Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line, real or imaginary, marking the boundary between apparent safety and danger, as the fire-lines at a conflagration, or the line or level on a river-bank above which the rising waters of a river in flood may overflow, or burst the banks.
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Examples
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He was moved to the danger-line himself by her grief.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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He calculated how much he would need to trim in, to sail close to the danger-line and still avoid disaster.
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One observer of beauty-giving effects has not unadvisedly called the waist-line "the danger-line."
What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley
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"Chawley" Hathaway looked unutterable things, and the little mouse-eyes looked back unutterable things, with that lingering, just-too-long-for-pardoning glance that a certain kind of men and women employ when they want to loiter near the danger-line and toy with vital things.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Slotman glanced at him; he saw that he was over-stepping the danger-line.
The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper
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Over half the food of the French is bread, so if the wheat shortage were near the danger-line, it might lead to a serious weakening of the marvellous courage of the French people.
Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover Florence Powdermaker 1930
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She was close against the danger-line, and every nerve in her being had long ago become part of Winn.
The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923
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But once beyond the danger-line her composure came back.
Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921
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Instead of systematically draining it they would, whenever it struck "the danger-line," gather all the gold they could get and send it on to Washington.
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It is perilously easy, for a beginner, to overstep the danger-line between a safe "bank" and a side-slip.
Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners Claude Grahame-White 1919
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