All 12 Uses of
sentry
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- This side of your chamber looks out upon a kind of open gallery, where patrols are continually passing, and sentries keep watch day and night.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?†
Chpt 17-18
- In this passage he proposed to drive a level as they do in mines; this level would bring the two prisoners immediately beneath the gallery where the sentry kept watch; once there, a large excavation would be made, and one of the flag-stones with which the gallery was paved be so completely loosened that at the desired moment it would give way beneath the feet of the soldier, who, stunned by his fall, would be immediately bound and gagged by Dantes before he had power to offer any…†
Chpt 17-18
- Compelled, as they were, to await a night sufficiently dark to favor their flight, they were obliged to defer their final attempt till that auspicious moment should arrive; their greatest dread now was lest the stone through which the sentry was doomed to fall should give way before its right time, and this they had in some measure provided against by propping it up with a small beam which they had discovered in the walls through which they had worked their way.†
Chpt 17-18
- At the moment Caderousse quitted his sentry-like watch before the door, the road on which he so eagerly strained his sight was void and lonely as a desert at mid-day.†
Chpt 25-26
- The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.†
Chpt 27-28
- As Morrel and his son embraced on the pier-head, in the presence and amid the applause of the whole city witnessing this event, a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: "Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."†
Chpt 29-30
- They advanced about thirty paces, and then stopped at a small esplanade surrounded with rocks, in which seats had been cut, not unlike sentry-boxes.†
Chpt 31-32
- —'Good!' said the sentry, 'you may now go on.†
Chpt 33-34
- Let us go on; Peppino will have warned the sentry of our coming.†
Chpt 37-38
- "A friend!" responded Peppino; and, advancing alone towards the sentry, he said a few words to him in a low tone; and then he, like the first, saluted the nocturnal visitors, making a sign that they might proceed.†
Chpt 37-38
- "Ma foi, captain," replied the sentry, "I do not know; for the last hour I have not heard him stir."†
Chpt 37-38
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard