Quotes About Phalanx

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

Like Orrorin, Ard. kadabba has been held up as an early biped. However, the hypothesis that Ard. kadabba traveled on two legs hinges on a single left foot phalanx, or toe bone, that has been consigned to this species. The bone's joint tilts upward like a human's rather than downward like a chimp's— a configuration that enables humans to "toe off" when walking.

Anon they moveIn perfect phalanx, to the Dorian moodOf flutes and soft recorders.

and that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude. --Arthur Sinclair

When we read certain portions of "Leaves of Grass" we seem to see a vast phalanx of Great Companions passing for ever along the cosmic roads, stalwart Pioneers of the Universe. There are superb young men, athletic girls, splendid and savage old men—for the weak seem to have perished by the roadside.

But thirty years after that, at the battle of Pydna in 168, the Roman general Aemilius Paullus remarked he had never been so fearful as when he faced the Macedonian phalanx in battle array (pp. 166–167).

Having gotten ahead of the phalanx, Katie drops the Tac Light