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in wait
Idioms and Phrases
see lie in wait .Example Sentences
Like two figures carved in stone sat the two liers-in-wait, their well-trained horses as motionless as themselves.
Next day, after a long lying-in-wait, I intercepted Adam Waggett and beckoned him into the shrubbery.
They despise men who "suspect" for a living; they hate legal lyers-in-wait and the highwaymen of the law.
Every few yards of the bad lands offered perfect lurking places for liers-in-wait along the trail.
His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking, lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable.
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