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• If a group of French boys or even grown men were out for a walk and one of them spied a silver coin lying on the ground, he would pounce on it and pick it up exclaiming —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
• I hitchhiked some more, saw a hell of a lot of donkeys, found a Donald Duck comic in Greek lying in someone's backyard. —  The Rules of Attraction
• "Peter," Adrian continued, "or the program that calls itself 'Peter,' may be lying, although it gains nothing from lying --" —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• And even as one baseball all star finally comes clean about performance enhancing drugs, another is charged with lying -- lying to Congress about steroids. —  CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2009
• Parents often fail to address early childhood lying, since the lying is almost innocent - their child's too young to know what lies are, or that lying's wrong. —  NPR Topics: News

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