lay forward

He lay forward peering into the gloom.

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.

And, indeed, it was an inspiriting business this flight of ours across the Channel, or at all events this part of it I lay forward in the bows with a great coat atop of me, and my face upturned to the spacious skies, which were strewn with a gold-dust of stars and jewelled with the planets.

Bill, the fireman, was crouched, half asleep, beside the clanking engine, and two very sick men lay forward beneath a ragged tarpaulin.

Her red 254 hair lay forward in two long glittering braids.