The vegetation was lusher than ever after the rains, the odor moist and rank.

Rank after rank of them, towering into the sky with limbs beginning many feet above his head.

Rank after rank of Marines swung by the pickup.

Murdo stood and watched as rank after rank passed, disappearing at last over a rise further down the road.

"Guildsmen," he said, looking back at the rank after rank of members seated around and above him.

Into this pool plunge rank after rank of children chained together.

Working together, they cut down rank after rank of drones.

Rank after rank waited to fill gaps in the line of the Dead.

Rank after rank landed and marched away with machinelike precision.

Rank after rank was walking up out of the hole, stabbing happily at the air.