| 1. | Keep your fingers from that bitter phalanx of vials. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | With whom the firm Athenian phalanx stand. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx dense formation that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 4. | To whom did this anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds To the most absolute. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |