A hum of anticipation went up from the packed ranks.

Those packed ranks made an easy, slow target for ambush, but, once they began their counter-attack, were far too massive to be repelled.

One at a time he hurled the fragments into the packed ranks of the audience.

Enormous stones rolled through the packed ranks, sweeping men to death in half companies.

Stones from the rock lobber began to fall amongst their densely packed ranks.

At the rear the nervous Naashanites eased away from the packed ranks, forming a fighting square a little way distant.

Startled exclamations came from the packed ranks beneath.

Jabber arose from the packed ranks of the assembly.

Shiv was looking at the closely packed ranks of shelves.

Outcry began to burgeon in the packed ranks about Blade.