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Sentences starting with lines

Lines of soldiers kept a wide passage clear from the front door away down to the high altar; and there was a good mass of spectators on the outside. [4]

Sentences ending with lines

Well, I didn't write those lines. [6]
But is Merlin working strictly on pious lines? [5]
Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
Second, those who will take the oath and be discharged and whose homes lie safely within our military lines. [7]
The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
Hospitably he drew us out of the wind and rain into his little hut, and sat us down beside the stove, cheerfully informing us that, only the night before, the gale had blown his door in, and his roof had started for the German lines. [9]
He strode on uncompromisingly, and his clean-shaved face was set in rigid lines. [4]
So I condense two hours into two lines. [9]
He had taken this method of escaping to our lines. [9]
Exactly one-half of the second page is occupied with an opera criticism, fifty-three lines (three of them being headlines), and "Death Notices," ten lines. [5]

Short sentences using lines

The lines run thus: "Alas!--alas!--a--alas! [5]
The lines are not amiss. [10]
He skipped a few lines. [9]
Only ten lines. [5]

Sentences containing lines two or more times

I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
By and by these flakes fused themselves together in interminable lines, with shady faint hollows between the lines, the long satin-surfaced rollers following each other in simulated movement, and enchantingly counterfeiting the majestic march of a flowing sea. [5]
We buy up the little lines for nothing, and get an interest in the big ones, and sell the little lines for fifty times what they cost us, and guarantee big dividends for the big lines. [9]
There were lines of irritation in his face and lines of weariness. [4]
These telegrams consist of fourteen and two-thirds lines from Berlin, fifteen lines from Vienna, and two and five-eights lines from Calcutta. [5]
Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together. [5]
Reformers like Dimsdale had drawn straight lines of purpose for the salvation of the country, and they had seen these straight lines go crooked under their very eyes, with a devilish smoothness. [11]

