lays

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Yet in him also are Nibelungen-lays, and Iliads, and Ulysses-wanderings, and Divine Comedies,--if only once he could come at them!

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  1. transitive verb To cause to lie down: lay a child in its crib.
  2. transitive verb To place in or bring to a particular position: lay the cloth over the painting.
  3. transitive verb To bury.

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  • “Would Congressmen know that lays are a form of poetry?” He laughed. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • Southey wrote to Scott:—'Give me more lays, and correct them at leisure for after editions—not laboriously, but when the amendment comes naturally and unsought for. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
  • John's word lays stress on the children's kindred nature with their father and on their immature condition But without dwelling on that, let us consider this great gift and dignity of being children of God, which is the object that God has in view in all the lavish bestowment of His goodness upon us That end is not reached by God's making us men. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • Yet in him also are Nibelungen-lays, and Iliads, and Ulysses-wanderings, and Divine Comedies,--if only once he could come at them! —  The Biglow Papers
  • 6:14. God's word lays down a principle recognized and endorsed by all enlightened nations,--"Sin is not reckoned [imputed] when there is no law."--Rom. —  God's Plan with Men
 

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