loose order

The men who could walk were marched in loose order back to the school.

The rest of the warriors shook themselves out into real battle lines rather than the loose order in which they had been traveling before.

About fifty men marched ahead in loose order to guard against surprise, while as many more followed behind.

Here are not the 10 best, but 10 noteworthy items, in loose order: 1.

Keep in loose order, as I said.

The guardsmen and wizards advanced in loose order over the barren ground.

The horses had gone up to the right, and they now started for the preliminary canter, passing in loose order before the stands.

Creslin points to the deck, where Westwind guards stand in loose order.

They rode in loose order, with plenty of scouts forward andmore out on either flank.

In loose order the Romans would be horribly vulnerable to the tough mounted lancers.

They rode in loose order, laughing and joking and plainly not looking for any trouble.

Even marching in loose order, Talsu was nervous.

Though helmeted, the men were in loose order and walked rather than marched, expecting no trouble on a routine patrol.

As they jangled past in somewhat loose order, their course lay through a pine-wood, into which the road takes a sharp bend.

Actually, Donal thought, "loose order" was a misnomer.

Applicable properties are set out in the following table, in loose order of ease of determination:

Physical properties are listed in loose order of ease of determination; chemical properties run from general to specific, and then to descriptive.

They glanced at each other, not certain if they had surrendered or not, but the sight of the attackers, swarming in loose order over the rubble, decided them.

Line Infantry - line infantry refers to those regiments that historically fought in linear formations, unlike light troops, who fought in loose order.

Taking advantage of the loose order of the beeves, the old man rode back and forth through them until approaching darkness compelled us to throw them together on the bedground.

During his time in Iberia, Afranius had trained his legions to use a loose order formation, similar to that used so successfully by the Celtiberians and Lusitani.

They did not fight in the massed pike and musket formations that dominated continental Europe at the time, but fired their muskets in loose order before closing with swords and half-pikes.

A compact group of soldiers had little trouble holding unicorns at bay, but the beasts and the warriors aboard them could be dangerous to men in loose order, especially when those men were already fighting for their lives.

A few men, all dressed in the same style of uniform as Carter, were moving away from the huts in loose order, heading for a point where the valley narrowed to a two-hundred yard bottleneck before opening out again.

Breaking up into loose order, they made their way back with surprisingly little loss; but a strange contretemps occurred, for, leaping suddenly into a trench held by the Gordons, they transfixed themselves upon the bayonets of the men.