direct line

• “The emperor, whom all those isles obeyed, was called the Dairy; and was descended from the Camis, who, according to the popular opinion, came in a direct line from the Sun.”

  The Works of John Dryden

• “Whenever Thomas Ethridge IV had something on his mind, he dialed my direct line instead of going through Rose.”

  Simon & Schuster: Body of Evidence

• “A spiritual descendant in the direct line from Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up his mind once for all on the deeper questions of existence, and admitted no further reasoning on them thenceforward.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “He perched himself beside Biddy on the arm of the settee in a direct line between the fortune teller and Judge Lobbett.”

  Mystery Mile

• “New Haven is situated at the head of a fine bay, four miles from Long Island Sound, and seventy-six miles from New York, on the direct line of Rail-road, and great thoroughfare between that city and Boston, and can be reached in three hours by Rail-road and about five by water from New York.”

  History of the American Clock Business and Life of Chauncey Jerome

• “She was the last of the direct line that had held the title to Rennes-le-Château, although other branches of the family continued.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

• “Wynn Westcott, its direct line of descent went back to the Gold and Rosy Cross, the Strict Templar Observance order from Germany discussed in the last chapter, as did many of its actual grade names and rituals81.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

• “Mr. Hawkins observed, that Phlius, the ruins of which still exist near Agios Giorgios, lies in a direct line between Cleonae and Stymphalus, and another from”

  Life of Lord Byron

• “She scrounged in her purse, dug out her cell phone, flipped it open, and quickly dialed the station, the direct line to the radio show.”

  Shiver

• “The other island (Espanola) is larger in circuit than the whole of Spain, from the Straits of Gibralter (the Columns) to Fuentarabia in Biscay, as I sailed 138 long leagues in a direct line from west to east.”

  Christopher Columbus

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