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along the lines of

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along the lines of something
similar in type. I can't remember exactly what words he used but it was something along those lines. I was thinking of doing a dinner party along the lines of that meal I cooked for Annie and Dave.
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along the lines of something
similar to something. I think my point is very much along the lines of things that I heard Steve and Ana suggest.
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Here, along the lines of multitudinous houses, up one street and down another, he wondered which of them might be occupied by her.
Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
The gardener seemed even to have been conversing, but at sight of the detectives he planted his spade sullenly in a bed and, saying something about his breakfast, shifted along the lines of cabbages and shut himself in the kitchen.
 
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