The soul is like a ragged army on the march.
Children move across the dark, empty plains in ragged armies, advancing toward the entrances to their own universes.
But no gunfire from the gendarmes because the ragged army offered no resistance.
That ragged army numbered perhaps a thousand men, accompanied by twice that many camp followers.
So he did this, arming his ragged army and promising them many things.
The soldier looked past Snibril at the ragged army.
It looked as though a particularly ragged army had billeted there for a few weeks.
Most of them had belonged to the ragged army of the dispossessed and the unsatisfied.
The ragged, weaponless armies of the Republic held out for two and a half years, which was undoubtedly longer than their enemies expected.
Ryan glanced around him, seeing the ragged army he was about to help.