Things that she had not thought of before were laid bare before her eyes.The inevitable ending of life bestowed on all flesh an infinite pathos which she had never before remarked.…Cited from Sparrows, by Horace W.C. Newte
A cold chill crept down the boy's backbone.Was the heart of that secret to be laid bare at last?…Cited from The Boy Land Boomer, by Ralph Bonehill
Here again the heart of the race problem is laid bare.Cited from Martin Luther King Jr. Day Anthology #1
If only it could all be laid bare to her, the secret of his position would be revealed.Buckland's violence altogether missed its mark; the dishonour of such a man as Godwin Peak was due to no gross incentive.…Cited from Born In Exile, By George Gissing
My own soul was laid bare to me by the flash of hope.Cited from What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 9
He had been stirred but for a moment when the project was laid bare.Cited from The Wheel O' Fortune, by Louis Tracy
Yesterday I rode out to watch the evening bombardment which we make on their entrenchments with the naval 4.7-inch guns.From the low hill on which the battery is established the whole scene is laid bare.The Boer lines run in a great crescent along the hills.…Cited from London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, by Winston Spencer Churchill
If you can with such submission face the revelation of things hid, then you are of the truth, and need not be afraid; for, whatever comes, it will and can only make you more true and humble and pure.Does the Lord mean that everything a man has ever done or thought must be laid bare to the universe?So far, I think, as is necessary to the understanding of the man by those who have known, or are concerned to know him.…Cited from Unspoken Sermons, by George MacDonald
He cut it with little tentative strokes, for in the intense cold the steel was almost as brittle as glass.Now a square of ground flanked by high snow walls was laid bare.The two then stripped boughs of balsam with which to carpet all one end of it.…Cited from The Silent Places, by Steward Edward White
After climbing to the tenth stair, and satisfying myself that the light was there, I would creep back noiselessly to bed, and fall at once into a deep dreamless sleep that was often prolonged till late in the forenoon.At length there came a night when the secret was laid bare, and the spell broken for ever.I had been in bed for two hours and a half, lying in that half-dreamy state in which facts and fancies are so inextricably jumbled together that it is too much labour to disintegrate the two, when the clock struck one.…Cited from The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891, ed. by Charles W. Woods
He would bring bitter charges of conspiracy, of unbelievable compact to secure his ruin.All this must recoil on his own head when the facts were laid bare.Not even the hero of the island could prevail against the terrible indictment of the court-martial.…Cited from The Wings of the Morning, by Louis Tracy
Now, after all these years, it was laid bare before him, and he saw it bleeding still.And how easy it would be to heal it now at last!…Cited from The Gadfly, by E. L. Voynich
True, everything is obvious around me, but as it were laid bare.I have lost the secret which complicated life.…Cited from Light, by Henri Barbusse [Tr.: Fitzwater Wray]
The street by which we entered had a small-pox of shrapnel and bullet-marks.The post office had particularly suffered: its bones were laid bare.It had not been restored, but it was ready to do any business that fell to be done, though closed on that afternoon.…Cited from Over There, by Arnold Bennett
There is no dependence on aught extraneous for the achievement of the effect sought.Yet here, if ever, a human soul is laid bare in all its naked tragedy.…Cited from Frank Reynolds, R.I., by A.E. Johnson
Sir Marmaduke sat by the while, still gloomy and out of humour.Why was their family sorrow to be laid bare to this stranger?…Cited from He Knew He Was Right, by Anthony Trollope
It is an error to suppose that the voice must be increased as the heart is laid bare.Cited from Delsarte System of Oratory, by Francois Delsarte et al.
I would gin a cent freely and willin'ly if I could a seen Robert stand there side by side with that old locomotive and the fastest lightin' express of to-day -- like seed and harvest -- with Josiah and me for a verdant and sympathizin' background.Oh, what a sight it would a been, if his emotions could a been laid bare, and mine, too!It would a been a sight long to remember.…Cited from Samantha at the World's Fair, by Marietta Holley
He was a man of great gifts, with much that was most attractive and noble; but joined with this them was originally in his character a vein of perversity and mischief, always in danger of breaking out, and with which he kept up a long and painful struggle.His inmost thought and knowledge of himself have been laid bare in the papers which his friends published after his death.He was in the habit of probing his motives to the bottom, and of recording without mercy what he thought his self-deceits and affectations.…Cited from The Oxford Movement, by R.W. Church
This was a work of Roman construction, as its form indicates.Three or four ranges of seats alone, are laid bare, and these have only been discovered within a few years.A few steps further we came to a sort of cavern, overhung with wild fig-trees.…Cited from Views a-foot, by J. Bayard Taylor
