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At the end of the five-line typed letter is a drawing of a ram's head with the slogan Death to Islam!
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What he has done is take the original Gregorian melody and render it in English and put it on a five-line staff -- thereby bypassing the two most common reasons (or excuses) for not singing the propers at Mass.
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"A Mind of Winter" looks solid, with its firmly-packed six - or five-line stanzas, but it's mysteriously hard to pin down.
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With a simple five-line algorithm, he repeatedly changed one bit of a file at random and checked to see if the file crashed an application, automatically tweaking and testing again and again.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne particularly favoured, the Ballade, is the Ballade Supreme, with its 10-lined stanzas and five-line envoi.
Archive 2009-07-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Algernon Charles Swinburne particularly favoured, the Ballade, is the Ballade Supreme, with its 10-lined stanzas and five-line envoi.
Great Regulars: Its form, a variant of the French form Rus Bowden 2009
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We had five phone lines, and somewhat old-fashioned five-line phones.
My Life in Technology, Pt. 1 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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A five-line computer program is not very intelligent.
Blurring the Line 2007
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"Agee left a four- or five-line note for detectives after shooting and killing himself at his parents' home, according to Mack."
Another great line from foxnews.com Becca 2009
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We had five phone lines, and somewhat old-fashioned five-line phones.
Archive 2009-03-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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