Sentences with phrase «lie on a bed of»

Writes Amos, «Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the stall... Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.»

Last Sunday's reading from the Book of Amos (6:1, 4 - 7)» «Woe to the complacent in Zion, lying on beds of ivory»» would resonate with this Pope in a uniquely vivid way.

On Saturdays cameras are permitted, so visitors can be photographed lying on a bed of nails or standing next to a model of the world's tallest man.

The skeleton is that of a child between 8 and 10 years old, lying on a bed of sand with its head tilted towards the sky.

A robust pork loin dinner with roasted pork loin cooked lying on a bed of rhubarb, strawberries and thyme served with wilted kale with sliced baby new potatoes and shallots with roasted asparagus drizzled with basil flavored olive oil.

His past works give some indication of just how far he is willing to stretch the definition of sculpture in order to reshape the contours of our world: he has grafted human obesity onto everyday objects to create a series of «fat» cars and houses; asked passerby to lift their skirts, take off their trousers, lie on beds of fruit or stick pencils in their noses and ears to make «one - minute sculptures»; carried the curator of a museum around in his arms in a piece entitled «Be Nice to Your Curator»; and created houses that are fat, narrow, upside - down, drunk or inclined to attack other buildings.

Not exact matches

«I was just lying on the bed thinking and came up with all this bizarre imagery... I think also the idea that because I was in a foreign city by myself and I felt very dissociated from humanity in general, it was very easy to project myself into these two characters from the future who were out of sync, out of time, out of place.»

I casually glanced down at his device only to see an entirely unexpected and different kind of device: a picture of a nude man lying on a bed, fully exposed.

«The benefit of lying on the bed versus the floor is that the bed is a squishier surface so it's less stable which means your abdominal muscles are going to work a little harder to keep you balanced during the movement,» says Smith.

After two and a half years of a cramped existence defined largely by the pain in his back and arms — he says he used to lie in bed for hours pressing a spot on his forearm, imagining he had a button there that could shut the pain off — Rahimi is largely pain free.

Lying on a bed in the ER with a nurse trying to find a vein in my arm, all I could think of was that I hadn't had a chance to live.

I have laid hands on people who are lying on their death bed, and placed my hand on the head of the demon possessed and seen them delivered by the power of Jesus Christ.

In the midst of one difficult season, I remember lying in bed less than a foot away from my husband and feeling as if we were on opposite sides of the Continental Divide.

An injured Buddhist man lies on a bed at the hospital in Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine state, on Tuesday.

The luxurious bed on which the lovers lie represents the convents of the Church, said St. Bernard.

All my life I have taken care of myself, and it isn't a bed of roses to have to lie here like a baby and be waited on by people who grumble at you all the time they are doing it.

Funny how «thou shall not lie with another man on a woman's bed» would fit perfectly into a set of rules about not shaving, not wearing cotton blends, not eating pork or shellfish.

My interpretation is that Hitchens does not expect to have any sort of spiritual revelation while on his death bed, and that any later comments made to the contrary would be simply lies created by desperate thumpers.

There will be a day you are lying on your death bed and this kind of joke won't seem real funny when you are scared beyond belief about what will soon happen.

Since «one... other» are both feminine in Luke 17:35 (which he indicates by adding the word «women») and the parallel «one... other» in Luke 17:34 are both masculine, the burden of proof seems to lie on the one who wants to understand the words in Luke 17:34 as generic «people» when the parallel with 17:35 seems to strongly indicate that the two in one bed are «men.»

Redemption lies on the other side of judgment, and there are lost men who make their beds in hell.

Last week, after a hurried, 700 - word article of mine generated exactly 2.5 gazillion responses on the internet, I found myself lying face - down on top of the covers on our bed in the middle of the day.

When I lie on my bed, and the darkness instead of the light fills my head, when the feelings don't come that were promised by some, and my life's come undone, are you there?

if all these bastards say tht they are atleast giving hope to millions who had none.I want to ask them what if the day they will be lying on their death - beds and will realize that nothing good has come out of it.My whole life is duped..

Lying in bed with his neighbor, he shies away from the sight of the crucifix on her neck and ultimately pushes it from sight as they make love.

