The main garrison is in a tiny town called Bascale, which is better known for its heroin labs. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get a Nuclear Bomb] Reference
They cited a lack of concern by their leaders and what they call garrison style policies and duties. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2004] Reference
His garrison is said to have consisted of forty thousand Turks and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
When I called the garrison, the commander laughed and said that Jor would turn up. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon Shops of Isher]
Strasburg has expanded from being an ill-kept, pent-in French garrison town to a great and beautiful city. From Wordnik.com. [The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914] Reference
The garrison is almost constantly sending the various units out or bringing them back at the end of their tours. From Wordnik.com. [Peace is Hell] Reference
This centurion built a synagogue at his own proper costs and charges, and probably employed his soldiers that were in garrison there in the building, to keep them from idleness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Where wives, at least, are seldom kept in garrison. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape] Reference
The garrison might be a hundred fifty or two hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
The garrison was a small one, and had not been reinforced. From Wordnik.com. [Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War] Reference
To establish a communication with the garrison was the next object. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
Alvira's absence from the garrison was the subject of serious comment. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
They are called in Spanish, Presidio, the English of which is, a garrison. From Wordnik.com. [Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830] Reference
Time in a garrison is the most lingering of all conceivable things, except time in a prison. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
After all a Spanish hidalgo in command of the garrison was a distinguished person, and, alas!. From Wordnik.com. [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference
San Antonio was then known as a garrison, and was usually spoken of as the Presidio of Bexar. From Wordnik.com. [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference
They had also cut off all supplies, so that the garrison was almost reduced to the point of starvation. From Wordnik.com. [An Address in Commemoration of the Re-Establishment of the National Flag at Fort Sumter.] Reference
Turks of the garrison were his prisoners; we agreed with him to carry them at his leisure and their ease to Akaba. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Parliament desires is the destruction of the castle as a stronghold; but as to the garrison, that is another thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference
Zebehr Pasha's Soudanese will have even less time, while the old soldiers of the garrison are as bad as recruits; the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference
They will but increase the distress of the garrison, which is represented as very great, as they have brought no provisions. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
The garrison is the vehicle, though. 4,000 of our finest and we are in worse shape domestically as well in National Security. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Hayden: Pressuring the Democrats on Peace: A Commentary on the Fifth Anniversary of the War] Reference
The garrison was a very small one, but it was aided by the whole of the inhabitants; who were, like those of La Rochelle, zealous. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS] Reference
Such was the singular address of these two gentlemen, that the first notice to the garrison was the forlorns plunging into the canal. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
There is a magazine in it, with barracks for the troops of the garrison, which is generally pretty numerous, and a flag for the commandant. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
A new shantytown unit, known today as the "garrison," was born. From Wordnik.com. [After Jamaican Siege, a Bigger Battle] Reference
Here the Portuguese maintain a kind of garrison, if we may allow it that name. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] Reference
Will that be a presence in a kind of garrison inside of whatever is left of Iraq?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2007] Reference
And is that a courageous garrison which is calm because it believes itself to be still safe?. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
+ Mattsab and mattsabah undoubtedly mean a "garrison" or fortified post. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Barracks and factories can produce "garrison" units just like space stations. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"A garrison is a garrison; and Injins seldom do much on a well-built and boldly-defended spot of that natur '. From Wordnik.com. [Oak Openings] Reference
Luckily the corporal's "garrison" did not drink, and the want was so much the more easily supplied for the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Oak Openings] Reference
The new citizens formed a kind of garrison, and were held together by a constitution formed on the model of the parent state. From Wordnik.com. [Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.] Reference
+ Netsib is also used for a "garrison" in (1 Chronicles 11: 16) but elsewhere for a "column" erected in an enemy's country as. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Some of them, indeed, the "garrison" pure and simple, had all their interests centred not only in resisting but in calumniating her. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Secret of Ireland] Reference
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