"Your ball broke my first Phalanges.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
We know his methodical organization: the group, composed of seven to nine persons; the series, comprising twenty-four to thirty-two groups; a phalanx that includes eighteen groups, constituting the phalanstery; the small city, a general center of Phalanges; the provincial city, the imperial capital, the universal metropolis.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, Phalanges.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell