A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: lying

Number of occurrences in corpus: 19

A.3.4 547 that I am compiling a poem in lying words, / writing poetry. Liste
A.4.2 278 compelled him. / Then he found lying on the bed / his ashen patron,
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 17 ire to give these things as a lying to rest to your labour, / so
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 294 eat crowd of beggars was then lying throughout the streets, / pest
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 324 s heading. Behold, a girl was lying there, / languishing in a chill
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 451 in his lap without noticing. / Lying awake and ailing in the middl
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1140 had been ill for many days, / lying afflicted with pain for forty
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1646 his arms the limbs of the one lying there; / returning to free the
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 8 bore away by night / an infant lying in its parents’ arms, / and t
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 2 ture events in her mind / while lying on her bed, seeing true dream
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 661 to fill the mouth of the one lying there; / and were eager to retu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 936 d unwisely tried to bind with lying words / the links of his oath w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 948 s / who devised falsehoods with lying oaths / and were keen to defile
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1913 g in song. / For the tongue was lying with cunning words, / striving
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2687 / Oh, what false trifles the lying thief pledged / in order to dar
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2779 , / while the plump poker rests lying down / on the strewn rushes, re
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 448 ly did the barbarian workmen, lying on the ground, work on the mo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1052 ieved the invented stories of lying men. / Unless I am mistaken, h
N.MiraculaNyniae 214 heaven; / while everything was lying idle in the sleep-filled nigh