lay on the line

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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.

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These he kindly promised to me, even authorizing me to get them at the place where he had deposited them, and which lay on the line of my daily tramp to the ruins.

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The policy of the Corning Foundation is to demand something very definite in return for the money they lay on the line.

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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.

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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.

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