The Collaborative International Dictionary
To file with
File \File\, v. i. [Cf. F. filer.] (Mil.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
To file with, to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.
My endeavors
Have ever come too short of my desires,
Yet filed with my abilities.
--Shak.