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Sentences ending with ranks

It made short work of the experimenter--and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. [5]
Is it all union and harmony in your ranks? [7]
He could venture to do this; he knew the Ephebi--there was no traitor in their ranks. [10]
They were on the southern bank of a wide valley, flanked by deep hills looking wise as grey-headed youth, a legion of close comrades, showing no gap in their ranks. [11]
At first Kutuzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the ranks. [2]
I was made so merely because there had to be some one so placed,--I being in nowise preferable to any other one of twenty-five, perhaps a hundred, we have in the Republican ranks. [7]
They flung the sling about my neck, and the next day, when the little army drew up for parade among the stumps, there I was at the end of the line, and prouder than any man in the ranks. [9]
I believe I should have fallen but for Tom, who reached out from the ranks. [9]
He is not permitted to rise from the ranks. [5]
While he and McCann and Tom were fishing it out, Colonel Clark himself appeared, quelled the mutiny that Harrod had on his hands, and bade the men sternly to get into ranks. [9]

Short sentences using ranks

There are ranks, here. [5]
Dress your ranks! [2]

Sentences containing ranks two or more times

There they were, ranks on ranks, silent in stone, when the last of the long twilight illumined them; and there in the same impressive patience they waited the golden day. [4]
Some say the cannonade made our front ranks think retreat was being cut off by the English, some say the rear ranks got the idea that Joan was killed. [5]
After this from amid the ranks of infantry to the right of the battery came the sound of a drum and shouts of command, and from the battery one saw how those ranks of infantry moved forward. [2]

