Thus time would be gained for loosening the compact phalanxof the Opposition, and at the same time getting it more deeply implicated in a compromising actual acceptance of the new order of business, in its form as well as its spirit.
Most of the Germans took this view, which many French Bishops readily acceded to, when they observed that the Hungarian phalanx had been broken up.
Each captain was followed by a Nubian slave, bearing in a sacred vase the offering of his own phalanx of soldiers.
At this gate stood a phalanx of dark Libyan soldiers, who form, everywhere, the guards of the gates, being noted both for faithfulness and for their gigantic size.
Each phalanx thus marched under and knew its peculiar emblem, following its lead in the column of advance on the march, and rallying around it in the midst of battle.
Meanwhile others collect ingredients for ammunition, and, when morning dawns, they have a number of weapons ready for use, which they cunningly conceal in the centre of their fourfold phalanx as they advance.
A moment later the Greek phalanx advances, urged on by Minerva, while the Trojans, equally inspired by Mars, rush to meet them with similar fury.
He also placed the choicest of his armed chariots in the front of his own phalanx over against the Grecian troops, that a violent charge with these might cut open their ranks before they closed with them.
But the Epirots exulting in the victory of their king, and admiring his courage, forced through and cut in pieces the phalanx of the Macedonians, and pursuing those that fled, killed many, and took five thousand prisoners.
For they thought no phalanx of infantry could be solid enough to sustain such a shock, but that they must necessarily be broken and shattered all to pieces upon the onset of so immense a force of cavalry.
While the horse were thus dangerously engaged, the Macedonian phalanx passed the river, and the foot on each side advanced to fight.
The flat tendon passes over the medial surface of the trochlea for digit II and attaches to the medial surface of the proximal end of the first phalanx of digit II; the tendon is fused with the articular capsule.
On digit III the lateralmost tendon bifurcates, with one branch attaching to the ungual phalanx and the other to the proximal end of the third phalanx; the medial tendon attaches to the proximal end of the second phalanx.
The flat tendon passes over the trochlea for digit III and attaches to the dorsal surface of the proximal end of the first phalanx of digit III.
The tendons are distinct on the first phalanx of each digit, but are often poorly defined farther distally.
The tendon extends onto the ventral surface of digit II and attaches by its edges to the ventromedial and ventrolateral surfaces of the proximal part of the first phalanx (the lateral edge extending farthest distally); the tendons of Mm.
The earth shook as the great phalanxmoved on faster and passed without checking over the white-clad group, blotting them out of all semblance to humanity.
And as though the white flag were a magnet to him, he moved unerringly towards it, the immense, earth-shaking phalanx following him.
After months of debate, it was finally passed; not only placing the Phalanx soldiers on a footing with all other troops, but made free, the mothers, wives and children of the noble black troops.
The 6th Phalanx Cavalry was attached to the 3rd brigade, which Colonel Jas.
Important services were rendered by the Phalanx in the West.
The fight of the Phalanx for equal pay and allowance with the white troops, was a long one.
Away to the left, the huzzas of Colonel Doubleday's Phalanx brigade (2nd) were heard.
Thus on the very edge of the battle, nay, in the battle, the Phalanx band poured out in heroic measures 'The Star Spangled Banner.
They are men of September (Septembriseurs), wretches stained with blood, ever conspiring in solid phalanx against every successive government.
These were the crying grievances which united in a solid phalanx both thinkers and practical men, and thereby gave an immense impetus to the levelling doctrines of Rousseau.
If this last maneuver is successfully accomplished, the strategos will compliment the drill sergeants; for it is notoriously difficult to turn a ponderous phalanx around and yet make it keep good order.
The whole phalanx starts forward like one man, and the enemy seem springing to meet it.
The whole army ahs in fact done so, and likewise the whole phalanx of the enemy.
By this time the original phalanx formations, so orderly, and beautiful, have become utterly shattered.
After numberless observations, I have thus far met with nine principal varieties of curvature according to which the tactile furrows are disposed upon the inner surface of the last phalanx of the fingers.
Our attention is next engaged by the wonderful arrangement and curving of the minute furrows connected with the organ of touch[4] on the inner surfaces of the hand and foot, especially on the last phalanx of each finger.
Lucius Albinus, a man of consular rank, was ordered to lead on the second legion against the phalanx of the Leucaspides, which formed the centre of the enemy's line.
Behind him were the targeteers, and his front faced the shielded phalanx of Chalcaspides.
Next came a band of the Macedonians themselves, which they called the phalanx of the Leucaspides.
This phalanx was placed next to the other on the right wing.
A regiment arranged in phalanx had a front rank of about sixty-four men as in the great battle in 418 B.
But no such pledge could have been given without exasperating the King and the privileged phalanx at St. Stephen's Green.
To effect this the navicular is closely and firmly attached to the third phalanx by an interosseous ligament.
The lower portion of the secondphalanx or os coronæ; the third phalanx, os pedis, or coffin bone; and the navicular or shuttle bone.
The action of this muscle is to extend the third phalanx on the second, the second on the first, and the first on the metacarpus.
Running obliquely downwards and backwards from their point of attachment to the first phalanx they curve round the lower part of the side of the second phalanx and end on the extremities and posterior surface of the navicular bone.
The two bones, as one, are then connected to the second phalanx by four lateral ligaments, an anterior and a posterior on each side.
It is an imperfect hinge-joint, permitting of extension and flexion, allowing the first phalanx to pivot on the second, and admitting of the performance of slight lateral movements.
Before its attachment to the os pedis it receives on each side of the middle of the first phalanx reinforcement in the shape of a strong band descending obliquely over the fetlock from the suspensory ligament.
It is situated obliquely in the digit, running from above downwards and from behind to before, and articulating superiorly with the first phalanx or os suffraginis, and inferiorly with the third phalanx and the navicular bone.
The lower articulatory surface is formed by the third phalanx and the navicular bone combined.
A large one posteriorly running up behind the second phalanx to nearly adjoin the sesamoidean bursæ, and a small one, a prolongation of the synovial membrane between the antero-lateral and postero-lateral ligaments of the same side.
The business of the phalanxwas to keep the front of the foe engaged, while horsemen rode into the enemy's flanks.
Contrast the legion and the phalanxas to arrangement, armament, and method of fighting.
When this heavy phalanx was set in array, the weapons carried by the soldiers in the first five ranks presented a bristling thicket of lance-points, which no onset, however determined, could penetrate.
Such is the land which, viewed with the eyes of later epochs, seems a theatre of marvels; such the people whose fortune it was to step first, or among the first, from the ranks of barbarians into the phalanx of civilisation.
Their solid phalanxhas scattered the English like spray to right and left.
Now, when they had ascended on high, behold, there came after them a phalanx of terrible ones, like warriors returning from the spoil, bearing their prey.
Death fled at his sight, as he shall fly likewise at the sound of his voice, when the whole phalanx of the dead shall rise again.
Some success had in fact fallen to the German phalanx attack on the Verdun salient.
The rest of you will ram me into the center of that phalanx with everything of driving force that in you lies.
And in the penthouse itself, instead of the solidphalanx of opposition he had known would bar his way, there were only half a dozen mercenaries, who promptly turned tail and ran.
A solid phalanx of spearmen, with shields latticed and braced; close-set spears out-thrust and anchored.
So Hector hurled himself with fury against the solid phalanx of the Greeks, but spent his fury in vain on that hedge of iron, and could not break through it, for all his rage.
And the two armies met, with a crash which was echoed by all the caverns of Ida, and recoiled again, each solid phalanx reeling from that tremendous shock.
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