troops-of-the-line

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A fit suggestion; for next follows a detachment of Portuguese troops-of-the-line, twenty shambling men in short jackets, with hair shaved close, looking most like children's wooden monkeys, by no means live enough for the real ones. They straggle along, scarcely less irregular in aspect than the main body of the procession; they march to the tap of the drum.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860