Meanings of lay recumbent in English

She lay recumbent upon pillows, with her father at her side.

Some post-operational patients even lay recumbent on the kitchen tables whilst around them the cooks were preparing the evening meal.

From time to time he glanced uneasily at his somewhat elderly papa, who lay recumbent upon a sofa, dreaming the happy hours away.

Here, upon two beds of incorruptible cedar, lay recumbent the fleshless forms of the pre-Adamite kings, who had been monarchs of the whole earth.