That happened to me to-day, and I wrote a few lines of the poem that made my voice break--the passionate despairing cry for deliverance, for rest from the terror.
I pleaded that he need only read a few lines--I begged him to let me hear from him at once.
I only heard a part of the letter; it was to my uncle; but I believe it was very short; indeed I am sure it was but a few lines.
You might in your next letter write a few lines which, or a copy of which, I could show to Roger.
He is also a splendid pianist, who studied eighteen months with me at Weymar, and you must allow me to send Klindworth a few lines of introduction to you.
The event must show; for the present I have only written a few lines in reply to Hulsen.
Pardon me, dearest Franz, for writing a few lines to ask you a favour.
Here he wrote a few lines to Isabel Worth, regretting that he was called out of town on military business for forty-eight hours.
The letter was an autograph one of a few lines only, and dated from a village in the North of France-- My dear Brice, This is a special request to you.
Writing a few lines with a pencil, he laid it upon the table.
She dipped her pen in the blood, which continued to flow, and wrote quickly a few lines, handing them to the prince.
We need many thousand words to express what a few lines represent, and a stroke suffices to change a smiling face into a weeping one.
A few lines above we have "of the capacity of a firkin.
I traced a few lines of it, which with Del Riccio's note were given in facsimile in the First Edition.
A few lines of verse for a young friend's Album (six will be enough).
I do not even know how recent your loss may have been, and hope that I do not unseasonably present you with a few lines suggested to me this morning by the thought of him.
Charles Lamb also contributed to this letter a few lines to James Kenney, expressing his readiness to meet Moore the poet.
Again a few lines later, That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence.
We have only an apparent elision of y a few lines later in his aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, for the line would be ruined were the y to be omitted by a reader.
Can all the Trappings or Equipage of a King or Hero give Brutus half that Pomp and Majesty which he receives from a few Lines in Shakespear?
You are so good, I must write you a few lines, and you will excuse My not writing many, my posture is so uncomfortable, lying on a couch by the side of my bed, and writing on the bed.
I sent you a few lines by the post yesterday with the first of the insurrection at Madrid.
With the exception of a few lines, they are dirty.
He then writes a few lines of something he calls poetry concerning each deceased.
A few lines from a letter of Mr. Hope-Scott's to Dr.
Therefore I enclose with this a few lines to him, which you can let him have when you think right.
He was in the habit of writing her a few lines in the morning; at three o'clock he visited her, and they chatted over their tea until four, when favored visitors began to arrive.
We have the rare privilege of reading her own criticism in a letter to the secretary of the Duchesse de Savoie, in which she disowns the authorship, and adds a few lines of discreet eulogy.
His next effort was to write a few lines to Lady Harry, entreating her to remember that a jealous man is sometimes capable of acts of the meanest duplicity, and that she might be watched.
It was written by Mrs. Vimpany, and it contained a few lines added by Hugh Mountjoy.
Miss Henley had not trusted him with her new address in London; and Lord Harry had suddenly left Redburn Road; bidding his host goodbye in a few lines of commonplace apology, and nothing more.
With a pin I had by me I pricked my finger, and scrawled with my blood a few lines in reply, which I committed to the same messenger.
The next morning I received a few lines, simply expressive of the writer's thanks; but without a single jest, or the least invitation to continue the correspondence.
As you were so kind as to let me know through Count Troyer[1] that you would write a few lines on my affairs in Prague to the Oberstburggraf Count Kolowrat, I take the liberty to enclose my letter to Count K.
It would be very amiable in you to write me a few lines, to say if I can be of any use to you here.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
