His brother wasn't the type to have neatly arranged rows of canned corn and peas.

A slave-warehouse in New Orleans is a house externally not much unlike many others, kept with neatness; and where every day you may see arranged, under a sort of shed along the outside, rows of men and women, who stand there as a sign of the property sold within.

In the 1960's the Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd composed his series of galvanized iron boxes, which he arranged them formal rows.

Joan Witek John Davis Gallery 568 Broadway (near Prince Street) Through April 23 Having spent much of her career arranging geometric rows of small, even black lines on a white background, Joan Witek has moved increasingly toward a vocabulary of subtle figuration.

The night of the meeting we arranged rows and rows of chairs in anticipation of the crowd.

Mr. Brown arranges rows of irregular spots or found paper or fabric rectangles and adds blobby gestures here and there.

On the sofa in front of it, Ms. Dandois has arranged rows of pillows made from embroidered obis, all of which also have fan designs.

A starfish has little feelers, or "fingers," arranged parallel rows on the inner side of its armsÄthousands of little feelers, and these exert a sort of sucking action.