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  • They have come to know the strength of numbers, solidly phalanxed and driving onward with singleness of purpose.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  •   Though now one phalanxed host should meet the foe,

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • In the end the twain routed the phalanxed relations.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • The whole while the procession made its way through the streets, they were carefully monitored and phalanxed the whole way by riot police.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Joseph Lieberman to Give Keynote Address - August 16, 2000 2000

  • This is the secret of Shakespeare's strength in 'Hamlet,' as it is the purpose of Burke's in such speeches as that at the trial of Hastings, to compel immediate comprehension by crowding his meaning on the hearer in phalanxed sentences, moving to the attack, rank on rank, so that the first are at once supported and compelled by those which succeed them.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • The tables were crowded, smoke hung in low-banked clouds below the flaring oil lamps, and the glittering bar at the far end of the room was phalanxed three deep by a jostling, good-natured throng.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • They have come to know the strength of numbers, solidly phalanxed and driving onward with singleness of purpose.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 1910

  • They have come to know the strength of numbers, solidly phalanxed and driving onward with singleness of purpose.

    Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London 1896

  • If the public suffered from these phalanxed industries while they ran smoothly, it endured peculiar evils from the periodical conflicts between the capital and the labor engaged in them.

    History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

  • This uncertain heap of shriekers, mutineers, were they once drilled and inured, will become a phalanxed mass of Fighters; and wheel and whirl, to order, swiftly like the wind or the whirlwind: tanned mustachio-figures; often barefoot, even bare-backed; with sinews of iron; who require only bread and gunpowder: very Sons of Fire, the adroitest, hastiest, hottest ever seen perhaps since Attila's time.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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