More example sentences with the word ranks in them

Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
The corn, not yet tasseled, stood in green flexible ranks, moved by the early breeze. [4]
All ranks are wonderfully equalized under the fire of a masked battery. [6]
We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives every able-bodied man he can reach into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into the slaughter-pen. [7]
I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long are better entitled and better qualified to hold. [7]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
And flourishing his whip he rode off at a gallop for the first time during the whole campaign, and left the broken ranks of the soldiers laughing joyfully and shouting "Hurrah! [2]
But, no matter what might happen, the upas-tree whence emanated all these tortures, anxieties, and vexations, must be rooted out--stricken from the ranks of the living. [10]
In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
After the ranks were broken, Major Sherman and the Judge went to talk to Captain Lyon and the Union Leader, who was now a Colonel of one of the Volunteer regiments. [9]
The day I went out, the Champs Elysees, on both sides, its whole length, was crowded with people, rows and ranks of them sitting in chairs and on benches. [4]
An hour later we were awakened by a great turmoil, and springing out of bed we picked our way nimbly among the ranks of snoring teamsters on the floor and got to the front windows of the long room. [5]
So speedily do we put the dead away and come back to our place in the ranks to march in the pilgrimage of life again. [5]
We cheered until we cried when we saw their ranks of gray, with the gold buttons and the gold braid and the gold stars. [9]
I stumbled my way in the dark among the ranks of canvas scenery, and stood on the stage. [5]
In his own way he found out that the man had been a soldier in the ranks, and that he had served in India. [11]
Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch. [2]
The elder Herr von Nordwyk agreed with him, exclaiming: "With all due respect to your dignity, Herr Peter, your three companions in office belong to the ranks of bad friends, who would willingly be exchanged for open enemies. [10]
Let us be very generous, then, in our judgment of those who leave the front ranks of thought for the company of the meek non-combatants who follow with the baggage and provisions. [6]
This was the very fulness of the year, the earth giving out the sweetness of her maturity, the corn in martial ranks, with golden plumes nodding. [9]
The torch-bearers who usually headed the procession this time were obliged to close its ranks, for the storm raging from the northeast would have blown the smoke into the people's faces. [10]
Adam stood with upraised hammer beside the front ranks of the Walloons! [10]
The officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, and moved along the ranks shouting. [2]
They were our Uhlans who with disordered ranks were returning from the attack. [2]
A distracted father tries to break through the ranks and rescue his son. [9]
Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command. [2]
I got Bowers to go, by agreeing to exchange ranks with him for the time being, and go along and stand the watch with him as his subordinate. [5]
It was easy to do--in a country of ranks and castes. [5]
There is reason to believe that many who are now upon the pension rolls and in receipt of the bounty of the government are in the ranks of the insurgent army or giving them aid and comfort. [7]
Cambyses was riding through the ranks, encouraging his troops by words and looks. [10]
We wander on through the huge and massive gates of entrance, between the ranks of sacred animals. [10]
She had seen thousands of youths march in, and there they stood in close ranks in the arena below her. [10]
A matter like this would rank merely as an error with you and me; it ranks as a crime with the directors of steamship companies. [5]
But scarce could they have reached the street and we have broken ranks, when we saw them coming back again, the priest leading them as before. [9]
The awe which these reflections inspired was attested by the impressive silence and the ranks of staring eyes. [5]
Cambyses glanced over their ranks, and his face brightened on seeing that Bartja was not there. [10]
Any information from their ranks to him was regarded as treachery; and, besides, his stay in Tennis could be but brief, as the King, on account of the impending war, had summoned him back to the capital. [10]
I could feel the stern malice in our ranks, as we stood there and took, without returning a shot, that damnable fire. [11]
He spoke of the smell of the sea, of the rollicking sailors who surged through the narrow street to embark on his Majesty's men-of-war, and of the King's white soldiers in ranks of four going to foreign lands. [9]
He soon overtook the rear ranks, passed on in advance of the others, and at last reached their leader's side and, calling his uncle by name, gave his own. [10]
Kutuzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers. [2]
A bridge-builder from the ranks, and his wife, who was not of Gallic blood, had taken his place. [10]
Bagration rode round the ranks that had marched past him and dismounted. [2]
Psamtik drove through the ranks of his army, giving encouraging and friendly words to all the men. [10]
As soon as the prefect had disappeared within the building, the praetorian ranks fell out again. [10]
Several maniples of the praetorians and of the Macedonian phalanx were already drawn up in compact ranks, to relieve guard at the gate of the imperial residence, and stand at Caesar's orders. [10]
Sometimes I turned the lights low: this gave perspective, you see; and the imagination could play; always, the dim receding ranks of the dead inspired one with weird and fascinating fancies. [5]
The ranks of the infantry disappeared amid the smoke but their long-drawn shout and rapid musketry firing could still be heard. [2]
Idling members of the House flocked to their seats, nervous gentlemen sprang to their feet, pages flew hither and thither, life and animation were visible everywhere, all the long ranks of faces in the building were kindled. [5]
Napoleon rode up the high ground at Semenovsk, and through the smoke saw ranks of men in uniforms of a color unfamiliar to him. [2]
This ranks among the finest of Emerson's poems. [6]
He is not the clerk, he is not the landlord; he ranks above the clerk, and represents the landlord, who is seldom seen. [5]
The hillsmen clove the besiegers through like a piece of pasteboard, and turning, rode back again through the broken ranks, their battle-call ringing high above the clash of steel. [11]
Don't you know that you could go out and gather together a thousand clerks and mechanics and put them on that deck and ask them to die for duty's sake, and not two dozen of them would stay in the ranks to the end? [5]
But I suspected that the ranks were thin now, and the steamboatmen no longer an aristocracy. [5]
In the skirmish that followed, Iberville and Perrot pressed with a handful of men forward very close to the ranks of the English. [11]
