Laid

Famous quotes containing the word laid:

“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 4)

“I’d rather I were dead and gone,
And my body laid in grave,
Ere a rusty stock o coal-black smith
My maidenhead should have.”
—Unknown. The Twa Magicians (l. 17–20)