Thus, without considering the consequences, I found myself in the forerank of the battle host.

Those in the rear force their way forward even as the forerank folds inward upon itself.

From the forerank of warriors two horsemen rode to meet us.

After a time, one of the standard-bearers moved from his place in the forerank, advanced a few places and stopped.

"We should have been mounted before now for we ride in the forerank of the knights today."

Scanning the throng of warriors, I was surprised to see the man who had been shot standing in the forerank once more.

Llenlleawg had reached the beleaguered Cai and took his place in the forerank of the fight.

Hesitation ripples through the enemy forerank, passing backward through the floodtide.

The forerank of warriors stumbled backward as the screaming battle host threw themselves- headlong onto our weapons.

The forerank faltered, sagged, and then broke, as brave men turned their backs and ran from the fight.

Their forerank did not charge wildly upon the foe, flailing like savages, nor did they advance with the stolid precision of the parade ground.

The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram.

About him marched the companion guard of the Knights, a half call-up, a hundred and fifty, with Polynikes in the forerank of honor beside six other Olympic victors.

Right of these, dressing their line, moved into place the Wild Olive regiment, a hundred and forty-four across, with the Panther battalion adjacent the Knights, then the Huntress with Olympieus in the forerank, and the Menelaion.

The result of this was precisely what the Lakedaemonians expected: the forerank of the enemy collapsed immediately as the first shock hit it; the body-length shields seemed to implode rearward, their anchoring spikes rooted slinging from the earth like tent pins in a gale.

And so it was that when they came within sight of the village they were met by a great crowd of laughing, shouting Gallas, and in the forerank were the father and mother of Fejjuan, their eyes blinded by the tears of love and joy that welled at sight of this long gone child.