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phalanx
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The phalanx is a rectangular mass military formation. Phalanx may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Stepping off the plane, the President faced a phalanx of cameras and reporters. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another group was loading kit into a phalanx of jeeps. ▪ But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily ...
Usage examples of phalanx.
That we do not err in ascribing this belief to Paul we might summon the whole body of the Fathers to testify in almost unbroken phalanx, from Polycarp to St.
Pflegerinnen von verschiedenem Lebensalter, die sich freiwillig und aus Trieb, wie bei Allem, was in der Phalanx geschieht, diesem Dienste widmen.
Gruppe in der Phalanx von Marly bei dem Wettbewerb den Preis davon trug.
Quadrille, welche bei den Zeremonien den Ehrenwagen besetzt und an den Fest- und Ehrentagen der Phalanx die Honneurs macht.
Ist die ganze Erde einmal mit Phalanxen bedeckt, so wird sich auch die Nothwendigkeit einer allgemeinen Eintheilung im Reiche verschiedener Grade ergeben, die, wie Alles bei ihm, geometrisch abgemessen sind.
That valiant chieftain came fearlessly on at the head of a phalanx of oyster-fed Pavonians and a corps de reserve of the Van Arsdales and Van Bummels, who had remained behind to digest the enormous dinner they had eaten.
In the meantime, the thousands of fleeing soldiers stayed ahead of the phalanxes, sweeping around the barrows, leaving booty behind as they went.
It was a huge marble cube, topped with a statue of a Spartan hoplite, the base engraved with the story of the mighty battle at Plataea, where the invading Persian army had been crushed by the power of the Spartan phalanx.
A steel phalanx of guards closed about Kirin and the doctor and guided them into the frowning bastion of a massive gate.
Die Habsucht, eines der schlimmsten Laster in der Zivilisation, wird also auch in der Phalanx zur Tugend.
Hot on their trail were gargoyle-faced liches in unhemmed robes, and behind them roared a phalanx of honking blue Volvos.
Schmuck und das Ganze des Luxus in der Phalanx ist in der Harmonie nicht weniger werthvoll.
Lalyahe shrieked orders for counterattack, but the eunuchs and priestesses only parted ranks before the tight phalanx of knife-and-club-armed raiding party.
In the right index finger a completely sclerosed ring passed around the middle phalanx.
Phalanx in vollem Gange sei, auf mindestens zehn Gerichte zum Mittagtisch rechnen.