line
/laɪn/ interjection C2- Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their dialogue and needs to be prompted with it.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill.
If we have no other way of catching him, we can always bait our line with the ring.
“‘Tention!” cried Holmes, in a sharp tone, and the six dirty little scoundrels stood in a line like so many disreputable statuettes.
No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning.
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