I sat there on the bed for a while, and then I did seek out my brother and apologize to him, and we all sat down quietly for lunch, and nothing else was ever said about this, until now, in this small essay; but the thought occurs to me that in a lot of ways I have been sitting on that bed ever since, pondering the way lies come so easily to our lips and spin so easily out of our ostensible control, and stab the innocent, and dilute respect, and poison love, and tear at what we so much wish to be, which is honest and gracious and reverent.

I'm wearing tall knit socks, a perfectly paired pajama set or nightgown, my dogs are lying one next to me on the bed and one on the floor at the foot of the bed... My hair is perfectly tousled and Instagram ready...

Chef Dean walked toward us with a platter of marinated grilled shrimp, pink with dark sear marks across their plump bodies lying prostrate on a bed of fresh garden greens.

The boy lies still in the pitch - black room, his long legs hanging off the edge of the undersized bed, his eyes fixed on a small plastic clock resting atop a bedside table.

In Oruro, Bolivia, Cougar safety Scott Peterson was lying diagonally on his undersized bed under flypaper spattered with casualties, listening to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the game and biting back the black wish that his teammates not win it all without him.

Geraldine and Danielle climbed the stairs and looked through the bedroom door, to the smashed bench at the foot of the bed and the stone - cold figure lying with his back up against it, blood caked on the front of his swollen shirt and his head canted to one side.

Purely and simply he loves Atlantic salmon, and this was why, on this hard winter's afternoon, we were reconnoitering the hill streams, looking for the patches of white pebbles where the salmon had used their broad tails to carve out the spawning beds, looking for the vulnerable pools where the fish lie.

Sometimes the things that are hardest are the most intimate — a first - grader's secret fear of going on the sports overnight because he still wets his bed, a freshman just looking at himself in the gym mirror that first day of high school wrestling tryouts, or years later lying awake and breathing in for hours before rolling out of bed to get on a flight to Helmand province.

When lying on my death bed, I won't remember how much money I had, I'd remember the good things in life and I have many fond memories of nursing my children.

Move from lying down with them to sitting on the edge of the bed.

Moreover, you should never leave the baby alone when he is lying on a couch or on the side of a bed even when the baby hasn't learned how to roll, which remains a chance that the baby might fall by sliding down the couch or bed.

Invariably birth is portrayed as something traumatic to be feared: a serious dramatic emergency room caesarean, a home birth ending in the death of the mother or the screen filled with a screaming woman lying down on a bed struggling, fighting to give birth.

To transition him out of our bed we put a little mattress down on the floor next to our bed and when he woke up he would lie down next to us on his own mattress.

A variety of positions, from all - fours, to side - lying, to sitting on a birthing ball while leaning on the bed (my favorite), and more.

Lying sleep deprived in my hospital bed, I called the company on the other side of the country to be sure that my pump would be on my front porch when I went home.

Here's one of my favorite breastfeeding tips: when you get home from work, grab your baby, lie down on your bed and nurse.

Spend sometime lying on your back outside under the stars one night — on a week - end if your child usually goes to bed early — and marvel at the countless number of them, made by our Creator.

«There is a picture of me lying in the hospital bed, all smiles, huge belly... with my cell phone in hand and Facebook clearly visible on the screen.»

I make her help me unload the dishwasher and fold laundry, and put away her own clean clothes, and of course she's always welcome to help in the kitchen or with whatever I'm doing; we read together often, and we play card games and board games; but if she wants to hang out in her room playing wedding with her stuffed animals, or lie around reading Teen Titans comics, or do somersaults on our bed — great.

I have just used the «door as a consequence» and it worked like a charm after 2 hours of my girl not even lying on the bed for more than 5 seconds and many repetitions of the «silent return to bed» (she couldn't care less about it).

At 2 - 3 months, the Mongolian baby lies for hours swaddled on a bed while the mom is out working in the fields (talk about not being the center of attention!).

Lying on top of the beds in the bedrooms are clothes actually worn by the members of the family and toys they played with.

Since I've started sleeping on a new mattress, my quality of sleep has improved by leaps and bounds and some mornings it's quite tempting to continue lying in bed.

If one of the dogs jumps on the bed and a baby is lying there he could crush and possibly kill her.

The incidents of infants dying while «co-sleeping» with adults, as documented by the CPSC, include the following: children getting trapped between the bed and the wall, or the bed and another object; entrapment that involves footboards or bed frames; soft bedding - related hazards, such as suffocation on a pillow; falls, sometimes into a pile of clothing or plastic, resulting in suffocation; a child or adult accidentally lying on top of the baby.