Life and death lay right there in that one point of the issue.

Here lay like pen strokes the growth and death of moss.

He could not know what lay ahead, but death lay behind.

The games were over, and death lay in ambush on a distant sea.

He saw clearly that the death of eight or ten more key warriors would lay the island open to assault.

He was falling into nothingness, not even knowing how far his death lay below.

Beyond that hole lay death for all who might enter.

There was no escaping the fact that my death lay at her door.

The old man's death had laid a heavy hand upon them.

He had no friends here, and death lay all about him.