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Meanings of phalanxes in English

Russian
фалангиты
Portuguese
falange grega
Spanish
falangita
Catalan
falange
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Infantry formation.

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фалангиты
Usage of phalanxes in English
1
They came on, ridge on ridge, in regularly ordered, tumbling phalanxes.
Vane of the Timberlands
2
This man is quite old and smiling broadly at the phalanxes of guests.
The Hyperion Cantos
3
He marched in three lines: elephants, cavalry and light infantry, then heavily armed phalanxes.
Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
4
What that gentleman, and the associations, or some parts of their phalanxes, think proper.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
5
The Talian and Falaran flanking phalanxes were forming clean enough.
Return of the Crimson Guard
6
The Yes and No wings reckon they have solid phalanxes of support that are unshiftable.
The Irish Times
7
The flanking phalanxes moved forward as well, covering them.
Return of the Crimson Guard
8
Where before the Igigi had attacked in ones and threes, now they came in phalanxes.
The dog said bow-wow
9
Tobin shrugged and began lining the animals and people up in phalanxes across the painted harbor.
The Bone Doll's Twin
10
A battle consists in the charging together of two phalanxes of hoplites of about equal numbers.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
11
Cavalry units swept from the rear and cleared the rest of the phalanxes and hoplites out.
Book Two: Descent
12
The pictures show phalanxes of these men smiling as if they were glad to be captives.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
13
The heavily armored phalanxes were pulling back slowly, though the archers were in a running retreat.
Book Two: Descent
14
Jeep slid off the ring-thedistal and middle phalanxes came off with it, but did not disintegrate.
A nose for justice
15
The British riflemen fired into the flanks of the phalanxes as the Arabs moved for the weakest point.
The gun
16
Every day saw new phalanxes of splendid primeval trees fallen, or half suspended in their rigging of lianas.
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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Catalan
falange
Phalanxes through the time