On either side of them the close-ranked trees marched steadily onwards. '

He was travelling along a stretch of road that tunneled through high slopes thick with close-ranked pines.

Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees.

A close-ranked formation of Imperial horsemen, perhaps fifty in number, was advancing toward them from the eastern perimeter of the plain.

Upon the slopes of low hills were thick groves of close-ranked aspen, their trunks a gray screen that permitted no penetration.

These soldiers fought in close-ranked rectangular or square formations, of which the smallest tactical unit was the 256 men strong syntagma or speira.

Ice axes stood menacingly in close-ranked battalions among small armies of harnesses, ropes, thermarests, neoprene water bottles and first aid kits.

At first the clients lounged on white leather-upholstered chairs and sofas, and later, as the Balenciaga cult grew, sat on close-ranked Napoleon III gilt chairs.

Wishing for light as well as water, Silk climbed the opposite bank, and after a hundred strides saw through the bare, close-ranked trees the welcome gleam of skylight on dressed and polished stone.

Of those I esteem the most, I count those who close-ranked fame with courage and dared ever to risk their flesh and lives in service of the realm and ideals combined in gentle Albion.

At 4:30 p.m., in the waning light of the short winter afternoon, a sheet of flame is spotted racing across the water toward the jetties, and before anyone can raise an alarm the fire is licking around the close-ranked boats.

Simple, and effective against an enemy who didn't take the right countermeasures, the hammer would concentrate the attacking force's assault against a relatively small but critical area, allowing close-ranked successive waves of warships to sweep through the center of the defending force and batter it repeatedly with no chance for the defenders to recover between waves.

He used to fringe the river all the way; his close-ranked merchandise stretched from the one city to the other, along the banks, and he sold uncountable cords of it every year for cash on the nail; but all the scattering boats that are left burn coal now, and the seldomest spectacle on the Mississippi to-day is a wood-pile.