lay back

She still lay back in the chair, possessed by a torpor like the torpor of death--insensible to sound, insensible to touch.

She put her arms under her head and lay back, looking up at the sky.

Then he lay back in his chair and sang a foolish song that did not seem to the General to mean anything, although he listened carefully.

Only, in the midst of his fever, a hand as soft as velvet and as cool as the night sea-wind touched his forehead, and a voice sounded in his ears so sweetly that the blood burned no longer in his veins, so sweetly that he lay back upon his pillow like a man under the influence of a strong narcotic and slept.

Tulliver began to lay back the tablecloths in the chest, folding and stroking them automatically.) "And your uncle Glegg's been too, and he says things must be bought in for us to lie down on, but he must talk to your aunt; and they're all coming to consult.