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  • Occasionally, out of the wide expanse of brooding indolence a knot of men would gather flockwise, and melt as quickly.

    Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

  • It was the season of the year when there is a soft bloom on the days, but the nights are cowering cold and the lambs tender, not yet flockwise.

    The Walking Woman 1907

  • My friend Ewan told me, among other things, when he came back from San Juan Hill, that not all the carnage of battle turned his bowels as the sight of slant black wings rising flockwise before the burial squad.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • Here the Shoshones winter flockwise, weaving baskets and hunting big game driven down from the country of the deep snow.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • My friend Ewan told me, among other things, when he came back from San Juan Hill, that not all the carnage of battle turned his bowels as the sight of slant black wings rising flockwise before the burial squad.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • Shoshones winter flockwise, weaving baskets and hunting big game driven down from the country of the deep snow.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

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