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Usage examples of lines.

The rebels began to turn what was left of their line, to face the railroad cut, and some moved forward, to charge this new enemy, but there was another volley, and those lines collapsed as well.

If he moved out to the left, to the west, and came across the Rapidan upstream, he could threaten to move on the Shenandoah, or cut the rail lines that fed the Confederate army.

With the first light, the orders came down, and the men moved out in wide solid lines, flowing across a flat clear space, some slowed by the ravine, some climbing up toward a vast dense line of fire, a strong line of the enemy, protected by the quick work of the shovel.

For miles the land behind and between the lines was barren of life, as though the men had made a new world in the misery of the underground, moved only in tunnels, through the mud and darkness that bred sickness.

They moved through the rebel lines first, out into the bleak open ground, then, slowly winding, made their way through the Federal lines.

Battle of Tewkesbury, despite the appearance in the first two lines of the soliloquy that it is the very morrow of the battle that is in question.

Along the road he could see wagons moving in both directions, some filled with wounded men from the fights exploding along the front lines, the uncoordinated bursts of activity.

Player takes up the speech, spending some thirty lines on the description of the killing of Priam.

Duke of Exeter who speaks these lines is Thomas Beaufort, third and youngest son of John of Gaunt by his mistress Catherine Swynford.

It was from Normandy that William the Conqueror had come to establish himself in England and it was back to Normandy that most of the aristocracy could trace their lines and their ancestral estates.

It is hard to believe that such lines can be read seriously in surroundings that even hint at the grandeur with which Homer surrounded the Trojan War.

In this case, apparently, Shakespeare had his choice of two lines of development and did not manage to make a clear decision.

The procession moved along decorated streets and between lines of cheering spectators to the Capitol, where religious services were held.

He deliberately conducted his life along the lines of the stories that were told of the ancient Romans.

Now, three centuries later, only one male descendant remained of the older lines and he was Henry III of France, who became king in 1574.