It was pitch dark, so I called the sentry and told him some one was hurt. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
"There he go back and forrards, doing what he call his sentry go. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
"Corporal of the Guard!" called the sentry in a loud voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
The sentry was a husky woman who held the rank of corporal. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
In his way the sentry is a tremendously important personage. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army] Reference
"Beware!" called the sentry, while he was yet three hundred yards away. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of the World] Reference
We found the cough to be a sentry, and behind the sentry were the Devons. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
"Who goes there?" called the sentry at the sound of approaching footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
When the commander lies down he should do so near the sentry, which is always posted over the support. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition] Reference
I recalled the sentry's warm blood running over my hands and guiltily, reflexively wiped them on my cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Now the two young men recognized each other and the sentry was a tall, fine-looking fellow, the son of a peasant. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 200322] Reference
The colonel called the sentry, and learned that the cart had been standing before the gate since the preceding evening. From Wordnik.com. [Banzai! by Parabellum] Reference
A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Whaler] Reference
One of the "sentry" heads looked at her, and a very human sigh seemed to come from all directions. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
In addition to this, the front door was screened by a kind of sentry-box porch, open only on one side. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
One displayed streams of data from the "sentry" machines that Counterpane installs in its clients 'networks. From Wordnik.com. [Homeland Insecurity] Reference
The Hall of Burgesses was a modest, dark room with rows of benches on either side and a kind of sentry box for the speaker in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
We have a series of 'sentry' wells at the river to monitor the water. From Wordnik.com. [WBIR.com - News] Reference
Over it stood a kind of sentry-box, or tower, composed of the large bones of large fish. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference
"sentry," standing aloft between these two when they cannot keep watch upon one another. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Inquiring of the sentry, they learned that they had landed at. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
The sentry gave them directions as to the best way to reach camp. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Tho 'we have fallen up ourselves we have picked, I whisper to the sentry. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems] Reference
That time the sentry took it up, and yelled, "Corporal of the guard, No. 1!". From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
The parapet is about ten feet high, upon the top of which a sentry walks all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Yesterday morning one of the general prisoners here escaped from the sentry guarding him. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Cressy was probably on guard that day, and sentry over the prisoners who had brought water. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
He seems doomed -- until a heroic Northern sentry saves his life by defusing an unexploded mine. From Wordnik.com. [Friends And Enemies: A Cinematic Twist] Reference
As the Qaeda sentry watched the U.S. troops, the patrol started moving in a different direction. From Wordnik.com. [Into Thin Air] Reference
At one place on my ride, I saw a sentry walking in front of a house, and stopped to inquire what he was doing there. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Suddenly, an Iraqi sentry at the main ground-control center spotted the choppers and turned to run toward the bunker. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Warriors] Reference
Three years ago, in Inner Mongolia, highway builders demolished part of a sentry-post wall dating back more than 2,200 years. From Wordnik.com. [Late Great Wall] Reference
They never took off the hand grenades that hung from their belts, and everyone was required to take turns on sentry duty at night. From Wordnik.com. [Back In Business] Reference
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