"Rank and file" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of getting rooms in the barracks," said Shortridge; "but it is not pleasant for a lady to be in the midst of the rank and file." ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... for Buni, and arrived there the same evening. Here he left a young native officer and thirty-three rank and file while, with Lieutenant Jones and the rest of his little force, he marched for Reshun, where Lieutenant Edwards' party were detained. They halted in the middle of the day; and arrived, at one o'clock, at a hamlet halfway ...
— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty
... high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it. The rank and file of the army has been equally inspired by the same fiery and rebellious strains against the order of God and the order of man. 'The day will come,' wrote Mazzini, thirty years ago, 'when Democracy will remember all that it owes ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I - Essay 3: Byron • John Morley
... received a report at nine o'clock in the morning of the direction Cavalier and his troops had taken, and immediately left Sommieres, followed by six companies of Fimarqon dragoons, one hundred Irish free-lances, three hundred rank and file of the Hainault regiment, and one company each of the Soissonnais, Charolais, and Menon regiments, forming in all a corps over nine hundred strong. They took the direction of Vaunages, above Clarensac; but suddenly hearing the rattle of musketry behind them, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Whatever may be thought of the rank and file of China's mandarins, her viceroys are nearly always men of exceptional ability. They are never novices, but as a rule old in years and veterans in experience. Promoted for executive talent or for signal services, their office ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin
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