They formed up in a long queue outside the dressing-station, where doctors waited for them, and where there was a hot drink to be had.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It was when he said this that the mountainous lady at the head of the queue flung behaviour to the winds and let herself go uncontrolledly.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
That same evening, at the same hour as that in which on the preceding I sat lone and comfortless by the coffee-room fire, I was seated opposite a very pompous, respectable-looking old man, with a large, stiff queue of white hair, who pressed me repeatedly to fill my glass and pass the decanter.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)