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Larry found a crowd of policemen lined up some distance away from the conflagration, keeping people back of the fire lines.
All the forces of the community lined up on either side and never have political parties fought more determinedly and relentlessly.
There they lined up, strapped on their cartridge belts, shouldered their carbines and started to march through the brush.
We Americans, you know, are accustomed to using municipal regulations for gun wadding when we line up to help the eagle scream.
Among them Lola and Randolph in night clothes, were already lined up against the wall, with their hands above their heads.
During the voyage of, I believe, eight days, I loafed about, lining up for rations with the boys ... no one questioned me.
As we were floating downwards we cast the lines up the current, taking our seat on a stout bough projecting over the water.
He lined up beside Shaky; he noted sly sidelong glances and furtive faces reflected in the blistered mirror behind the bar.
Dawn found all in readiness, and at the summons of the bugle all lined up before Ensign Hargreaves to receive their orders.
Overhead hovered a flock of little silver submarines, lined up rather more orderly in the air than the humans were on the ground.
Here they lined up for a general inspection, which included neatness of dress, clean hands and faces, and freshly shined shoes.
A heavy mantle of the same material and color lined up with ermine was evidently intended to be worn with it on ceremonial occasions.
They lined up, a ragged mass of impertinence, as near the women as they dared, and waited for the leader of the opposition.
There was a big crowd present to watch the skaters, who were lined up, receiving their last instructions from the officials.
As the others lined up behind it, the crippled but dauntless leader headed the silent rush of fighting men across the street.
The Meteors, like a great flock of fireflies, followed along in their wake, and when they stopped they lined up for orders.
Absolute democrats can also line up their witnesses: the conservatism of the Swiss, Wisconsin's successful experiments, the patience and judgment of the Danes.
Would I take a drink from a somewhat lawless and very clever lady who really believed I had her lined up for Rehabilitation?
With all sails set and keeping well apart, the boats heeled over, their crews sitting lined up along the weather gunwales.
All the men in the room, save the four guarding the doors, lined up and advanced slowly, swerving and slashing their swords.
Two teams were formed and at the end of each day's practice these were lined up against each other and a fierce scrimmage occurred.
While descending into a little valley we were stopped by a number of heavily laden teams, lined up in the middle of the road.
With a rather resigned air Betty followed her chums into the drug store and presently all were lined up before the marble-topped counter.
Their left flank had been turned, and the triumphant enemy was rolling their long line up in a shroud of flame and death.
Cheerily they took stock of their weapons, drank a health from a tub of stiff grog, and lined up for Captain Bonnet's inspection.
The five Baker children tore round the corner of the house, over the back fence, and lined up, whooping joyously, on the platform.
The other players line up in single file at some distance, with the leader at the head and the footer at the rear of the line.
He summoned his executioners, and when they were lined up before him, he surveyed the evil-looking band with a cunning gleam in his eye.
Passengers crowded to the side of the ship, waving in tearful silence, or gaily shouting last words, to friends lined up on the dock.
Poison Club Small logs of stove length, flat on one end, are lined up between the base and distance lines in front of each team.
He made a slow bank, lined up the wreck and throttled down, dropping the nose to a shallow glide in order to maintain flying speed.
Idly, for the hundredth time, Johnson let his gaze run over the tourists lining up for their "thrill" journey out onto the Strip.
With this load they have to climb up the alternate notches cut in the trunks of trees, placed in a zigzag line up the shaft.
At the appointed hour the contestants lined up, and at a word from George Strong, who had consented to start them, they were off.
Lined up against its wall, we might any other time have bantered about the possibility of being shot, but we are in no mood to jest.
Presently however these were marched out of the cages and lined up in miscellaneous squads derived from varying units with no distinction of rank.
Asked the judge, as he glanced at the twelve contestants lined up before him, for each college had entered three in the fifty-six event.
Lined up ahead were several space taxis, or fliers, which were used for trips outside the station and also doubled as lifeboats in time of emergency.
They've already got the kids lined up, and we've given 'em the candy bars wrapped in propaganda leaflets that we all carry.
Lined up at the rail stood the four adventurers, and the glass passed from one to another like the eye of the three Grey Sisters.
What he said about not wanting to shoot defenseless game gave me a wrench, for we cherish notions along that same line up here in the wilderness.
When these sections had hardened the forms were shifted to the vacant sections and lined up to and braced against the completed sections.
The rest lined up in a triple row across a wide patch in the tunnel, presenting a phalanx it would appear that nothing could beat.
Adams lined up almost on her fifteen yards and, after one try at Reid which gave her a scant two yards, punted out of danger.
Behind the counter two boys in spotless caps and aprons were working with desperate haste to cool the dusty throats lined up before them.
In front of the weather-etched pillars of the portico, Judge Judson lined up his slaves, and dismissed them from servile happiness into precarious freedom.
As he seemed to be on hostile intent, the youths lined up in front of the girls, ready to defend them and grapple with the foe.
They had to line up for the bathroom, then each nurse was allowed only a basin full of water for bathing and clothes washing.
Squinting down its axis he lined up the uneven contours one after the other and laid the shaft aside until a series of five was completed.
Before the game the reporter equips himself with a table of the players showing them in their respective places as the two teams line up.
In the first confectionery store which they came to they lined up at the soda counter from behind which a white-jacketed man smiled at them.
Adams lined up quickly and hurled her full-back at Jelly, but Jelly was stiffer than his name indicated and there was small gain.
