All 7 Uses of
garrison
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Morrels have been shipowners from father to son; and there was a Morrel who served in the same regiment with me when I was in garrison at Valence.'†
Chpt 1-2 *
- "There are only," said the gendarme, "a governor, a garrison, turnkeys, and good thick walls.†
Chpt 7-8
- It was agreed in a brief council held among them, that Julie should write to her brother, who was in garrison at Nimes, to come to them as speedily as possible.†
Chpt 29-30
- "You say"— "I say that Monte Cristo is an island in the midst of the Mediterranean, without inhabitants or garrison, the resort of smugglers of all nations, and pirates of every flag.†
Chpt 41-42
- I have been told since that the garrison of the castle of Yanina, fatigued with long service"— Here Haidee cast a significant glance at Monte Cristo, whose eyes had been riveted on her countenance during the whole course of her narrative.†
Chpt 77-78
- "You were saying, signora," said Albert, who was paying the most implicit attention to the recital, "that the garrison of Yanina, fatigued with long service"— "Had treated with the Serasker [*] Koorshid, who had been sent by the sultan to gain possession of the person of my father; it was then that Ali Tepelini—after having sent to the sultan a French officer in whom he reposed great confidence—resolved to retire to the asylum which he had long before prepared for himself, and which he…†
Chpt 77-78
- If there had been no bolt, it would have been impossible for him to pass through the midst of the garrison who held the catacombs of St. Sebastian, encamped round a master whom our readers must have recognized as the famous Luigi Vampa.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(garrison) a military post or the troops stationed there