Re Lay

And yet, this observation is not intended to burden you, for you are of a different time, and, indeed, because of all the re-lay runners before you, North America is a different place. ❋ Alice Walker Blog Administrator (2008)

We just opened a new room at the cafe, and it's carpeted it came that way, and we didn't want to spend the money to re-lay a floor. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)

The crews were meanwhile clearing the snow near the summit so that the track layers could re-lay the track between Cisco and Tunnel No. 12 and complete the last seven-mile gap to open the line to Nevada. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

After he had gone I sat for a while, thinking, before getting up to re-lay the fire and put a match to it. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1997)

Mr. Sulu, re-lay course for Organia at Warp Three, to a position in opposition to the present calculated position of the planet. ❋ Blish, James (1970)

We must go back to the beginning and re-lay the foundations of our culture. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1953)

It had taken the people of Chaldis the whole of three months to build new homes, remove a square mile of forest, plant some unnecessary crops of exotic and luxurious fruits, re-lay a river, and demolish a hill which offended their aesthetic sensibilities. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1950)

It was unavoidably necessary to re-lay the entire slate covering and to replace with new material the rotten spots in the lathing and planking. ❋ Various (N/A)

His was the harder, the more hopeless task, to re-lay foundations which had been torn up and scattered, and then begin to build upon them. ❋ Diocese Of Connecticut (N/A)

"One doesn't re-lay a road by making a deep hole in it." ❋ Ian Hay (1914)

Their business was to go over the entire line twice a day, drive tight the wooden "keys" which held the rails in their chairs, lift and re-lay broken or worn-out rails and chairs, raise or depress sleepers wherever these required alteration, so as to make the line level, and, generally, to keep in thorough repair the "permanent way." ❋ Unknown (1859)

But as the power and the weight of the locomotives were increased, it was found that such rails were quite insufficient for the safe conduct of the traffic, and it therefore became necessary to re-lay the road with heavier and stronger rails at considerably increased expense. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Multiple award-winning groundsman Alan Ferguson, of Ipswich Town, had been expecting to examine the turf but the decision to re-lay it ata cost of £90,000 means that, according to Webb, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Especially when you've got long runs of cable with few connecting houses (i.e. country areas) it can be * very expensive* to pinpoint a break in the line and fix it: you basically have to pull up loooong stretches of cable and re-lay the whole thing. ❋ Darren Greenwood (2010)