The domestic surfaces lie, until you start listening to your memory of them, until you look at their commonplaces as clues.

No matter how pure the surface, beneath it lies insanity and dread.

I think the outer surface of this grand hotel lies in this direction.

The surface of the crater lake lies about 550 m below the rim of the caldera.

Its surface lies about 50 m below the level of the main crater floor and covers about 12 km2.

As a result, the breast's lower (inferior) surface lies against the chest wall.

Today the surface of the peat fens lies only a few feet above or below sea-level.

Therefore if Venus has the same mean density as the Earth then its surface would lie about 400 km below the cloud tops.

Beneath the earnest, look-at-me surface lies a first-rate musical talent with a sense of how phrases move.

The two together can be described by a potential, so that, for example, the stellar surfaces lie along equipotential surfaces.