All 34 Uses of
sentinel
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He looked around; he was in a court surrounded by high walls; he heard the measured tread of sentinels, and as they passed before the light he saw the barrels of their muskets shine.†
Chpt 7-8
- …to a precipice overhanging the sea—to plunge into the waves from the height of fifty, sixty, perhaps a hundred feet, at the risk of being dashed to pieces against the rocks, should you have been fortunate enough to have escaped the fire of the sentinels; and even, supposing all these perils past, then to have to swim for your life a distance of at least three miles ere you could reach the shore—were difficulties so startling and formidable that Dantes had never even dreamed of such a…†
Chpt 15-16
- This time you will lay your plans more accurately; we shall get out into the gallery you have described; kill the sentinel who guards it, and make our escape.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- One day he stopped all at once, and exclaimed, "Ah, if there were no sentinel!"†
Chpt 17-18
- I have; if it were only possible to place a deaf and blind sentinel in the gallery beyond us.†
Chpt 17-18
- At the end of fifteen months the level was finished, and the excavation completed beneath the gallery, and the two workmen could distinctly hear the measured tread of the sentinel as he paced to and fro over their heads.†
Chpt 17-18
- Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.†
Chpt 25-26
- When the boat was within twenty paces of the shore, the man on the beach, who carried a carbine, presented arms after the manner of a sentinel, and cried, "Who comes there?" in Sardinian.†
Chpt 31-32
- As soon as Gaetano had transmitted this answer, the sentinel gave an order to one of the men seated round the fire, who rose and disappeared among the rocks.†
Chpt 31-32
- The man who had disappeared returned suddenly on the opposite side to that by which he had left; he made a sign with his head to the sentinel, who, turning to the boat, said, "S'accommodi."†
Chpt 31-32
- The sailors did not wait for a second invitation; four strokes of the oar brought them to land; Gaetano sprang to shore, exchanged a few words with the sentinel, then his comrades disembarked, and lastly came Franz.†
Chpt 31-32
- The boat was moored to the shore, and they advanced a few paces to find a comfortable bivouac; but, doubtless, the spot they chose did not suit the smuggler who filled the post of sentinel, for he cried out, "Not that way, if you please."†
Chpt 31-32
- "His excellency waits for you," said a voice, which he recognized as that of the sentinel.†
Chpt 31-32
- Then his two guides took his arms, and he went on, guided by them, and preceded by the sentinel.†
Chpt 31-32
- Cucumetto placed his sentinels for the night, and the bandits wrapped themselves in their cloaks, and lay down before the fire.†
Chpt 33-34
- At midnight the sentinel gave the alarm, and in an instant all were on the alert.†
Chpt 33-34
- '—'Who are you?' inquired the sentinel.†
Chpt 33-34
- '—'Follow me, then,' said the sentinel; 'or, as you know your way, go first.†
Chpt 33-34
- 'Here is a young man who seeks and wishes to speak to you,' said the sentinel.†
Chpt 33-34
- The prisoners, transported the previous evening from the Carcere Nuovo to the little church of Santa Maria del Popolo, had passed the night, each accompanied by two priests, in a chapel closed by a grating, before which were two sentinels, who were relieved at intervals.†
Chpt 35-36
- From time to time, by the light of the moon, which began to rise, Franz imagined that he saw something like a sentinel appear at various points among the ruins, and suddenly retreat into the darkness on a signal from Peppino.†
Chpt 37-38
- Behind the sentinel was a staircase with twenty steps.†
Chpt 37-38
- At the other end, silent, scarcely visible, and like a shadow, was a sentinel, who was walking up and down before a grotto, which was only distinguishable because in that spot the darkness seemed more dense than elsewhere.†
Chpt 37-38
- "Who comes there?" cried the sentinel, who was less abstracted, and who saw by the lamp-light a shadow approaching his chief.†
Chpt 37-38
- "What is the prisoner doing?" inquired Vampa of the sentinel.†
Chpt 37-38
- At the Barriere du Trone they met Bertuccio, who was waiting there, motionless as a sentinel at his post.†
Chpt 91-92
- Not only was the first gendarme still there, but the young man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a musket in his fist, was posted as a sentinel at the great street door which alone afforded the means of egress.†
Chpt 97-98
- Now, besides the reports of the sentinels guarding the Hotel de Ville, which is next door to the Bell and Bottle, it had been stated by others that a number of travellers had arrived during the night.†
Chpt 97-98
- The sentinel who was relieved at six o'clock in the morning, remembered perfectly that just as he was taking his post a few minutes past four a young man arrived on horseback, with a little boy before him.†
Chpt 97-98
- Still it appeared as though they were stationed at equal distances from one another, like sentinels.†
Chpt 113-114
- A sentinel struck the rings of his carbine against his left hand.†
Chpt 113-114
- "There," said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings.†
Chpt 113-114
- During all this time a sentinel, who had been relieved at eight o'clock, had been watching his door.†
Chpt 115-116
- The sentinel opened the door; it was a new face.†
Chpt 115-116
Definition:
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(sentinel) a person who stands guard or looks out for something