They were a mere conglomeration of semi-independent units, mostly composed of raw recruits under officers who themselves knew next to nothing.
There would have been no chance whatever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than the Southern was.
The German empire lost its unity, and became a conglomeration of three hundred independent sovereignties.
Emperor of that conglomeration of heterogeneous States called Germany.
His house, or rather conglomeration of huts, was certainly not less than a hundred yards in length.
The ancient faiths were too well established to be uprooted by the Moslem conquerors and the outcome is a strange conglomeration in which the ancestral superstitions frequently profit at the expense of the precepts of the Koran.
Into this materialist and political club, erected under the guise of Freemasonry, entered Annie Besant with all the strange conglomeration of Eastern doctrines now known as Theosophy.
They are often, in fact, only a conglomeration of small houses dedicated to the purposes of trade, manufacture, or what not.
Abundance is typified by a seated woman, with the conventional overflowing cornucopias beside her, as well as a conglomeration of details suggestive of the riches of land and sea.
Gallery 119 includes a surprising conglomeration of paintings and drawings in all mediums, wherein the extremists have their say.
The church is a flint structure,--a conglomerationof many styles.
It is hardly necessary to say that this conglomeration of peoples is common to all the home counties, though mostly so, as I venture to think, in Hertfordshire and Surrey.
I went into the out-house to look about me; and the very same lobsters, crabs, and crawfish possessed by the same desire to pinch the world in general, appeared to be in the same state of conglomeration in the same old corner.
On my return thirty minutes later to look at it I found that the amount of material collected had doubled, but the nest was still without any definite form; it was a mere conglomeration of rubbish.
It consists of a conglomeration of twigs, forming a platform of which the diameter measures about a foot.
The ravine itself was a steep descent leading up to the mountains; and its bottom, or bed, was covered with a conglomeration of large rounded boulders, that looked as if they had been rolled into this shape by water.
Scraping the watery conglomerationinto a tobacco can, he threw on his coat and ran for the shaft.
High above the general conglomeration of voices could be heard the cries of the instigator of activities, Sam Herbenfelder, bemoaning the loss of his diamond, ninety per cent.
The conglomeration of tatters, dignified by the name of apparel, was gone, and the very travelling outfit was far superior to our former holiday apparel.
According to Asinius Quadratus their name indicates that they were a conglomeration of various tribes.
The term Afghan really applies to one section only of the mixed conglomeration of nationalities which forms the people of Afghanistan, but this is the dominant section known as the Durani.
I held it up over my eyes for some time, to see if it was perfectly straight, and he remarked that if all Northerners took the Oath as freely as I did, they must be a water-proof conglomeration of patriots.
It was not a level surface that was thus covered with sand, but a conglomeration of hillocks and ridges, blending into each other and forming a labyrinth, that seemed to stretch interminably on all sides--except towards the sea itself.
He saw it for a moment, encircled by its walls of white clay, and a few rudely-constructed mosques rising clumsily above that conglomeration of houses that look like playing-dice, which form most Arab towns.
After our experience with the frozen gravel at Klondike, it almost seemed like child's play to dig out the comparatively loose sand conglomeration which formed the topmost layer in the line of our descent.
Perhaps more easily; for it goes without saying that such a conglomerationof promiscuous chances could not possibly be thought of as a world of God.
God's world could not possibly be a conglomeration of chances; it must be orderly, and the fact that it is so proves its dependence.
Some of the modern twaddle about health is a conglomeration of the poorest kind of trash, expressing and inculcating more errors and whims than it does common sense.
One leaf of poetry was pressed flat against another leaf, one burnished letter laid smooth against another in a density of meaning, a conglomeration of loveliness.
It sets its teeth and is a very stern, silent, ugly conglomeration of men.
He was engaged in it because a conglomeration of irresistible forces had driven him into the mêlée.
My brain is a conglomeration of aggressive versatility.
