Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have always been very eager to know what was the first dream of man. But there is, certainly, no good reason for doubting that to Adam in his lonely bliss in the garden, there came his first sad experience of life, as he lay asleep under the trees on a moonlight night before the creation of Eve, and that as the rib was taken from his side he groaned heavily and dreamed that the pleurisy was tormenting him. I must believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam...
...very evening of the day on which this dream was told to me, I slept, and could conjure up no more stirring puppets with which to amuse myself, than two or three Quakers with their broad-brimmed hats, and not even one that wore a bonnet; and there I lay, while they thou'd and thee'd, until I was so tired of their chatter that I turned over and woke...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise...
...haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully in the corners. Marbles and vases, gems and intaglios, represented the civilization of Greece and Rome. Knickknacks and curiosities from foreign lands lay scattered with studied carelessness among the books. The library was all that a man of letters could desire. I rubbed my eyes that I might be sure that I was not asleep. "O, that this were mine!" I whispered to myself. My companion heard. "And so are these your highest...
...during the spring, and the general satisfaction, will determine which of the five courts is to be chosen as a model. These five clay courts will be ready for play by the middle of April, and the turf courts will be ready early in May. The association will temporarily lay out and mark the present courts to the best of its ability, probably 15 in number. This will afford 30 courts for play during the present spring. The 30 new clay courts will be ready for play during this autumn...