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"ref": "1894, Dabney H. Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, section 17",
"text": "\"You say he is in Armstrong's rear, do you? Damn him! That's just where I have been trying to get him all day, and I'll be in his rear directly. Face your battle lines about! Armstrong, push your skirmishers forward -- crowd 'em both ways! I'm going to Starnes. You'll hear from me in about five minutes!\"",
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"ref": "1942 February 23, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat",
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"text": "1965, Hugh M. Cole, The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, Chapter XX: The XII Corps Attacks the Southern Shoulder,\nThe German intelligence staffs again agreed that there was no immediate threat to the Seventh Army, and that the westward advance by the Fifth Panzer Army would necessarily force the Americans to strengthen the battle line there and prohibit any thrust into the deep southern flank."
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"The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle."
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"(military, army) The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle."
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"ref": "1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield",
"text": "There's battle lines being drawn / And nobody's right if everybody's wrong",
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"ref": "2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC",
"text": "Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.",
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"ref": "2018, Ichiro Sakaki, Sasha McGlynn, Outbreak Company, volume 4",
"text": "Especially that absolute territory peeking out from between her socks and skirt, like a battle line between innocence and temptation...",
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},
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}
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"(military, army) The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle."
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"ref": "2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC",
"text": "Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.",
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},
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