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- And so the great tragic funneling from wide ocean to narrow beach had begun: hordes of wet, equipment-burdened boys slogging from the water, forming a tightly packed mass on the two-mile strip of beach.†
Chpt 7.hordes = large numbers
- Such attacks—hordes of issen gorin rushing insanely through the darkness toward the bivouacked Americans—had been routine tactics in other Pacific island battles.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(horde) a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)