Defn: A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
In three lines, up the slope from the Antietam, at sixty yards distance and covering a wide front, came Sedgwick on the right, French on the left, and Richardson to the left rear.
Meade advanced in three lines, each of a brigade, with skirmishers in front and on the flank, and his progress was soon checked.
Morell's division, with the two brigades abreast, arrayed in three lines, advanced across the meadows.
An example at the Dansk Folke Museum, Copenhagen, has this mark together with the three lines incised, which is an exceedingly rare mark.
We cannot say, therefore, whether this formation in three lines is in any way traceable to experience dearly bought in wars with Italian highlanders, or to a lesson taught by the terrible onset of the Gaul.
Taught by the experience of Preston Pans, the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden formed in three lines, so as to repair a broken front.
Occleve; this is of full length, both refrains being of three lines, so that the whole poem is of fourteen lines.
Some portions of the text, three linesin all, are suppressed here.
It is written with a single column on each page of twenty-one or twenty-three lines(194).
The sextain consists of eleven-syllabled or rather five-foot verses and has six stanzas of six lines each, and an envoy of three lines in addition.
Some similar rhyme-systems of three lines, occurring in Sidney and Drummond, are of less importance (cf.
Plant one to two and one-fifth inches high; pileus one to two and one-fifth inches broad; stem one to three lines thick.
The pores are two to three lines long, unequal, angular, the dissepiments becoming brownish-ferruginous with age or where bruised.
It has been seen in the case of the invocations that they vary in length from a single word to twenty-three lines, and it is fairly obvious that the increasing length of the invocation gives it more and more of hymnal character.
Then verse 4, of three lines, makes the reassuring announcement in the third person that Yahwe is mightier than the foes.
Verse 1, of three lines, makes the great announcement in the third person that Yahwe is king.
Moreover the hymn is divided into two main divisions of twelve lines each, each ending with a little hymn of three lines, which is substantially the same: Exalt ye Yahwe our God, And worship at his footstool, Holy is he.
On the morning of the 17th, with our brigade in the centre, we advanced in three lines of battle, over walls and fences, through fields, under a terrible fire of artillery.
We marched in three lines, but it was not an army, it was a mob.
Printed as prose in Ff Q; first as three lines of verse by Capell, ending let .
Ha; as prose by Pope; by Capell as three lines, ending not?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
