hand a line

It was dusk on the third-to-last day of a terrible 2020, and beneath a porch of four socially distanced friends laughing with beers in hand, a line of people stood in the cold in Northeast Washington waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.

Let me have some details of what men you have recruited and what services you have rendered, briefly, not formally; and I'll say, 'If our master would vouchsafe in his own hand a line, a word even, to the Count of Amalfi, it would be a recompense he would not exchange for millions.'

On the starboard hand a line of yellow sandbank is drying in the sun, and the passage has now narrowed down to a width of fifty yards; in twenty minutes every inch of water, from the rocky headland on the south side of the entrance to where the river makes a sharp turn northward, half a mile away, is packed with a living, moving mass.

Hasjelti, with his right hand, then drew a line on the girl's left shoulder, and with his left hand a line on the girl's right shoulder, the corn being pressed to the shoulders in the manner described.

Then he gestured a line with his hand—a line between, himself and her.