Meanings of lay horizontally in English

His arms lay horizontally across his knees, and upon these his head rested.

They lay horizontally on the floor of the hangar, all pointed toward the airlock.

The farther one lay horizontally, on its upright "through stanes," some distance above the earth.

Wherever a flag lay horizontally from one stack to another was the bed of an eagle which had led men into the mystic smoke.

The third doughnut was fixed vertically, sitting inside the top and bottom ones and enclosing the smallest, which lay horizontally in the centre, not touching.

We saw columnar forms supporting others that lay horizontally: vast boulders of trap-rock, suggesting the idea of some antediluvian ruin, some temple of gigantic Druids!

This is laid horizontally about two feet from the ground, resting on guides.

Five of these rails were laid horizontally from post to post.

It was constructed of logs laid horizontally, with a thick abattis of twelve trees.

The whole apparatus is laid horizontally about 1 foot above the ground, and is carefully concealed.

Some of the tombstones are flat on the ground, some erect, or laid horizontally on low pillars or masonry.

Back at Dweekat's, I stood peeing into a Middle Eastern toilet, essentially a urinal laid horizontally into the floor.

The skeletons are laid horizontally, with their heads generally towards the center and the feet towards the outside of the tumulus.

An immense hall, light and airy, occupied the ground floor of the house, which was built of strong planks laid horizontally.

The dam was composed of innumerable small branches and trunks of trees, laid horizontally across the stream, mixed with mud and stones.

It was composed of short bars of gold laid horizontally three and three together, and bound together with short chains of gold.