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Meanings of foremost ranks in English

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Usage of foremost ranks in English
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The foremost ranks, moving in directly behind the leaders, had adopted their pace.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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The volley of the English laid low the foremost ranks of the French guards.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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Ibrahim's lineage, the Awlad Ali, were in the foremost ranks.
Acts of faith
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The men in the foremost ranks craned their necks.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
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One bold mountaineer thrust forward to the foremost ranks, though without rising from his knees.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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There is nothing to show that he is in the very foremost ranks of the service.
The Wife, and Other Stories
7
He is looking forward to a place in the foremost ranks of the nation's ball players.
Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
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It fell upon the foremost ranks of women, it fell upon the polished statue of the Osiris.
The World's Desire
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I do not wish them back again, I would sooner fight in the foremost ranks of Time.
The Open Air
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Prince Louis watched the assailants, whose foremost ranks were already climbing the hill on the opposite side.
How Women Love (Soul Analysis)
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But Shorty-inthe foremost ranks stood Shorty!
I Married a Ranger
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For Chaikin was in the foremost ranks of a trade in which I was one of the ruck.
The Rise of David Levinsky
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The day was won; but Epaminondas, who fought in the foremost ranks, fell pierced with a mortal wound.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.
The Iliad
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Another year-nay ,perchanceanother month-andhe might have stood acknowledged sublime in the foremost ranks of his age.
"My Novel" — Volume 06
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The foremost ranks presently spied Cosmo Versál, watching them from an open gangway sixty feet above their heads.
The Second Deluge
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