red line

“At forty thousand feet, the plane leveled off, and I looked down at the curving horizon and the scattered clouds, the geography of the earth laid out before me-first the flat, checkerboard fields of western Illinois, then the python curves of the Mississippi, then more farmland and ranch land and eventually the jagged Rockies, still snow-peaked, until the sun went down and the orange sky narrowed to a thin red line that was finally consumed by night and stars and moon.”

The Audacity of Hope

“Then he drew a red line from the junction of the baby's supraorbital ridges to the tip of his smallish nose.”

The Clan of the Cave Bear

“Harvey watched the red line on the graph paper, and then for the first time answered Oppy.”

Stallion Gate

“The red line indicating the most direct path to the car's location went across the service road in front of him.”

Fictionaut: Nutrition

“A bright red line rose from the ocean and arced toward Johannesburg.”

Fictionaut: I Don’t Understand ?

“The agent's eyes followed the red line that tracked north of Quebec, across Hudson Bay and Great Bear Lake, past the Yukon and far out over the Bering Sea.”

Fictionaut: I, TOO, DREAM....

“Drawn up to the Dragon on steel tables were a Geiger counter, a radiation graph that drew a red line on rolling paper, and a neutron scaler that measured radiation with a bank of six red lights.”

Stallion Gate

“Jack turned from Costas and pointed at the screen, which showed an isometric computer simulation of the DSRV against the iceberg, with a dotted red line running up at a 45-degree angle from the DSRV and then levelling to a horizontal line that ended at a dark mass near the centre of the berg.”

Crusader Gold

“It therefore announced that no recommendations would be considered except those having a red line under the as - pirant's name.”

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