The sudden lapse into the third person here for a couple of lines is due to the fact that the two Iliadic lines taken are in the third person.

{91} I suppose the lines I have enclosed in brackets to have been added by the author when she enlarged her original scheme by the addition of books i.-iv.

{101} I suppose this line to have been intercalated by the author when lines 426-446 were added.

We could see him quite plainly, gaffing the sturgeon and throwing them into the boat while his companion ran the line and cleared the hooks as he dropped them back into the water.

Regularly, every slack water, without slyness, boldly and openly in the broad day, Big Alec was to be seen running his line. And what made it particularly exasperating was the fact that every fisherman, from Benicia to Vallejo knew that he was successfully defying us.

"I'll tell you what we can do," I said, after several fruitless weeks had passed; "we can wait some slack water till Big Alec has run his line and gone ashore with the fish, and then we can go out and capture the line.

The line of battle in the edge of the wood stands at a new kind of "attention," each man in the attitude in which he was caught by the consciousness of what is going on.

So long as he advances, the line will not fire, - why should it?

SOCRATES: Do you observe, Meno, that I am not teaching the boy anything, but only asking him questions; and now he fancies that he knows how long a line is necessary in order to produce a figure of eight square feet; does he not?

SOCRATES: He only guesses that because the square is double, the line is double.

"I have just come through the German lines and yours and passed through your camp," he replied.

"I will send an officer to pass you through the lines."

They get the line round their legs, and have to sit down on the path and undo each other, and then they twist it round their necks, and are nearly strangled.

George got the line right after a while, and towed us steadily on to Penton Hook.