Rear rank

The serjeant then acquainted his lieutenant, who was the commanding officer, that they had picked up two fellows in that day's march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler), for that he was near six feet, well proportioned, and strongly limbed; and the other (meaning Jones) would do well enough for the rear rank.

The rear rank of each party advanced at a slower pace to sustain the defeated, and follow up the success of the victors of their party.

So they go on; Deputy, as a rear rank one, taking open order, and invading the silence of the hour and place by stoning every wall, post, pillar, and other inanimate object, by the deserted way.

The anterior portion of the ball was occupied by the crowd; on the right and left were magistrates and tables; at the end, upon a platform, a number of judges, whose rear rank sank into the shadows, sinister and motionless faces.

Before the discomfited tragedian could raise his head from the boards, Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.

Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah's corpse.

As the front ranks must meet with the greatest abundance, and the rear ranks must have scanty pickings, the instant a rank finds itself the hindmost, it rises in the air, flies over the whole flock and takes its place in the advance.

No life was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some wounded in the rear ranks, who were carried off the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others -- there always is, after an episode like that.

The six-bladed, 0.5 m (21 in.) diameter chopper wheels size and mix crop residue and are strategically positioned to fill the valley left from the rear rank of shanks, leveling the soil for effective one-pass seedbed preparation.

They were in the rear rank of the Walmington Home Guard platoon - on pounds 10 a day.

Those young Canadians who now make up the ranks of the doomed regiments, be they officers or rear rank privates, will feel betrayed and are unlikely to find much to attract them in the "supplementary forces" mooted to absorb them.

The bunching together of the legionaries was poor generalship once the first two or three ranks were engaged there was absolutely nothing for the rear ranks to do other than wait until the men in front of them were killed.