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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located farther in.
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- adjective Located
further in (especially from a coast)
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Examples
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A moment back, he had had no thought of such a thing; now, here it was, expressed, over his lips — another of those strange, inlying truths, which were existent in him, and only waited for a certain moment to come to light.
Maurice Guest 2003
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We very soon got settled down, and mounted a guard and an inlying picquet.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie
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Lumsden jumped to his feet, and taking this inlying picquet, rushed out of camp at its head, and so posted it as to enfilade and hold in check the great body of Waziris who now darkened the skyline.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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On the 18th some of the usual desultory sniping commenced on the other side of the camp, but a demonstration by the inlying piquet ( 'G' company, 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers) was sufficient to put a stop to it.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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Behind it the infantry lie down to sleep, a section of each company, as an inlying picket, dressed and accoutred.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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On the first sound of firing the inlying picket of the 24th Punjaub
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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The inlying pickets were accordingly doubled, and every man slept in his clothes, so as to be ready.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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During the hours of darkness, up and down the footway that had been cut, toiled and slipped a patrol, whilst in the valley itself a platoon was kept in a state of constant readiness as an inlying picquet.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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A strong inlying piquet, to act eventually as a reserve, must be placed in a central position.
Cavalry in Future Wars Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889
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True polish in marble or in speech reveals inlying realities, and, in the latter at least, mere smoothness, either of sound or of meaning, is not worthy of the name.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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