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lie in wait
1. The people of Cheydinhal were ever wary of some unseen terror that continued to lie in wait there
2. ‘The leopard is an agile climber and will often stalk monkeys in the trees, or it will lie in wait on a limb and wait for some terrestrial animal to pass
3. something even more terrible would lie in wait for me
4. and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this
5. sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
6. 40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
7. 3 For, note, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord
8. ” They would not report back, but would lie in wait for and eliminate any of the enemy’s spies
9. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night;
10. lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net
11. 22 Go after her as one who spies, and lie in wait in her ways
12. sore snare: 36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel
13. He shall lie in wait for your head, and you for his heel, until the day of judgment
14. 32 Now therefore up by night, you and the people that is with you, and lie in wait in the field,
15. 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
16. He shall lie in wait for your head and you for his heel until the day of judgment
17. 35 They stored it also with armour and victuals and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem they laid them up there and so they became a sore snare: 36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary and an evil adversary to Israel
18. Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses lie in wait to rush up and torment him if we leave it open
19. Behind the city, lie in wait;
20. And of the Pharisees who heard these words, some became believers in his teaching and entered into the kingdom, but the larger number persisted in the way of darkness, becoming all the more determined to lie in wait for him that they might catch some of his words which could be used to bring him to trial and judgment before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem
21. send your squad to lie in wait to ambush them
22. pyre lie in wait to descend on the children
23. 'Or a still greater point,' I remarked, moved again to cheerful speech by the excellent tea Brosy had made, and his mother, justly suspicious of the tea of Teutons, had smuggled through the customs, as she afterwards told me with pride,--'a still greater point if those are the circumstances that lie in wait for one, would be the never being born
24. Lurk: To lie hid; to lie in wait for blood
25. Asps lie in wait for prey to reach their coiled circular bodies… and strike at anything within reach
26. the evening, when he returns home, lie in wait for him and pretend that you will
27. If I could get into her nest and lie in wait, invisible … wait, I don’t dare stab her
28. If I wished to surprise him, it was evident this was the spot to lie in wait for him
29. They have an encyclopedic understanding of their opponents: how they like to race, when they are likely to start sprinting, when they like to lie in wait
30. After that I determined to lie in wait; so I got out my revolver and I sat up in my study, which overlooks the lawn and garden
31. That a man should lie in wait for and follow a very handsome woman is no unheard-of thing, and if he had so little audacity that he not only dared not address her, but even fled from her approach, he was not a very formidable assailant
32. To lie in wait for me now would mean that the creature had appreciated what had happened to me, and this in turn would argue some power connecting cause and effect
33. The most effective fade traders lie in wait until markets reach ridiculous emotional extremes on the time frame they are trading, and then they pounce
34. Marius related the adventure to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hopital, in house No
35. That a man should lie in wait for and follow a very handsome woman is no unheard-of thing, and if he has so little audacity that he not only dared not address her, but even fled from her approach, he was not a very formidable assailant
36. It was necessary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous
37. What now causes the Armenians and the Turks to suffer and cut each other's throats and act like wild beasts? Why do England and Russia, each of them concerned about her share of the inheritance from Turkey, lie in wait and do not put a stop to the Armenian atrocities? Why do the Abyssinians and Italians fight one another? Why did a terrible war come very near breaking out on account of Venezuela, and now on account of the Transvaal? And the Chino-Japanese War, and the Turkish, and the German, and the French wars? And the rage of the subdued nations, the Armenians, the Poles, the Irish? And the preparation for war by all the nations? All that is the fruits of patriotism