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  • The figure is sharp and harsh, the drapery, evidently studied from sculpture, is "liney," and the archæology is often more scientific than artistic.

    A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

  • I did all I could as a lowly liney, I stood my ground to the management, lost out a LOT because of my refusal to toe the line on issues I felt strongly about, and ultimately jacked it in.

    Police Investigate MP’s Expenses « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The ones by North America seem very ley liney to me.

    Tagruato - Drilling Is Their Business, And Business Is Good Dennis 2007

  • But I was really kind of play like base-liney type low-end stuff.

    Not Hummable: a Band Called Battles 2007

  • Report this comment to the moderators liney Writes:

    Keyes’s Daughter 2004

  • Inst Techs no longer work on airfields or cover any of the old liney role, they are 2 trade changes away from the original liney boys who are mostly hitting 60 these days!

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • This team, when it's being functional, is all fun and exciting and spunky and four-liney and good at making Clemmer's proclivity for being shitty beside the point.

    Interchangeable Parts 2009

  • Guess what the first note is on the bass staff ... liney .... thingee.

    Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia 2009

  • If they've offered you more technical positions but you want to take the liney position because your dad was one then go for it.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Besides rock posters, there are some very fine jazz-inspired images which, without the lettering or typography, make good artworks on their own, among them Avi Farin's liney Dizzy Gillespie (1979), and Seymour Chwast's Rouault-like

    PopMatters 2009

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