Значения для термина "stood a line" отсутствуют.
1 In front of it stood a line of Blue Guards, headed by the Senestro.
2 He turned a page or two and out from the text there stood a line :
3 Close by the door stood a line of footmen, resplendent in their powdered wigs, red plush coats, and silver shoulder knots.
4 On a rising ground close to the camp stood a line of old women singing a medicine song to allay the tumult.
5 At the door of his office stood a line of grieving parents not unlike the ones I'd encountered at the Um al-Qura mosque.
6 At this last feverish moment the course was empty and closed by gray barriers, between the posts of which stood a line of policemen.
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