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Examples
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When the fall work is all over in the line-camp they'll be found,
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Dick, when he went to the line-camp, Ford had been fighting the desire to saddle a horse and ride to town; and the thing that lured him townward confronted him now in that gray stone jug with the brown neck and handle.
The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905
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Walt says he come back from the line-camp with his overcoat rolled up and tied behind the saddle -- and it wasn't what you could call a hot night, either.
The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905
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He was always "line-riding," or hunting stray stock -- horses, usually -- or striking across to some line-camp of the Sawtooth, on business which he was perfectly willing to state.
The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905
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The Sawtooth had shipped the sheep within a month and turned the ranch into another line-camp.
The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905
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Certainly not to a far line-camp where a young man lived alone, just to ask him why some one else answered his telephone for him.
Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905
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But Johnny had been schooled to the monotony of a range line-camp, and if he could have ridden over the country while he waited, he would not have minded being left idle most of the time.
The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905
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The Sawtooth had shipped the sheep within a month and turned the ranch into another line-camp.
Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905
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He was always "line-riding," or hunting stray stock -- horses, usually -- or striking across to some line-camp of the Sawtooth on business which he was perfectly willing to state.
Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905
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