Those have done you all the damage that lay in their power, and it was long ago.

I have done all that lay in my power.

So I decided at last that the best way was to give every private help that lay in my power.

Without thinking, she had promised to give any help that lay in her power.

Whether or no she returned his love her place was beside him now, to give what encouragement and physical aid lay in her power.

At that moment it lay in his power to destroy them all, and they knew it.

Of this defect I did not fall to take what poor advantage lay in my power.

He would do me all the harm that lay in his power!

Obviously the captain didn't believe it lay in Caesar's power to do this.

He was a colleague, and I owed him what absolution lay in my power to give.