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Example sentences for "hollow square"

  • The British as usual advanced in the form of a hollow square, the troops being disposed as in the diagram.

  • Early on the morning of 29th February the British column set out, marching in the form of a hollow square, with the transport animals carrying reserve ammunition and hospital equipment in the middle.

  • We were then formed into a hollow square, and commanded by Col.

  • We were then marched back a short distance, on the public square in Far West, where we were again formed into a hollow square, near the house of Brother Beeman.

  • The military were formed into what I would call three sides of a hollow square.

  • The troops were formed in a hollow square.

  • They were put into what is termed a hollow square, and then what followed after that---- Q.

  • We now entered the negro quarter, a solid range of low buildings, formed around a hollow square, whose strong entrance is closed at nightfall, and its inmates kept in strict confinement till the morning hour of work comes round.

  • He paraded his men in a hollow square, in front of the office, in such manner that the office formed one angle of the square, so that the main issue from the door ushered the individual into a square bristling with bayonets.

  • They were formed in a hollow square in front of his marque.

  • He was present, in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was read to the troops drawn up in hollow square at Ticonderoga.

  • Form the men into a hollow square," he said to the majors.

  • He marched the regiment to a quiet spot in the suburbs, and ordered them to form in a hollow square, with the men who had last joined in the centre.

  • I'll have that cold-blooded young villain shot in a hollow square, and I'll have it done in this very district, that the whole county may know the disgrace of the high and mighty Spragues.

  • The caravanserai, in the usual shape of such buildings, is a hollow square, with a gate to the East.

  • We now entered the Negro quarter, a solid range of low buildings, formed around a hollow square, whose strong entrance is closed at nightfall, and its inmates kept in strict confinement till the morning hour of work comes round.

  • Going out to the path from which we had turned off to reach this edifice, and proceeding upon it a short distance, we saw through the trees the corner of a large building, which proved to be a great parallelogram, enclosing a hollow square.

  • Its form was rectangular, its four sides enclosing a hollow square.

  • In front was a grand courtyard, with ranges of ruined buildings, forming a hollow square, and in the centre a gigantic staircase rose from the courtyard to the platform of the third story.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already knew; brisk walk; carefully considered; celled ovary; dead calm; enter upon; flattered himself; found again; greater number; has also; hollow cylinder; hollow place; hollow sphere; hollow tone; hollow tree; hollow trees; hollow voice; married man; pound shot; pretty things; proper mode; should follow his steps; special value; the word; there must; this child