More example sentences with the word lines in them

Old Age.--There, between your eyebrows,--three straight lines running up and down; all the probate courts know that token,--"Old Age, his mark. [6]
Think the lines you mention are by far the best I ever wrote, hey? [6]
And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
For a hundred years the South was developed on its own lines, with astonishingly little exterior bias. [4]
Don't bother to write a letter--3 lines on a postal card is all that I can permit from a busy man. [5]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
Side by side with them the Berkshires cursed and raged and had their way; and when the Sikhs drew over and laid themselves along the English lines a wild cheer went up from the Berkshires. [11]
Her eyes swam with tears now, the lines of pain at her mouth relaxed, the dark look in her eyes stole away. [11]
If they meet with men who are doubtful as to the man they will support, such voters should be designated in separate lines, with the name of the man they will probably support. [7]
It is crowded with lines worn smooth as old sesterces by constant quotation. [6]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
We tried him with all sorts of lines and a piece of pork, but he declined to take hold. [5]
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi. [6]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
I think you will be willing to hear some lines which embody the subdued and limited desires of my maturity. [6]
By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]
These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
Now you see what a power Carnegie is, and how far his voice reaches in the several lines I speak of. [5]
Pieces of board were nailed over the defective spots in the floor, and the lines where the walls met rarely showed a right angle. [10]
If your journey were from a sand-pit on our side to a lighthouse on the other, you could make it quicker by other lines, but that is not the case. [5]
If every one were as perfect in the marriage relation as those who are reading these lines, the question of the wife's letters would never arise. [4]
She knew full well the meaning of the deep lines that marked his lips and brow; for Porphyrius had never made any secret of his distress and vexation whenever he found himself compelled to confess a creed in which he did not honestly believe. [10]
The lines were well disguised, yet they increased, and year by year grew deeper. [10]
You are quite welcome to the lines "To the Rhodora;" but I think they need the superscription ["Lines on being asked 'Whence is the Flower?'"]. [6]
And what shall we do with Pope's "Essay on Man," which has furnished more familiar lines than "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" both together? [6]
Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
There was something very wilful in her beauty, and her body too had delicate, melancholy lines strange in one so young. [11]
The lamp-light fell upon his face, and the lines she had formerly perceived looked like deep shadows between his eyes and mouth. [10]
They were drawn up on two lines facing each other with fixed bayonets, a grim look on their faces that would certainly have put any Hun to flight. [9]
Little, dark-pencilled lines under the eyes were nigh robbing these of the haughtiness I had once seen and hated. [9]
There were lines under his eyes that spoke of vigils. [9]
The lines are unaffected and very touching, full of that deep affection which united the brothers in the closest intimacy, and of the tenderest love for the mother whom he was leaving to see no more. [6]
He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing--and so on. [5]
If the following two lines which I have cut from it are your natural handwriting, then I understand you to ask me "for a farewell letter in the name of the American people. [5]
The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly what it is. [7]
If he comes towards the upper Potomac, follow on his flank, and on the inside track, shortening your lines while he lengthens his. [7]
There were vineyards, too, and thrifty patches of vegetables, and lines of flowers set in the carefully raked mould. [9]
It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
Well, Mr. Hopkins told me he wrote those lines in one evening without stopping! [6]
He was anxious to visit Washington and study the politics of the country, and see the sort of society produced in the freedom of a republic, where there was no court to give the tone and there were no class lines to determine position. [4]
From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest human architecture. [5]
We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted. [6]
We have listened to the firing on the skirmish lines for a long time, and now the real battle is at hand. [9]
And he seemed to read between the lines that the renunciation he demanded was too great. [9]
While rightly resolved to prosecute the war on the battle lines to the utmost limit of American resources, he points out that the true significance of the conflict lies in "revolutionary change. [9]
When Henderson rose to propose the health of Jerry Hollowell, neither he nor the man he eulogized as a creator of industries whose republican patriotism was not bound by State lines nor circumscribed by sections was without a sense of the humor of the situation. [4]
We are beginning to learn that we cannot draw arbitrary lines with infallible justice. [4]
Please communicate leave to him to pass our lines, and come to me here at Washington. [7]
Susan went straight to her room, dried her tears so as to write in a fair hand, but had to stop every few lines and take a turn at the "dust-layers," as Mrs. Clymer Ketchum's friend used to call the fountains of sensibility. [6]
It was necessary to fight an unexpected battle at Smolensk to save our lines of communication. [2]
A. Campbell desire to cross my lines, in accordance with an understanding claimed to exist with Lieutenant-General Grant, on their way to Washington as peace commissioners. [7]
Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
I had printed those same lines, years ago, in "The Contributors' Club," to which I have rarely sent any of my prose or verse. [6]
About fifty of those lines, as one perceives, deal with local matters; so the reporters are not overworked. [5]
Do you see those fine lines on the face of the water that branch out like the ribs of a fan. [5]
From the bridge they had a view of endless lines of moving baggage trains before and behind them. [2]
We listened to these lines in silence. [6]
Vigilance never slept there in the days of which these lines bear record. [11]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. [2]
They were in the York and North-Midland Company, which was one of Mr. Hudson's pet lines, and had the full benefit of his peculiar system of management. [14]
As Carnac saw the world where there was not a single material thing that belonged to him, he had a sudden conviction that his life would run in other lines than those within which it had been drawn to the present time. [11]
The proprietor of the Telegraph House is the superintendent of the land lines of Cape Breton, a Scotchman, of course; but his wife is a Newfoundland lady. [4]
Both faces of the tablets were covered with irregular, up-and-down lines of writing to the following effect: "Rufinus, in view of death, to his beloved Philippus: "One shivering fit after another comes over me; I shall certainly die to-day. [10]
Ariabignes, chief of the Secretaries' "I had scarcely placed these lines in the sleeve of my robe, when the king's mother, with her garments rent, and led by Atossa, pressed hastily into the hall. [10]
Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy. [2]
Filing off on the right and left, they formed two long lines, extending from the gateway of the palace to the water's edge. [5]
Clarke's Island (where the Pilgrims heard a sermon on the first Sunday), Saguish Point, and Gurnett Headland (showing now twin white lights) appear like a long island intersected by thin lines of blue water. [4]
The shores of the Nile looked like two long lines of fire. [10]
In "The Test," the Muse says:-- "I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find; All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted good and true ... Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. [6]
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]
He again repeated the lines with the affectionate modulation of a musician. [11]
And these were the lines that one of "The Boys," as they have always called themselves for ever so many years, read at the first meeting after the voice which had never failed them was hushed in the stillness of death. [6]
We read between the lines of his own eulogies of himself, that there was a widespread skepticism about his greatness and his achievements, which he attributed to jealousy. [4]
When she read the lines concerning herself, she became cold from head to foot, but she knew that Nahoum never took his eyes from her face, and she gave no outward sign of what was passing within. [11]
Forlorn as was the hotel at Union, the landlord's daughters were beginning to draw the lines in rural refinement. [4]
The Emperor entered the hall through a broad path between two lines of nobles. [2]
The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
The deciphering of the first lines in which, it is true, she called him a godly knight, but also informed him that his boldness had angered her, caused him much difficulty, and Biberli was often obliged to help. [10]
I remarked for the fiftieth time how strong her face was, with its generous lines and clearly moulded features. [9]
In the column the feeling grew that unless it could burst through the Boer lines at this point it was done for. [5]
He tore open the envelope, his eye ran over the lines, and then he began to slap his thigh and turn around in a circle, like a man dazed. [9]
He rather preferred the East Side to the West Side lines, because they offered more nationalities, conditions, and characters to his inspection. [8]
This poem has the dignity of "Lycidas" without its refrigerating classicism, and with all the tenderness of Cowper's lines on the receipt of his mother's picture. [6]
But whence came the deep lines about her red mouth and the outer corners of her eyes? [10]
Afterwards it becomes the cypher, and even at its highest it is expressed by angles, lines, and geometrical forms--substances and allusive shapes. [11]
Instead of developing the colonial simplicity on lines of dignity and harmony to modern use, we stuck on the pseudo-classic, we broke out in the Mansard, we broke all up into the whimsicalities of the so-called Queen Anne, without regard to climate or comfort. [4]
In spite of the calmness and restraint of the first lines, because of them, I felt creeping over me an unnerving sensation I knew for dread.... "Hugh, the New York doctor has been here. [9]
The sea had the blue of Nice; why must we always go to the Mediterranean for an aqua marina, for poetic lines, for delicate shades? [4]
He took in the blocky shoulders and the square head, and he pictured the little eyes at a vanishing-point in lines of a bargain. [9]
I am satisfied that there are as great masters of this nerve-playing as Vieuxtemps or Thalberg in their lines of performance. [6]
The first thing that struck me, as he lowered the glass and leaned against a gun, was the melancholy in the lines of his figure. [11]
Three days in that narrow space between the lines lay the dead and wounded suffering untold agonies in the moist heat. [9]
The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. [2]
At last when that little concentrated telegram came, announcing Vicksburg and Gettysburg on the same day and in two lines, I found myself almost alone. [6]
I am sorry that I did not ask Tennyson to read or repeat to me some lines of his own. [6]
There were shadows that betrayed less roundness to her face; there were lines that told of weariness; but in her eyes there was a glowing light of hope. [11]

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