the confessor, pruriently inquisitive ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... any one within, whose name is Thecla? She answered, What would you have with her? They said, We have a mind to lie with her. ...
— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake
... of my eventful career had occasion to mark the varying degrees of plausibility with which men speak untruths, but never, I confidently aver, have I beheld one lie with so piteous a futility. The art—and I dare say with diplomat chaps and that sort it may properly be called an art—demands as its very essence that the speaker seem to be himself convinced of the truth of that which he utters. And the Honourable ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... lie with them," said Mr. Prendergast. "We take possession of that which is our own till it is ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... laughed. "Well," quoth he, "let not that trouble lie with you, for it was we who gave you challenge without inquiry who you were, and you did but defend yourself. We were upon our way to Camelot yonder, when we fell into this mishap, for King Arthur is at this time ...
— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle
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