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All night roisterers had flanked his room, there had been the buzz of eager argument overhead, riot of dispute below, and continual thudding of hurrying feet in the corridors.

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman

It was twice as broad as the one he had flanked a few minutes before, and did not offer the slightest concealment.

From The Phantom of the River by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Meanwhile, two accomplices had flanked the picket, and they presently joined Rowley and showed him the way to a farm not far away, where a grave was hastily dug and the coffin lowered into it.

From Ten American Girls From History by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

First a wood-cutter's hut or two, then a market gardener's shanty, then a painted cottage, and all at once the faubourg had flanked and half surrounded him and his dried-up marsh.

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington

We found that this force was the very one that had flanked our laager the previous week, when we were passing Ventersdorp.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf