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[Edit] This is the main bit, took a second to find because was looking for "line as" not "line is"..
The Line Is a Functional Entity.
In addition to my findings about ‘‘languages’’ and hands, there are two other points that I’d like to touch on very briefly. Neither of these has, I think, been discussed by anyone else before. The first point is that the line is a functional entity in the manuscript on all those pages where the text is presented linearly. There are three things about the lines that make me believe the line itself is a functional unit. The frequency counts of the beginnings and endings of lines are markedly different from the counts of the same characters internally. There are, for instance, some characters that may not occur initially in a line. There are others whose occurrence as the initial syllable of the first ‘‘word’’ of a line is about one hundredth of the expected. This by the way, is based on large samples (the biggest sample is 15,000 ‘‘words’’), so that I consider the sample to be big enough so that these statistics are significant. The ends of the lines contain what seem to be, in many cases, meaningless symbols: little groups of letters which don’t occur anywhere else, and just look as if they were added to fill out the line to the margin. Although this isn’t always true, it frequently happens. There is, for instance, one symbol that, while it does occur elsewhere, occurs at the end of the last ‘‘words’’ of lines 85% of the time. One more fact: I have three computer runs of the herbal material and of the biological material. In all of that, which is almost 25,000 ‘‘words,’’ there is not one single case of a repeat going over the end of a line to the beginning of the next; not one. This is a large sample, too. These three findings have convinced me that the line is a functional entity, (what its function is, I don’t know), and that the occurrence of certain symbols is governed by the position of a ‘‘word’’ in a line. For instance, there is a particular symbol which almost never occurs as the first letter of a ‘‘word’’ in a line except when it is followed by the letter that looks like ‘‘o.’’
- Point 4 is the "TLDR", but he refers to point 3 within 4 so I included also.
3. The effect of word-final symbols on the initial symbol of the following ‘word’ This ‘word-final effect’ first became evident in a study of the Biol. B index wherein it was noted that the final symbol of ‘words’ preceding ‘words’ with an initial ‘4O’ was restricted pretty largely to ‘9’; and that initial ‘S / Z’ was preceded much more frequently than expected by finals of the ‘M’ series and the ‘E’ series. Additionally, ‘words’ with initial ‘S / Z’ occur in line-initial position far less frequently than expected, which perhaps might be construed as being preceded by an ‘initial nil.’ This phenomenon occurs in other sections of the Manuscript, especially in those ‘written’ in Language B, but in no case with quite the same definity as in Biological B. Language A texts are fairly close to expected in this respect. I can think of no interpretation of this phenomenon, linguistic or otherwise. Inflexional endings would certainly not have this effect nor would any other grammatical feature that I know of if we assume that we are dealing with words. If, however, these word-appearing elements are something else, syllables, letters, even digits, restrictions of this sort might well occur.
4. The line as functional entity As mentioned in para. 3 above, ‘words’ with initial ‘S / Z’ are unexpectedly low in line initial position (on average about .1 of expected); other ‘words’ occur in this position far more frequently than expected, particularly ‘words’ with initial ‘8S,’ ‘9S’ etc., which have the appearance of ‘S’-initial ‘words’ suitably modified for line-initial use. Symbol groups at the ends of lines are frequently of a character unlike those appearing in the body of the text sometimes having the appearance of fillers. Further, in only one instance so far noted has a repeated sequence (of ‘words’) extended beyond the end of one line into the beginning of the next. All in all it is difficult not to assume that the line, on those pages on which the text has a linear arrangement, is a self-contained unit with a function yet to be discovered.
I don't think specific examples are given, but to show one of my own which I think shows what he is alluding to, at least in regards to "appearance of fillers" at the ends of lines.
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If we assume - not language. You see this sort of thing in some (later) ciphers such as Francis Bacons
"This decodes in groups of five as
baaab(S) baaba(T) aabaa(E) aabba(G) aaaaa(A) abbaa(N) abbab(O) aabba(G) baaaa® aaaaa(A) abbba(P) aabbb(H) babba(Y) bbaaa bbaab bbbbb
where the last three groups, being unintelligible, are assumed not to form part of the message."