But here's the end of the rotten
line --all dripping, too.
{38} These last three lines are identical with "Il." vxiii.
{47} We were told above (lines 357,357) that it was only one day's sail.
The tide circled like a mill-race in and out of this bight, and made it possible to raise, lower, or set a Chinese line only at slack water.
There were two men in it, and though it was a good mile away, I made out one of them to be Big Alec; and ere the skiff returned to shore I made out enough more to know that the Greek had set his line.
The colors move slowly back, the
lines face about and sullenly follow, bearing their wounded; the skirmishers return, gathering up the dead.
The first objection is, that a Flatlander, seeing a
Line, sees something that must be THICK to the eye as well as LONG to the eye (otherwise it would not be visible, if it had not some thickness); and consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge that his countrymen are not only long and broad, but also (though doubtless in a very slight degree) THICK or HIGH.
SOCRATES: And four such
lines will make a space containing eight feet?
At that instant a single rifle-shot was heard, away to the front, beyond the skirmish-line, followed, almost attended, by the savage hiss of an approaching bullet which passing through the
line, struck audibly, punctuating as with a full stop the captain's exclamation, "What the devil does it mean?"
Headquarters of the Second Rhodesians occupied a sheltered position far enough back of the
lines to be comparatively safe from enemy observation.
After passing a chasseur regiment and in the
lines of the Kiev grenadiers- fine fellows busy with similar peaceful affairs- near the shelter of the regimental commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man.
They had the boat-hook and they had the
line, and that seemed to be all that they thought necessary to their work.