List of synonyms from "close out" to synonyms from "closure"
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Definition of the day : « close ranks »
- verb join fortunes with
- For Will was not one to step safely out of the close ranks of men, but he was always a mighty faithful worker wherever he was put.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
- It is thought of as a sort of mighty army, marching down the road, in close ranks, with fixed bayonets.
- Extract from : « Quiet Talks with World Winners » by S. D. Gordon
- Their close ranks were mowed down by the Knights, as grass falls before the scythe of the husbandman.
- Extract from : « The Story of Malta » by Maturin M. Ballou
- The wolves that were advancing in close ranks recoiled, and gathered together again a hundred paces from the inclosure.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
- The sun was scarcely an hour high when some six hundred Sioux were espied riding in close ranks along the bank of the Platte.
- Extract from : « Last of the Great Scouts » by Helen Cody Wetmore
- The armed men began to gather in close ranks around the scene of death, and the crowd increased.
- Extract from : « The Mosstrooper » by Robert Scott Fittis
- She had seen thousands of youths march in, and there they stood in close ranks in the arena below her.
- Extract from : « A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete » by Georg Ebers
- Close ranks, while suitable for marching, do not lend themselves to firing at the halt.
- Extract from : « Battle Studies » by Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
- These men must be very resolute, as their close ranks do not permit them to escape by about facing.
- Extract from : « Battle Studies » by Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
- When they rushed the British fire ceased, and in the lull the order was given to close ranks and meet them with the bayonet.
- Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling