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Sentences starting with line

Line and tone are everything; that is our motto. [10]

Sentences ending with line

And why couldn't you have answered my letter yesterday, if it were only a line? [9]
I knew that you had advertised a trip to Europe (why, the Lord only knows), so I went East and sailed for England on the Canadian Line. [9]
Don't you think you and I should be apt to do just so, if we were in the critical line? [6]
If I could write, I dare say I should be better, but I cannot write a line. [14]
I would not write him a line. [10]
Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
It is curious, with his tendency to optimism and general expansion of futures, that he says nothing of the possible sales of the new book, or of his expectations in that line. [5]
It is long, with a short cross-bar, and the cross-bar is canted out of the straight line. [5]
I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
I tell 'ee what, sir, them Frenchies is treecherous devils, an' not to be trusted the len'th of a lead line. [9]

Short sentences using line

What line are you in? [12]
What line do they take? [11]
Give me the line. [5]
The Bengals is breakin' line! [11]
Not a line. [5]

Sentences containing line two or more times

Probably the man who first said that the line of rectitude corresponds with the line of enjoyment was disliked as well as disbelieved. [4]
Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
Another sticks close to its own line of thought and follows it as far as it goes, with no heed for others' opinions, as the bishop sweeps the board in the line of his own color. [6]
True to themselves, they will not ask where a line of separation shall be, but will vow rather that there shall be no such line. [7]
Falling into line these strikers would march across the bridge between the towns at such time as would bring them into touch with the line of the Orange funeral--two processions meeting at right angles. [11]
Those belonging to the little Cairo line and the little Memphis line always stopped; the big Orleans liners stopped for hails only, or to land passengers or freight; and this was the case also with the great flotilla of "transients. [5]
Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but it is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first. [5]
Again, as at the Enns bridge, there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear--resembling the line separating the living from the dead--lay between them. [2]
By the different style of living I can tell when I cross the line between Connecticut and New York as certainly as when I cross the line between Vermont and Canada. [4]
Doost think a straight line could come from the crooked line you drew for him? [11]

