After them came the foot and horse in solid squares, and always with more to follow.

He had an immense quantity of ordnance: the batteries in the open country were supported by masses of infantry in solid squares.

The "Buckner Hospital" was expected to accommodate nearly one thousand sick and wounded, and embraced every building for two solid squares.

The rest of the army was behind them on the moor with gunshot, standing in eleven solid squares; six banners waved proudly over them.

Schooled in such surprises, they began to form small solid squares, and against these barriers the impact of the light horsemen beat in vain.

They were accustomed to great solid squares of troops wheeling in one way, steadily, deliberately, all together, by one impulse and as one man.