So their disarray fell into rank and order, and wheeling about, they marched away along the forest road with helm agleam and pennons a-dance, the while Sir Pertolepe stared after them, wild of eye and with mailed hands clenched; once he made as if to call them back: but Beltane's hand was heavy on his shoulder, and the dagger pricked his throat.

And there are seen dishevelled locks clasped by the lily hand; And snowy throat and bosom bare, revealed in public, stand; And in their drowsy disarray, and in their anxious fear, Each Moorish lady is surprised with many a sudden tear; And many a heart was filled that night with feverish unrest, As one tall maid looked through the pane with white and heaving breast.

They might hurl him across the Rhine in battered disarray.

She came sooner than he had expected, setting the wild disarray of her hair in some hurried order.

He saw her hair; it was in wild disarray, a tumble of disorder.

She was herself in disarray.

The night will be a desert till the dawn, Unless you take some ferry-boat of dreams, And glide to me, a glory of silver beams, Under my eyelids, like sad curtains drawn; So, by good hap, my heart can find its way Where all your sweetness lies in fragrant disarray.

The host fell in disarray, and began to give back before the onset of the foe.

They did not tarry to order the battle, or make ready ladders for the wall, but they approached the tower in their disarray.

Thus reminded that Lanyard's return might occur at any moment, she made all haste to patch up the disarray of veil and coiffure.

[Absence, or want of Order, &c] Disorder N. disorder; derangement &c 61; irregularity; anomaly &c (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c adj.; disunion; discord &c 24. confusion; confusedness &c adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage^; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch^, hotch-pot^; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum

They fell upon the advancing troop while the men were off their guard and in disarray, and so cut down great numbers of them.

How could he tell, in one brief sentence, all the whole night's happenings?for all that must be included in the explanation of what his luckless disarray meant.

And when one morning, coming from the bath, He crossed the Princess on the palace-stair, And kissed her there in her sweet disarray, Nor met the death he dreamed of in her eyes, He knew himself a hero of old romance, Not seconding, but surpassing, what had been.

" Laughing joyously, he went to her and gathered the soft masses of her hair in his hands, and piled it up in a glorious disarray about her face and head, holding it there, and still laughing into her eyes.

In front of them they saw their two comrades lying motionless in the corridor, table and chairs in full disarray.

A dozen heated horses were turned out unceremoniously, a dozen saddles and bridles dumped down anywhere anyhow, and their occupants, with wet dishevelled hair and clothing in glorious disarray, would appear at table averring that they were starving.

Her dark hair had fallen in disarray.

" Mary's face emptied itself of all expression; it became a blank screen suddenly put up before the disarray of hurrying, eager things, unclothed and unexpressed.

Some of the girls looked in disarray, hair tumbled, frocks rumpled, faces burned.

Before the hindermost can come up, and before your lines of battle are set in order, it will be late; your men will be tired and in disarray; and you will find the enemy cool and fresh.

A flood of colour on the pavement of a covered waya great disarray of little shrivelled lemons, with stalks in many cases, for they have been gathered hard by.

Her hair hung in disarray over her well-developed shoulders, and recent tears had left their furrows on a painted but not uncomely face.

They await me now Who wrought this stinging overthrow; They wait me; not as on the day Of Pope's impelled retreat in disarray By me impelledwhen toward

In the general disarray of the ticketed furniture and stripped walls, all artistic charm had disappeared.