lay forward

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He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Of her passengers, one lay forward, prone and quiet.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

Every horseman lay forward on the neck of his horse, caps fell, capes flew, and in mid-course every one fancied he was going to win.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

He lay forward upon his hands, crouching almost, but with his face, his dreadful, featureless face, twisted up at me from under his left shoulder.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax

Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it if it blows very fresh.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry