Squads of infantry, banding together for protection, toiled along painfully by easy stages, unable to keep pace with the colours, but hoping to be up in time for the next fight; and amongst these were not a few officers.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
We are banding together without any instruction from you or any aid society.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
Then whether 'twere corporeal, local, fixed, Ex traduce; but whether 't had free will Or no, hot philosophers Stood banding factions all so strongly propped, I staggered, knew not which was firmer part; But thought, quoted, read, observed and pried, Stuffed noting-books, and still my spaniel slept.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury