lay on the line
Example Sentences
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"Catch-22 has made me feel differently about what I lay on the line and what I do with my money too," Nichols says.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geographically, they lay on the line of the natural routes between the Atlantic on the one side, and the Ohio and the Great Lakes on the other.
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
Stafford county would be full of Nicholson's militia, and Lawrence's strong hand lay on the line of the Borders.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
Most unhappily for itself Byzantium lay on the line of division between the eastern provinces, where Pescennius Niger had been proclaimed, and the Illyrian provinces, where Severus had assumed the imperial style.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
Patna lay on the line of Law's retreat, and, as we shall see, he was joined by the second and other subordinate officers of that Factory.
From Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by S. C. (Samuel Charles) Hill
