"Marching order" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning at Coblentz, when the division in which he served was paraded on the Platz in heavy marching order, the men hurriedly falling into the ranks. "No more sentry rounds now and guard-mounting; ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... custom-house are much scantier than should be; but for myself there is something that deprecates irritation in the shabby green and grey uniforms of all the Italian officials who stand loafing about and watching the northern invaders scramble back into marching order. Wearing an administrative uniform doesn't necessarily spoil a man's temper, as in France one is sometimes led to believe; for these excellent under-paid Italians carry theirs as lightly as possible, and their ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... bells were ringing, the classes broke up to form into marching order, and the lesson ...
— Amy Harrison - or Heavenly Seed and Heavenly Dew • Amy Harrison
... the rocks, at imminent danger to our burden of blankets and camp-kettles; in others we became quadrupedal, scrambling up acclivities with which the bald main precipice had made but slight compromise. But for our light marching order,—our only dress being knee-boots, hunting-shirt, and trowsers,—it would have been next to impossible to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... corps assembled again in heavy marching order and, after inspection, the second, third, and fourth companies marched off; with their officers, who alone knew their destination, at their head. Major Tempe remained on the ground, with the first company. After waiting ...
— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty
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