Sentence example with the word 'phalanxes'

phalanxes

Last update: September 23, 2015


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A similar judgment may be passed upon those Paulician, Albigensian, Paterine and Epicurean dissenters from the Catholic creed who opposed the phalanxes of orthodoxy with frail imaginative weapons, and alarmed established orders in the state by the audacity of their communistic opinions.   [Please select]

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Vivian stood on the platform, beside a tall oak-stand and a water-pitcher, gazing out over phalanxes of women.   [Please select]

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At the theatre and opera people waited in solid phalanxes to see her pass.   [Please select]

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Every day saw new phalanxes of splendid primeval trees fallen, or half suspended in their rigging of lianas.   [Please select]

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Thirty-four phalanxes were organized in a short time, most of them with an incredible lack of foresight.   [Please select]

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The Romans, from their elevated position, hurl the _pilum_,[189] break the enemy’s phalanxes, and rush upon them sword in hand.   [Please select]

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Under Alexander, the grand phalanx consisted of 16,384 men, made up of four divisions and smaller phalanxes.   [Please select]

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But the Germans, according to their custom, to resist an attack of this kind, form rapidly in phalanxes of three or four hundred men,[229] and cover their bare heads with their bucklers.   [Please select]

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Harriet's soft nature gave way before the advance of the serried phalanxes of knowledge: learning passed her by; and she like the many "passed through school."   [Please select]

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