More example sentences with the word line in them

If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
Very well; five years ago, when the troubles concerning the frontier line arose between Great Britain and Siam, it was presently manifest that Siam had been in the wrong. [5]
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. [6]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
An Englishman may write with the most brutal frankness about any man or institution among us and we republish him without dreaming of altering a line or a word. [5]
He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. [5]
No; but I would have criminals believe, and society believe, that in going to prison a man or woman does not pass an absolute line and go into a fixed state. [4]
The 'last bells' would begin to clang, all down the line, and then the powwow seemed to double; in a moment or two the final warning came,--a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, 'All dat ain't goin', please to git asho'! [5]
And what a world it would be if there had not been a continuous line of such mistaken fools as he! [4]
Before setting to work to prepare my speeches it was necessary to make an attempt to familiarize myself with the seemingly unprecedented line of argument Krebs had evolved--apparently as disconcerting to his friends as to his opponents. [9]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
In a line with that you may see two others: the coral fan, as I always called it from its resemblance in form to that beautiful marine growth, and a third a little farther along. [6]
He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his own canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his descent. [1]
It's in line with other things that are happening. [13]
I paused once with a twinge of remembrance before the long line of the Ursuline convent, with its latticed belfry against the sky. [9]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
He understood his wife's line of thought. [2]
The priestesses--some of whom, with garlands on their flowing hair, were already shaking the sistrum of Isis--mingled with the line of priests, their high voices blending with the deep notes of the men. [10]
I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. [5]
At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
That man's name who ran that line of stages--well, I declare that name is gone. [5]
Only a few who had been their closest friends received a written line, but the little printed acknowledgment which was returned was no mere formality. [5]
Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. [2]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
He gazed a while through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged,--it's a raft! [5]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
That Greek line, which I do not remember having heard mention of as remarkable, has nearly every consonantal and vowel sound in the language. [6]
From position in which horse lies, think elephant traveled northward along line Berkley Railway. [5]
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing of the dahabieh, her eyes fixed in reverie on the farthest horizon line of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand. [11]
Do you see where the line fringes out at the upper end and begins to fade away? [5]
And at length, when the sun was beginning visibly to fall, they came out into an open cut on the western side and saw again the long line of Coniston once more against the sky. [9]
His eye paused when in line with us, and we were seized with astonishment to behold him making in our direction. [9]
And this was what impressed the reporters when, in the line of their public duty, they were admitted to her presence. [4]
Away to the west, on the line of the Pacific railroad that led halfway across the state, was another camp. [9]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
By six we were well over the line, and consulting our chart, we selected a cove behind a headland on our left, which seemed the best we could do for an anchorage, although it was shallow and full of rocks. [9]
Though my legs were short, I had both sinew and training, and now I was at one end of the line and now at the other. [9]
And then there were huge log gates with watch-towers on either sides where sentries sat day and night scanning the forest line. [9]
Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. [5]
I thought we were above the labour-trouble line, away up here in New England. [9]
What line have we written that was on a level with our conceptions? [6]
On Saturday morning we took up our line of march for New York. [6]
Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
Traversing a drift, we came to the Spanish line, passed five sets of timbers still uninjured, and found the earthquake. [5]
Exclusive of the water line, you are now nearer to Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that you can and he must take. [7]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides. [2]
Under the name was printed a line which showed that this visitor was Professor of Theological Engineering in Wellington University, New Zealand. [5]
Planned, premeditated excitement was out of their line. [11]
The white herd was now strung out in a line two miles long. [13]
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
The third storey was lower than the others, separated from them by a distinct line. [9]
At least he was just going to resign--for he felt that he must draw the line somewhere, and it seemed to him that to draw it at kitten-drowning was about the right thing--when there was an interruption. [5]
Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the unaccustomed position of having to maintain a not too familiar and not too distant line of deportment. [4]
A feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of the factor, and then they all fell into line again, Cloud-in-the-Sky running ahead of the dogs. [11]
A third line was at once furnished-- "Corruptibles far from Hadleyburg are--" The house roared that one too. [5]
Mr. Dickinson, who was a director in the Maplewood line, got a handsome underwriting percentage, and Mr. Berringer, also a director, on the bonds and preferred stock he sold. [9]
As Janet's glance wandered down the line it was arrested by the face of a man in a visored woollen cap--a face that was almost sepia, in which large white eyeballs struck a note of hatred. [9]
You are the vile scum of the earth,"--he determined to take a strong line now, since he had made a powerful impression on the creature before him--"and you will do what the Baas likes, not what you like. [11]
The infallible result?--victory, victory all down the line. [5]
Not a line vexed her face or forehead. [11]
This was another very noticeable personage in the line of Emerson's ancestors. [6]
The streets are very layed out by line and too paved. [5]
In all the vast territory, away up to the Utah line, over which he had wandered, he met human beings (excluding "Indians and others not taxed ") so rarely that he was in danger of being locoed. [4]
But not in vain, for some day, and every day, along the line, there is a cry, "They fly! [4]
I have learned utterly to distrust them, and never allow them to bully me out of a thought or line. [6]
My field of usefulness is about trimmed down to tramps, budding authoresses, and that line of goods now; but don't you worry --I'll harry you on theirs while they last! [5]
Natasha was so used to this kind of talk with her husband that for her it was the surest sign of something being wrong between them if Pierre followed a line of logical reasoning. [2]
Well, time's about up--must drop a line to Aldrich. [5]
Alencon Barre looked up, agony twitching his nostrils and a dry white line on his lips. [11]
How John rushed up to the line. [9]
But I made up my mind it was nonsense to draw the line at department stores, especially since Mr. Ferguson's was such a useful and remarkable one, so I went across and called. [9]
A hundred yards up began a line of grotesque cedar-trees, and they extended along the slope clear to its most southerly end. [13]
And they drew up as in line of battle in the Place d'Armes,--dragoons, fusileros de montanas, light and heavy infantry. [9]
I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between Richmond and here. [7]
With confidence he unreeled the dark line out to the end. [11]
They are produced under very different conditions, and betray that fact in every line. [6]
The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
Slowly the cortege uncoiled itself to one long unbroken line from the steps of the Cohue Royale to the porch of the church. [11]
He came here two months ago to be the President of this Fifth Street car line. [9]
At last they turned the prow to the landing, Forbes rowing, and Marion dragging her hand in the water, and looking as if she had never cast a line. [4]
Suddenly he stopped, turned and shook his fist at the line of soldiers. [9]
Venters noted that Tull and the line of horsemen, perhaps ten or twelve in number, stopped several times and evidently looked hard down the slope. [13]
And this is true, wherever a dividing or boundary line may be fixed. [7]
We could see trout by the thousand winging about in the emptiness under us, or sleeping in shoals on the bottom, but they would not bite--they could see the line too plainly, perhaps. [5]
At last the trees take up their solemn line of march, and never rest until they have encamped in the market-place. [6]
If the distance traversed by a locomotive in an hour is represented by one tenth of an inch, it would need a line nine feet long to indicate the corresponding advance of the earth in the same time. [4]
Herbert and I, traveling north one summer, fancied that we could draw in New England a sort of diet line, like the sweeping curves on the isothermal charts, which should show at least the leading pie sections. [4]
Now if we travel a hundred miles in a straight line, we come to the eternal Summer of Sacramento. [5]
They blocked the traffic, halted the clanging trolleys, surged into the mouth of West Street, booing and cursing at the soldiers whose threatening line of bayonets stretched across that thoroughfare half-way down toward the canal, guarding the detested Chippering Mill. [9]
Then get the towns on the line to issue their bonds for stock, and sell their bonds for enough to complete the road, and partly stock it, especially if we mortgage each section as we complete it. [5]
He owns this town, he's run it to suit himself, He stiffens up the owners and holds the other mills in line. [9]
The conductor turned towards Philip, and coolly and deliberately surveyed him from head to foot, with contempt in every line of his face, turned his back upon him without a word, and said to the lady, "Come, I've got no time to talk. [5]

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