Meanings of lay on the line in inglês

Two unfortunate small villages which lay on the line of march were surrounded and the inhabitants massacred.

Stafford county would be full of Nicholson's militia, and Lawrence's strong hand lay on the line of the Borders.

Already there were a few wounded on both sides, perhaps a few dead among the passengers who lay on the line.

Once the Organization's terms and conditions had been laid on the line, that was postponed indefinitely.

It is the state highway, laid on the line of a Roman road, from Albert to Bapaume.

"Ordinarily I'd say 'no comment', but we're laying on the line... well..."

He says that your cousin the duke spoke of the death of the Tudors and a curse laid on the line.'

[Footnote: Montjoy was the name given during the Middle Ages to any little rise of ground which lay on the line between two territorial divisions.