The caravan was resting, the camels were peacefully lying down; the palms stood all around in a complete circle; all the party were at dinner.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For there is only one limiting condition; the knowledge must be founded on an inner change in the patient which can be attained only through psychic labors directed toward a definite end.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

With visible reluctance Pollyanna laid down the pamphlet and turned toward the closet.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Many people lie down to sleep as the camels lie down in the desert, with their packs still on their backs.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Adurnung patikan nga nagyasyas, Palm leaf decorations that were hanging down.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"He mixed colloquial and classical expressions, ignoring all the prescribed limitations dear to the pundits' hearts.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Plato lays down two primary causes or principles of all things, God and matter, which he also calls mind, [138] and the cause.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Only one hour in the twenty-four did she pass with her fellow-servants below; all the rest of her time was spent in some low-ceiled, oaken chamber of the second storey: there she sat and sewed—and probably laughed drearily to herself,—as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The path led diagonally to the left, and that was what he wanted—a way to a flank.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

The poor old man had a son come to see him, but what of that, be ye clothed and be ye fed does no more good than the priest's passing look did the man who went from Jerusalem down to Jericho and fell among thieves.
— from Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States by Moses Swan

Here, too, is a picture of "Slug" shirking his religious duties: "In his devotions he is known To be the same poor lazy drone: The sweetest songs Believers find Make no impression on his mind; And round the fire he'd rather nod Than labor in the works of God.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Of course personal pronouns could not arise without or before the sense of self, but the problem is whether the sense of self could arise without or exist before that particular linguistic device, the personal pronoun?
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

If we know little of his teaching in art, we know still less of his personal life during the time when he was laying the foundations of his success by study and self-discipline.
— from Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore

But seeing no alternative, he at last consented; on which the whole party laid down their spears and faithfully escorted him to the nearest part of the settlement, where the gun was given up, and they took their leave without asking for any remuneration, or even seeming to expect it.
— from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

Lord Dunmore issues a proclamation to free the slaves; on the night of the 20th of April sends a body of marines to seize and carry off a quantity of gunpowder, belonging to the Colony, stored in a magazine at Williamsburg; excitement of the inhabitants, and their demand for the restoration of the powder; Lord Dunmore threatens, but is at length compelled to return the value of the powder 465 Lord Dunmore's threat to free the slaves, and letter to the Secretary of State, as to how, with aid "of a small body of troops and arms," he could raise an ample force "among the Indians and negroes and other persons" 466 Horror and alarm in the South at Lord Dunmore's threat to free the slaves, and preparation for resistance (in a note) 466 Lord Dunmore (moved by his fears) leaves the Government House, and goes on board of a ship of war at Norfolk, almost twelve miles from Williamsburg, the seat of government 466
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson