A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

Competition from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked drop of profits on the Atlantic run.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

It expanded from hand screw machines to automatic screw machines, from simple formed-tooth gear cutting machines to gear hobbing machines and a large contract gear manufacturing business, from rudimentary belt-driven universal milling machines to a broad line of elaborately controlled knee-type and manufacturing type milling machines.

Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.

Then lay a three-inch-wide strip of cloth along the keel line from the transom to the point of the stem.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

Borrowing a line from Don Marquis' Mehitabel.

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

* The song " Rocky Mountain Way " by Joe Walsh includes the line, " The bases are loaded and Casey's at bat.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

* The song " Centerfield " by John Fogerty includes the line " Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin ' it from the bench.

The track has a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff coupled with orchestral arrangements and narrated excerpts from the United Kingdom Public Information Film series Protect and Survive peppered throughout the song and its various mixes.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

* " Hee-Haw's All-Jug Band ": A musical segment, featuring most of the female cast members, singing a comical song, in which the punch line differed each week.

People from Hawick call themselves " Teries ", after a traditional song which includes the line " Teribus ye teri odin ".

Fraser and Kelley report a Manx new-year song which begins with the line To-night is New Year's Night, Hogunnaa but did not record the full text in Manx.

* The Ice Cube song " Now I Gotta Wet ' Cha " featured the line " I'll Kurtis Blow yo ass away / Like AJ ".

" and his song " On the Block ( Golden Era )" features the line " At the roller rink no skates on, early 80's girl chasing, Kurtis Blow these are the breaks on.

* The 2Pac song " Old School " featured the line " Remember poppin ' and lockin ' to Kurtis Blow, the name belts ".

A parody of a track on the album was that by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 song " We Are Normal ", which featured a line from " The Red Telephone ", viz ' We are normal and we want our freedom / We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon '.

It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " ( 1965 ), which may have taken its title from a Kerouac novel, included the line, " Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine ", and his " Mr. Tambourine Man " ( 1965 ) requested " Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship ".

Whether this was intended as a drug reference was unclear, but the line would enter rock music when the song was a hit for the Byrds later in the year.

The " pompatus " line is also a reference to an earlier song of his, " Enter Maurice ", which was recorded the previous year:

Wolfman Jack frequently referenced the phrase and there is a sound clip of him using the line within the song " Clap for the Wolfman " by The Guess Who.

Humor columnist Dave Barry frequently refers to the song line as a source of comedic value, particularly in his 1997 book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.

The same technique is also noted in the book How to Rap, where diagrams are used to show how the lyrics line up with the beat – " stressing a syllable on each of the four beats gives the lyrics the same underlying rhythmic pulse as the music and keeps them in rhythm ... other syllables in the song may still be stressed, but the ones that fall in time with the four beats of a bar are the only ones that need to be emphasized in order to keep the lyrics in time with the music ".

When Travis meets Betsy to join him for coffee and pie, he reminds her of a line in Kris Kristofferson's song " The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 ": " He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction — a walking contradiction.