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.

* Swansea Metro, a bus rapid transit line in Wales

Here the ex-GWR South Wales mainline from London to Swansea is joined by another GWR line from Shrewsbury via Hereford.

With the extension of Toronto's Queen Street and Queen streetcar line as ' The Queensway ' along the southern limits of the village, Swansea quickly urbanised with many apartment buildings being built in the western half of the area.

In 1933, it was redefined to consist of the part of the Township of York lying west of a line drawn north from the limits of the city of Toronto along Weston Road and west along Lambton Avenue to the Humber River, the Township of Etobicoke, the towns of Mimico and New Toronto and the villages of Long Branch and Swansea.

Passenger services to Usk and Monmouth ended in 1955, and the line to Neath and Swansea ( which also stopped at a station called Pontypool Clarence Street on the edge of the town centre ) closed in 1964-the latter being the only rail service in the area which actually did fall victim to Dr Beeching.

This original sewer outlet was finally made inactive in around 1996 following the construction of a brand new pipeline which ran all the way back around the Bay following the line of the old Mumbles Railway as far as Beach Street, along the sea-side of the Maritime Quarter and through Swansea Docks to a new £ 90 million sewage treatment plant at Crymlyn Burrows near Port Tennant from which a new outlet was made, extending further out to sea.

wanted to extend the line from Pontarddulais to Swansea.

After full-scale testing of a 83 km ( 45 nautical mile ) HAIS pipe between Swansea in Wales and Watermouth in North Devon, the first line to France was laid on 12 August 1944, over the 130 km ( 70 nautical miles ) from Shanklin Chine on the Isle of Wight through the English Channel to Cherbourg.

Swansea station is a terminus, at the end of a branch line off the South Wales Main Line and West Wales Line, so all trains from Paddington to Carmarthen and Pembroke Dock must omit calling there, which is done using a stretch of track bypassing the station completely and connecting the two lines.

A railway line from Clarbeston Road to Fishguard Harbour carries two Swansea – Fishguard boat trains in each direction daily through Ford.

Fare-paying passengers were carried on a line between Oystermouth, Mumbles and Swansea Docks from 1807.

Historically, the line was known as the Central Wales Line () and also included routes through Gowerton, where the railway crossed the West Wales Line and ran through Dunvant and Killay then down through the Clyne Valley to Blackpill, and then along the sea wall to Swansea Bay station, ( near the former slip bridge ) before finally reaching Swansea Victoria.

The line is single track throughout ( except for a few miles at the southern end shared with the Swansea District Line ) and has been operated under a Light Railway Order since 1972.

Didcot is a major junction, where the former Great Western Railway line to, Birmingham and points north leaves the Great Western Main Line to Bristol Temple Meads via, and also to Swansea via and.

The line between Chepstow and Swansea opened on 18 June 1850 ; it later became the GWR main line.

Also, situated on a spur line just south of Belmont railway station, was a large railway coal loading facility, whereby motor trucks from collieries as far afield as Swansea, New South Wales, could load their coal into railway trucks for transporting to Newcastle's port.

It was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated with the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) in 1863, but it was not originally on the South Wales Railway main line, planned to connect London with the port of Fishguard, and Swansea passengers had to change at Landore, two miles to the north until at least 1879.

The bridge filled a gap in the main rail line between Gloucester and Swansea.

The line between Chepstow railway station and Swansea was opened on 18 June 1850, and on 19 September 1851 the line was completed between Gloucester and a station east of the river, known as Chepstow East.

The new railway line, and bridge, had the effect of reducing the journey time between London and Swansea from 15 hours, by rail, road and ferry, to 5 hours by rail.

The South Wales Railway between Swansea and Chepstow ( later Gloucester ) passes through Magor and a station was opened here in the 1850s, shortly after the line opened.

In 1866, a new line was built connecting Pontardulais with Swansea which made Pontardulais an important railway junction.