He paid not the slightest attention to these scouts as they entered and lined up on the row of revolving stools before the greasy counter.
They separated, lining up on each side of the leader now standing a little in advance of the twin tetrahedrons, rigid and motionless as watching guards.
As the boys were obliged to line up for roll call before going home, the chums did not now have to meet on the street corner.
Two buckets were filled with water from over side, hand swabs were got from the deck chest, and our men lined up for work.
The hole in the center of the pulley should line up perfectly with a hole of the same size in the center of each one of the plates.
With them, and lined up all along the village street, was one battery, with the drivers dismounted, and all that body were at ease.
When just out of rifle shot of the cabins the band of horsemen halted and lined up in a half circle, all facing the ranch.
They were lined up as deep as the barn would hold them, crammed into every available foot of space; well over a dozen cars, he reckoned swiftly.
They lined up the seventy chemists and their assistants, and while the gunmen held them and their helpers the bandits looted the plant.
At a nod and wink from Patrol Leader Chase, the whole troop lined up in front of the astonished Mike and silently made the regulation salute.
Dominating the scene here, Gabrielle, a popular professional dancer, has hoisted her skirts as she lines up with the others to begin the dance.
And always, lined up on either side of the street, was the raving, crazy mob that cheered them, flinging up their hats and waving handkerchiefs.
Some seedy looking bums were lined up against the bar chinning whilst others were sipping beer and paying their best respects to the lunch counter.
"We may as well begin our practice," he said, "by lining up on both sides of the playground and punting the ball back and forth."
The figures lined up on both sides of them blurred rapidly as the sled picked up speed, and wind and snow whipped into their faces.
The movements of the line up and down on the revolving drum of paper show how the convulsions succeed each other, and their varying intensity.
The teams lined up, and thereupon Thayer, with his eagle eye looking us over, called out to our captain 'how many fellows are you playing anyway?'
There was always a string of porters lined up for treatment and each went away happy with large pieces of adhesive plaster decorating his ebony skin.
When, at last, the belated stage was ready to move on, the men, again in their overcoats, lined up and looked down at the sleeping patient.
Now, boys, line up at the trench and use your guns first, but hold your bayonets till the very last; they'll outnumber us, as you know.
Beyond these were more plane trees and another row of barracks covered with tar paper, outside of which other companies were lined up standing at attention.
Here in a factory, closed since the war, the people of the commune were lined up with their baskets waiting for their share of the rations.
As soon as our volley had been delivered the men of their own accord dropped back a rod or two, lined up and went steadily at work.
The racing boats lined up off the flagship where the men received their instructions from the referee, who shouted out his orders through a megaphone.
The male population was lined up in chairs on the platform under the awning, and a curious assortment of horses and vehicles stood around in the neighborhood.
The thousands of school children, lined up near the track, maintained a silence as profound, as sympathetic and as reverent as their elders, who felt more deeply.
The driving pulleys should be lined up so that the groove in each comes directly under the groove in the corresponding pulley attached to the plate above.
Then the next followed and the next, each new crash echoed by the frightened squeals of the guests, now lined up against the opposite walls.
One seemed to be caught up and rushed back, plowed ground and slope, and lined up at the top, there loading and firing across the corn.
They lined up, a throbbing, eager batch of lads, with ears on the alert for the sound of the pistol that was to send them off.
They were lined up on each side of the road around their soup kitchens, which were smoking busily, and I had a good look at them as we drove along.
The following day they lined up, three by three, the villagers whom they had arrested the day before, taking one man out of each line.
Arriving at the prison, we groped our way through dim corridors into the reception-ward, where we were lined up against the wall for a superficial medical examination.
The others, lined up along the earthenware cornice, would gladly take part in the feast; they are bound to have an appetite after a ten hours' walk.
Cheerful villages of flimsy wooden shacks and solid stone houses followed one another in quick succession, each with its inhabitants lined up in holiday clothes to cheer.
The guards bustled round, supervising the hitching of the towing ropes, while the men were lined up like oxen with the ropes passed over their shoulders.
His clothing was hung neatly, in the approved regulation manner, with his shoes in their proper places and his caps all lined up in a row.
"Now, you gentlemen can save a lot of time if you just line up across the river," said my father, "and I'll be along to give you each a lollipop."
Sometimes they adjourned to the gymnasium floor and lined up and then walked through the evolutions of some play not clearly understandable in the Trophy Room.
It took us about two months to get our soundings all lined up, and then we found that the meteorite had struck the planet at quite an angle.
Joe had witnesses who had lined up to see him rescue a dog, and had beheld his return in triumph with a wet and soggy fur coat.
Pitt followed the usual course of successful reformers, and in due time lined up on the side of the conservatives, and gradually succumbed to a strictly aristocratic disease, gout.
The girls lined up on either side of the door and then Madge opened it to confront a very frightened little girl who awaited admittance in fear and trembling.
The trees line up in somber walls and as the storm settles into a steady downpour, between their dark fringes flows a narrow, ashen stream of sky.
Indeed, he did slope from the waist line up to his number six hat, and down to his number six boots, as abruptly as a top tapers.
Chaucer was smoking outside my pet hut talking to a couple of his subalterns, and a string of men was lined up beside the field kitchen for tea.
The next morning the whole battalion was lined up before the colonel while the adjutant read aloud the law which we boys term the "riot act."
The prisoners, who had gloomily watched the work of destruction, were now lined up, and told that they would be released upon their giving their parole.