Grouped into tight, defensive phalanxes, the war host paused in its tracks.

A moment later, we were snapping into a tight phalanx and hitting up a rise where we could see; but by then we knew that there was no danger.

The Hosts scattered as a tight phalanx of Ancestors marched through the parry guests and into the room.

They were hefty and red-speckled, their tops bobbing in a tight phalanx.

Instead of scattering, the Lowlives drew closely together, forming a tight phalanx bristling with four-meter spears.

Even five or six of the Sisters were there, standing close together, a tight little female phalanx.

To the west lies midtown's tight phalanx of glossy office towers, dominated by the oxblood ovoid of Philip Johnson's "lipstick" building.

They were halfway across the station, Heredes a good hundred meters in front of them, when the white uniforms burst through the crowd in a tight phalanx.

Five shots seemed to explode inside the tight phalanx of people around the President.

Trolls and Elves formed quickly into a tight phalanx, a wall of iron spears and lances that cut deep into the writhing black forms.