Lines

Examples

• I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By the aid of these lines the barometric conditions over a large area can be studied. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There were lines upon his forehead, but Time seemed to have touched him gently, remembering how kind he was to others. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Sherman responded to this attack on his lines of communication by directing one upon theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lines never change, replied the official. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Early says in his Memoirs that if we had discovered the confusion in his lines we might have brought fresh troops to his great discomfort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I opened it at once and read these lines. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All the lines roared and some one shouted in a high voice, 'Where do you go, Don Faustino? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Phelps, another investigator, who had been experimenting along the same lines and had taken out several patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The lines, she said, were waterways; the circles, cities; and one far to the northwest of us she pointed out as Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• So that, from the doorway of the _Ayuntamiento_, looking across the plaza, one coming out would see two solid lines of people waiting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I can make nothing of such a hand as that; almost without lines: besides, what is in a palm? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from going north. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If extended in straight lines, it would build a track of two rails to the moon, and more than a hundred thousand miles beyond it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Iron filings scattered over a magnet arrange themselves in definite lines. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I had a few lines on parish business from Mr. Weston this morning, and at the end of them he gave me a brief account of what had happened. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The lines are much clearer, and the color brighter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You must remember that we are dealing with a burglar who is a very peculiar fellow, and who appears to work on lines of his own. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There was a slight attack on Burnside's and Wright's corps as they moved out of their lines; but it was easily repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I address these lines--written in India--to my relatives in England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I write the lines down here exactly as she repeated them to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This process is repeated several times, the object of it being not so much to give relief to the lines, as to roughen the surface of the stone, and thus facilitate its absorption of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• At times his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the pitiful hopelessness that spoke between the lines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• By now they should be over the lines, the first ones anyway. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Steadily and divergently mankind pursued one or other of these two lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Soon two persons were seen coming towards our lines bearing a white flag. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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