With lay-flat seats this is much bigger issue, since you have to step over (or wake) your sleeping neighbor.

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He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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