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In serried ranks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : serried troops. From Dictionary.com.
Down all its length the stiff waves stood in serried rows, and its crevices and water-worn caverns were a-bellow with unseen strife. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 25] Reference
Hand-lettered in the kind of serried uppercase writing characteristic of folk artists and anthrax terrorists, it read, OUT OF SERVICE. From Wordnik.com. [Vroom at the Top] Reference
The corn-sheaves stretched in serried piles across it. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Far across it is a dark-blue serried line of mountains. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
And roll upon our serried lines like ocean's angry surge. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The dense, serried mass of infantry offers a splendid target. From Wordnik.com. [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference
Under them loud on the sands, the serried billows, advancing. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
And shot and shell through serried ranks a bloody pathway tore. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
In serried ranks the Blue and Gray -- and tears the lashes wet. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
See there! amidst the willow-boughs the serried bayonets gleam. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
And onward still, in serried ranks, the Southern soldiers come. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Then, staggered by the shot, he saw their serried columns reel. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
They stood there looking down between the serried lines of trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
I could see their beating wings in serried ranks of black V-shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Hesketh, casting his eyes over a serried rank, "of buying a bicycle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Their serried faces suddenly revealed to me my ignominious surrender. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
For their serried ranks are strong: thousands upon thousands throng. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
At the bottom of the cases, books stretched in serried files along the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
A man at the end of our serried line near the roadside has called the order to me. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Ausonian army issue forth, and crowd through the gates in streaming serried columns. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
No sound, whether of approval or disapproval, broke the stillness of the serried benches opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
Joy will raise up its head through the legions warring and all of the far-serried ranks of mad-love. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
It sprang to life along the serried edge of the Medicine Bow, a broadening band of blood-red light. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
In serried ranks, silent and still as at attention, the troops lined both sides of the upper and lower decks. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Four hundred planes, each armed with machine guns, dashed into the serried hosts, drumming out volleys of lead. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
In serried ranks the wheat stocks stretched, dwindling to mere specks, merging as they lost identity in distance. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
Lafayette's National Guard were approaching, and as the serried lines, advancing at the double, reached the Court of. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
She only felt that she "entertained" when she beheld serried ranks of guests stretching away from her on either hand. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
A serried phalanx covered the two men and the girl, hovering a few feet overhead, the long legs dangling to within arm's reach. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
With a column of spearmen on land the weight of the rearward ranks, formed in a serried phalanx, would force onward those in front. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The lines of the townspeople pressed closer and closer; they made a serried mass of blouses and caps, of shiny coats and bared heads. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
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