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n. (plural of neat line English)
Usage examples of "neat lines".
He felt a stab in his chest, saw it was a brigade, maybe more, a line of men stretching far into the trees, neat lines slowly stepping forward.
She was dressed overall, all her obligatory flags stiff in the breeze, crowds of white-clothed sailors on her vast deck, with neat lines of her vicious fighter jet airplanes.
The Brigaderos were trying to fall back now, but they weren't doing it in the neat lines in which they attacked.
Sergeants and centurions moved along the neat lines to inspect the gear.
However, the bottom land of the valley was crisscrossed with neat lines of claim pegs, each standing on its little cairn of stones.
Both rooms were in darkness, with ten Browns sleeping in neat lines.
They went across the emerald lawn, past high privet hedges and neat lines of boxwood interspersed with flower beds.
They exchanged silent but expressive farewells, then stood up straight and tried to fade into the background as the white-stripes began chivvying people into neat lines with their whipping-canes.
He had to squint to look at it, kept his head down, looked left, saw Pettigrew's men still moving, but the neat lines were gone, growing confusion, the flags dropping, no Rebel yell now, no more screams of victory, the men falling here and there like trees before an invisible axe you could see them go one by one and in clumps, suddenly, in among the columns of smoke from the shell.
Fretfully, he fingered a parchment sheet that lay at the corner of the table, running a hand up the neat lines of its text and then down again, up and then down.
An honor guard of twenty marines was drawn up in two neat lines beside the flagpole, the scarlet of their uniforms a sudden splash of color.
The church was ringed by cherry trees and the lawn was circled by cars with clean quiet paint parked in neat lines.