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lye
1. and for most nowadays, lye relaxers have been
2. A threadbare carpet led them up two flights of stairs permeated with the scent of lye, which did not quite overpower the underlying urine stench
3. My hand will remove with lye your dross
4. The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still,
5. They tried soap and water, earth and a scrubbing brush, and lastly a pumice stone and lye, but they could not remove the crosses
6. It took her time to realize that it was also a form of tenderness and it was then that she lost her calm and lived only for him, upset by the desire to sink into his stupefying odor of grease washed off by lye
7. She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible
8. In the courtyard of Castel Gandolfo he had seen the Pope on a balcony making the same speech in seven languages for a crowd of pilgrims and the only thing, indeed, that had drawn his attention was the whiteness of his hands, which seemed to have been soaked in lye, the dazzling shine of his summer clothing, and the hidden breath of cologne
9. We lye in the bed after a long afternoon of hot passionate sex not either of us saying a word, letting the moon over take the sun
10. I’d never heard of shark lye, but he must’ve
11. “They threw lye in my eyes,” he said
12. The lye was for good measure
13. No one knew why that was but Olin took it at face value and bathed weekly using lye soap
14. He pondered the fact that there is a use for everything as the lye for the soap was obtained by filtering water through the ashes of hard woods
15. "Good," Olin continued, "Now because the burnt ash of hard woods have value in their use to obtain lye for soap the boys are to be cautioned not to mix the soft pine with oak or maple woods in their fires
16. Since they no longer have wood to burn they must mine coal but the ashes of coal are of no use in making lye for soap
17. "It is a lye bed!" he struggled to say through his mirth
18. from very far below came the smell of lye mixed with something he
19. Using Lye to whitewash their homes with: washing their entire past and their entire culture white with lies
20. Lye is an outward projection of inner lies
21. "I was saying, senora," he replied, "that in the courts of other princes, when the cloth is taken away, I have always heard say they give water for the hands, but not lye for the beard; and that shows it is good to live long that you may see much; to be sure, they say too that he who lives a long life must undergo much evil, though to undergo a washing of that sort is pleasure rather than pain
22. "Yes, I will," said Sancho, in a great rage; "but I'd like it to be with cleaner towels, clearer lye, and not such dirty hands; for there's not so much difference between me and my master that he should be washed with angels' water and I with devil's lye
23. She marched them behind a clump of thick bushes, relieved them of their uniforms, gave them a basin of water and strong lye soap to wash with and clothing in her huge wash pot
24. She was violated perhaps ten, perhaps twelve Times; and whereas at first she whimper’d and fought, after a while she seem’d to lye still, her glaz’d Eyes staring Heavenward, her Mouth mutt’ring, “Gracious Goddess, have Mercy
25. Yet soon I am to discover the Method of his Madness, for he leads me out of the Thicket into the Highway again, takes my Cloak away despite my shiv’ring Protestations, directs me to lye in the Ditch by the side of the Road and to wave my Arms in dire Distress, whilst he makes haste to hide in the adjacent Bushes
26. “Ye lye betwixt yer Teeth
27. I cannot lye to ye
28. Once, in the Time o’ Charles II, ’twas the Noble Resort o’ Gentry, but now, ’tis a floatin’ Bawdy House an’ the Lair o’ Ladies o’ the Town who drink Burnt Brandy (they say to defend their Stomachs from the Chill Air upon the Water) an’ lye in wait fer such poor Cunny-haunted Fellows as they can infect with the Pox
29. “Tell her, then, tho’ I swear ’tis a Lye
30. She spirited away the other Girls with the News of a great Auction in the Royal Exchange, which prov’d a Lye
31. My Belly was so large, i’faith, that ’twas almost impossible for me to fulfill my weekly Obligations to Lord Bellars—for I could scarce clasp him ’round the Waist, much less allow him to lye with me in any but the most bestial of Postures, and e’en that one grew unwieldy in Time
32. Then, ’twas all I could do to walk to my Bed, lye upon it in my Smock, breathe as calmly as I could to bear the Pains, and await the Return of Susannah
33. “You lye! And you have swaddl’d her again against my Will
34. Each Lye incises itself upon the Brow as a Line; each Act of Cunning or Deceit twists the Features into the ravaged Contours of villainous Old Age; and oft’ the Body grows so asham’d of its Deceptions that it seeks to cloak itself in Fat and hide away
35. “No Chambermaid was my mother! Ye lye!”
36. The Brokenheart nobles’ arrogance made Rob’s blood burn in his veins like lye
37. What’s in it for you is a chance to avoid lying in it covered with the bag of lye I bought yesterday
38. Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it
