serry

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Correscations of the serry beltum. "

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  • Correscations of the serry beltum. " —  A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West
  • The 10,000 Horse feel astonished, insulted; and rush out again, furiously charging; the English halt and serry themselves: 'No fire till they are within forty paces;' and then such pouring torrents of it as no horse or man can endure. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
  • 'I have seen him,' Milo writes somewhere, 'ride into a serry of knights, singing, throwing up and catching again his great sword Gaynpayn; then, all of a sudden, stiffen as with a gush of sap in his veins, dart his head forward, gather his horse together under him, and fling into the midst of them like a tiger into a herd of bulls. —  The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
 

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  1. First and chiefly in the past participle or participial adjective serried, which is an accommodation, with past participle -ed, of French serré, close, compact, past participle of serrer, close firmly or compactly together: see serr, which is the reg. form from the F. infinitive.
 

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