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Benin […] is situated nearly under the line, and extends along the coast about 170 miles […] .

St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.

"I guess it's like race cars - if you get the right line you can come out at top speed."

Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner.

a brake line

the line of sight

I tried to make a call, but the line was dead.

We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.

Drop me a line.

a line of stages

This description of the old front line, as it was when the Battle of the Somme began, may some day be of use.[…]It is hoped that this description of the line will be followed by an account of our people's share in the battle.

Eden stretch'd her Line / From Auran Eastward to the Royal Towrs / Of great Seleucia,

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines.

I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his.

Students and the instructor sing the harmony line while the instructor plays the melody line on the piano.

Of his lineage am I, and his offspring / By very line,

The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.

Nay if you read this line, remember not, / The hand that writ it.

He was perfecting his pickup lines for use at the bar.

Don't feed me a line!

He is uncommonly powerful in his own line; but it is not the line of a first-rate man.

Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).

Judy gave me a line on a lawyer who's supposed to be the best in the business.

line of business, product line

The arm of the Russian infantry is the three-line rifle, model 1891 (caliber 0.299 inch)[…].

The cut is measured in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

In case any of the committee do not understand what is meant by a rate per line, I may say that buttons, being very small, are not measured by the foot or inch, but by the line, a line being one-fortieth of an inch. For example, that is a 27-line button[…].

Advertising rates, line contract, less than 500 agate lines, 12 cents per line; 1,000 to 2,000 lines, 7 cents; 5,000 to 10,000 lines, 5 cents.

At the same time, however, for calculation in the metric system, one metre is taken as the unit for the length of the conductor, one metre per second as the unit velocity, and one line per square centimetre as the unit of field density.

Thus, for example, in the line of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the line of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Quarte).

the engine is in line / out of line

Buy white line, go a long way / Either up your nose or through your vein / With nothing to gain except killing your brain

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

patient had a line inserted

maknae line; hyung line; 97 line