How To Use laid up In A Sentence
- Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
- Two Chinese coworkers who came unasked to my filthy apartment when I was laid up with a miserable viral scunge and brought me soup, medicine and tidied the place up. Imagethief
- The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
- The Caliph wondered at her words and bade the tale be recorded and chronicled and laid up in his muniment-chambers. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The word magazine derives from an Arabic word meaning a storehouse, a place where goods are laid up.
- She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks
- With their mother laid up with a broken ankle, Jane Tomlinson's daughters have decided to fund-raise on her behalf.
- The old man was laid up with a severe stroke.
- Much stress is laid upon this and other seeming discrepancies to conclude that the description of the tabernacle found in Ex., xxv-xxxi, xxxix-xl, is the work of post-exilian authors of the Priestly Code. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- The rough hand of the New World had been laid upon the Scotsman from his boyhood; but sterling honesty was written in every line of his bitter-seamed face, while a prognathous jaw proclaimed to the onlooker that honesty was the best policy, -- for the onlooker at any rate, should he wish to do business with the owner of the jaw. CHAPTER 6