How To Use Lying in wait In A Sentence
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For any man to profess to be governed by the fixed principles of justice, of honor, of truth, or of generosity, is sufficient to stamp him a hypocrite and a designing knave, that is lying in wait under these characters for the happiness of others.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
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Thinking quickly, he flattened himself up against the wall next to the door, lying in wait.
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A man was ambushed and mugged by three men lying in wait as he walked home from a football match.
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These trading boats were three-masted, oceangoing junks, known as “big-eyed chickens” for their red sails and the huge pairs of eyes painted on their bows, put there by the sailors who believed that these magic oculi could spot pirates lying in wait up ahead.
The Last Empress
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Lions, tigers and birds of prey were lying in wait.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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Then we ran down the Illyrian coast and, with oars at full speed, sail bellying with a powerful southwester, rounded the Italian peninsula with a strong wind for Sicilia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where we ran into a small flotilla of black-sailed ships expectantly lying in wait for us.
The Skrayling Tree
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As his fame grows and his popularity spreads, there are many traps lying in wait for him.
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She was loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite at Superior, WI, on Nov.9, 1975 and left the port of Duluth-Superior, at the western end of Lake Superior shortly after 2: 00 p.m. in fair weather but with a foul forecast lying in wait.
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Now there were men lying in wait , abiding with her in the chamber.
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I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong, and she denounced me for a clumsy, stupid, labouring boy.
Ten Boys from Dickens
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But the oyster seemed to have clammed up since, and such pearls as may have been lying in wait remained ungarnered.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Aquitania" would make the most desirable capture, and our most dangerous spot is the Aegean, from behind any of whose numerous islands a submarine lying in wait may dart out.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
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Lions, tigers and birds of prey were lying in wait.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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This tripartition is a trap lying in wait for unsuspecting garden designers who, like God, intervene in the world of natural laws and unfolding evolution trying to make nature or the world into a better place.
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I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.
Great Expectations
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With a number of top-notch sides potentially lying in wait for Scotland in next month's play-offs, yesterday's success may yet prove a minuscule mercy.
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Our valiant forces were lying in wait for them, inflicting heavy losses on the covetous invaders.
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I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong.
Ten of the best card games in literature
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He was lying in wait in the hallway, where he was impossible to overlook, forking salad into his well-shaped mouth.
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Police believe he could have been lying in wait for his victim for some considerable time.
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The robbers were lying in wait for the rich traveler.
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As his fame grows and his popularity spreads, there are many traps lying in wait for him.
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Armed officers, who were lying in wait for the would-be raiders, disabled their van using Hatton rounds - bullets designed to deflate tyres with minimum damage.
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Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus.
Isabelle
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Finding little to eat in the bleak, snow-drifted woods, it soon began to depredate on the moose, and killed two or three, generally by lying in wait and dashing out on them as they passed near its lurking-place.
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
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A mother who claims she was forced to pay £155 after her car was clamped on a petrol station forecourt has accused the clampers of lying in wait.
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Like tangling with an alligator, or lifting the toilet seat lid and finding a funnel-web spider lying in wait.
I know i am, but what are you?
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Bright-eyed, Johannes quickly gathered a sackful of colours and brushes, and a large rolled drawing which had been lying in wait.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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What if he was lying in wait for her, his blood-lust unappeased by his first victim?
Red dust
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I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring – boy.
Great Expectations
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He was lying in wait in the hallway, where he was impossible to overlook, forking salad into his well-shaped mouth.
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A mangled cane is a great place for fungal disease spores to hide out, lying in wait to cause problems later or causing cane dieback now.
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I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for
Great Expectations
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He was surrounded by reporters who had been lying in wait for him.
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Lions, tigers and birds of prey were lying in wait.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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They were lured to a suburban house - where teams of detectives were lying in wait.
The Sun