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The noise of fourteen thousand aeroplanes advancing in open order.†
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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932
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At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; but by little and little the hill began to steepen and become stony under foot, and the wood to change its character and to grow in a more open order.†
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883
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With hounds questing ahead, in open order, the sons of Autolykos went down a glen, Odysseus in the lead, behind the dogs, pointing his long-shadowing spear.†
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Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.
