"Array" Quotes from Famous Books
... sleepy peace it lay, As satiate with the boundless play Of sunshine in its green array. And clear-cut hills of gloomy blue, To keep it safe rose up behind, As with a charmed ring to bind The grassy sea, where clouds might find A place ... — Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... young by seeming, of scarce twenty summers; fair of face as a flower; grey-eyed, brown-haired, with lips full and red, slim and gentle of body. Simple was her array, of a short and strait green gown, so that on her right ankle was clear to see an ... — The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris
... Michilimakinack surrendered to the British without resistance. The indefatigable Brock, with a reinforcement of 400 regulars, arrived at Maiden; and several Indian tribes, before hesitating in the choice of sides, began to take their ground and array themselves under the British standard." ... — The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper
... edifice, or bestowing the powder either on her neighbours or on the richly-flowered white brocade she wore; while she received the compliments, one after another, of ladies in even more gorgeous array, and gentlemen in velvet coats, adorned with gold lace, cravats of exquisite fabric, and diamond ... — A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... marched over the hills along one of the muddy roads, and presently saw a vast array of tents, fires, and earthworks, stretching to the horizon. Harry's heart leaped again. This was the great army of the South. Here were regiments and regiments, thousands and thousands of men and here he would find his friends, Colonel Talbot ... — The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
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