Indian file
Example Sentences
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Before long, like African okra and Choctaw Indian file powder, this “Italian” ingredient made its way into Creole cooking.
Laid in a decent black coffin, the body is placed where all the prisoners can see the face, as they pass in Indian file by it.
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They politely shook hands and bade me “Good-bye” to jog off through the rain to their camping place, Indian file, he following in the rear contentedly smoking a pipe.
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Meanwhile, Pontiac, who had crossed with the canoes from the eastern shore, was approaching along the river road, at the head of his sixty chiefs, all gravely marching in Indian file.
From Project Gutenberg
This formation of the Ti-ping armies much resembles the movement by "fours" of the British army; but the files are single—what is usually termed the Indian file, and each acts independently of the others.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