See the prisoners taking their places between the ranks, some smiling, as if to say all is not over yet; some with heads hung down, in sulky shame. [9]
He would willingly take the last place in the ranks, if such was the command of Moses. [10]
Could he meditate such a thing, for instance, as the renunciation of the earldom and its wealth and its glories, and voluntary retirement to the ranks of the commonalty, there to rise by his own merit or remain forever poor and obscure? [5]
To hear the students jubilate, one would suppose that the question of whether Tell shot the apple or didn't was an important matter; whereas it ranks in importance exactly with the question of whether Washington chopped down the cherry-tree or didn't. [5]
There was a stir in the ranks of the soldiers and it was evident that they were all hurrying--not as men hurry to do something they understand, but as people hurry to finish a necessary but unpleasant and incomprehensible task. [2]
There was a stir among the throng of officers and in the ranks of the soldiers, who moved that they might hear better what he was going to say. [2]
A German private steps from the ranks, forgetful of discipline, and points at the man, who is cursing the captain's name. [9]
And there are some, even in the ranks of this Militia--who will fight for the Union. [9]
Still, the great shield had turned many a spear, and many an arrow had glanced harmless from the brazen armor and helmets; the men that had escaped pressed onwards, while fresh ranks of soldiers made their way in, over the bodies of the fallen. [10]
Among them was seen many a grave, deeply-troubled face; for these men, who filled its ranks by their own choice, all loved William of Orange: his sorrow hurt them--and their country's distress pierced their hearts. [10]
And yet she seemed to have risen through instinct to share the fire of his vision of religion revealed to the countless ranks of strugglers as the hidden motive-power of the world, the impetus of scientist, statesman, artist, and philanthropist! [9]
I would rather see you in the Whig ranks than a trimmer, for the Carvels have ever been partisans. [9]
In the diplomatic scale Washington still ranks below the Sublime Porte, but this anomaly is due to tradition, and does not represent England's real estimate of the status of the republic. [4]
Constantine, however, relentlessly repeated his order; and, when they still refused to obey, he turned his back on their ranks with a gesture of bitter contempt, and shouted his commands to the infantry posted by the colonnade behind which Gorgo was watching all these proceedings. [10]
Could you have remained in those ranks and gone down to your death in that unflinching way? [5]
All the front ranks, no telling how many acres deep, were horsemen--plumed knights in armor. [5]
She knew all ranks, and won them all, and made them her friends. [5]
There the narrow ranks of the wooden giants separated and moved onward in broader lines. [10]
The art whose province it is to heal and to save cannot protect its own ranks from the inroads of disease and the waste of the Destroyer. [3]
John was very proud of his office, and of his ability to keep the rear ranks closed up and ready to execute any maneuver when the captain "hollered," which he did continually. [4]
But suddenly the priest had stepped out from the ranks, faced his people, and was himself translating in a strong voice. [9]
I caused my piers to be firmly set up in ranks in the cellar, and upon them I laid six of my forty-foot ladders, side by side, and laid six more on top of them. [5]
But now the Persian ranks began to move. [10]
The funeral procession passed through the ranks of soldiers, who filled the street. [10]
If I can pass the medical examination, which it is possible I may, though I fear my constitution may be thought too weak, and if no obstacle impedes me, I think of marching in the ranks of the Oxbow Invincibles. [6]
Phanes, furious with pain and rage, led on his heavy-armed troops, indignant too at the brutal barbarity of their countrymen, and dashed into the ranks of those very soldiers, whose love he had tried to deserve during ten years of faithful leadership. [10]
An old, noncommissioned officer ran out of the ranks and taking him by the elbow dragged him to his company. [2]
With no sound of trumpet or drum, so as not to arouse the enemy, the foot-soldiers went forward in close order, the chariot-warriors, each in his light two-wheeled chariot drawn by two horses, formed their ranks, and the king placed himself at their head. [10]
The shapely figure of the fair-haired soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. [2]
Nay, the death of Philip, and Melissa's and Alexander's evil fortunes, placed them in the ranks of the foremost foes of tyranny. [10]
The larger number of its recruits came from the lower ranks of the people. [10]
Obedience to those of higher ranks in the Order. [2]
Here were ranks of guards in shining armor and with polished halberds; two sides of the hall were like flower-gardens for variety of color and the magnificence of the costumes; light streamed upon these masses of color from two hundred and fifty flambeaux. [5]
The succeeding ranks of "Greens" followed the example, and from the midst of a troop of young married men, members in the gymnasium of the society of the Dioscuri, one foolhardy spirit had the reckless temerity to blow a shrill, far-sounding whistle between his fingers. [10]
Our sympathies, however, must be with Honora, who has paid the price for heaven, and who discovers that by marriage she has merely joined the ranks of the Great Unattached. [9]
Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post. [2]
It would be much better, if testimonials must be, to give a man a barrel of flour or a keg of oysters, and let him eat himself at once back into the ranks of ordinary men. [4]
Early the next morning they should be examined, and, if they could clear themselves from the suspicion of belonging to the ranks of the conspirators, released. [10]
Life has no moment so sweet as that in which a young man believes himself called into the immortal ranks of the masters of literature. [5]
It was a medley of railroad travel, of committees provided with badges--and cigars, of open carriages slowly drawn between lines of bewildered citizens, of Lincoln clubs and other clubs marching in serried ranks, uniformed and helmeted, stalwarts carrying torches and banners. [9]
He only told me that Edds is in the Army of the Potomac, and that he fell out of the ranks during Burnside's mud march last winter. [7]
Scarcely a leading man in Virginia could be found, though numbers of the citizens joined the ranks of the guard when the arrest was made. [5]
Nothing loath, I made my way to the head of the column, where Bowman's company had broken ranks and stood in a ring up to their thighs in the grass. [9]
His face probably looked very terrible, for the officer said something in a whisper and four more Uhlans left the ranks and placed themselves on both sides of Pierre. [2]

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