It was as though by prompt obedience, instant deference, and the emphasising of ship's etiquette they intended to draw sharply the line between themselves and me.

I wrote you a line to Paris, not knowing you had returned.

"It seemed to follow the deck-lines.

" How many persons there are who read those lines without giving one moment's thought to their hidden beauty.

They formed a complete line in front of us.

He used to tell me that he often wondered why he hadn't taken up this line beforethe world of energy he now set out to explore, waves in that tremendous range between those we hear and those we see.

We had, in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table Bay and at Madagascar.

" "Can we break the receiving-line now, Lester honey, and go down with everybody?

Though not given the skirmish-line next daythe 17thJack was delighted to find that the Caribees led all the rest.

He passed down the line like a general reviewing his troops, tapping lightly with a cane various arms and legs which were not in position.

At the same moment, I saw a thin line of livid flame, far in the night.

You held your lines in your fingers, and when you hooked a fish, you drew him in, hand over hand, in a human way.

Had they after this been seen by the enemy there would have been little chance of either of them reaching the British lines alive.

My father at this time was running a stage line, between Chicago and Davenport, no railroads then having been built west of Chicago.

Aeacus hears the case against Claudius, refuses to hear the other side and passes sentence against him, quoting the line: "As he did, so be he done by, this is justice undefiled.

"Then put up your goal-posts, and mark your touch-line; We'll grind them to powder, and put them in brine.

Ed. NOTE.From the unfinished word, it is possible, on the MS., to trace a faint line of ink, which suggests that the pen has trailed away over the paper; possibly, through fright and weakness.

Will you let us be as we are for a month, Edith, and if then you are of the same mind, send me a line and I will come to you by the first train.

While both armies were drawn up in skirmish line near Fort Scott, Kansas, two men on horseback were seen rapidly leaving the Confederate lines, and suddenly they made a dash towards us.

" Here is our last hope of finding a sharp line of demarcation between plants and animals; for, as I have already hinted, there is a border territory between the two kingdoms, a sort of no-man's-land, the inhabitants of which certainly cannot be discriminated and brought to their proper allegiance in any other way.

I looked over his shoulder and saw that it contained a single engraved line: M. THÉOPHILE D'AURELLE

We threw out a trolling line as we passed up the lake; but we caught no trout.

Love, obedience, and devotion unto death, are here portrayed; and yet people will repeat the lines of the melancholy muse with a smile on their faces, and even teach it to their young children as a sort of joyful lyric.

A charge at double quick was ordered, and we carried the first line of works.

After these prime parts are disposed of, the leg should next be disengaged by cutting round the line indicated by the figures 5 to 6.