All 50 Uses of
sentry
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- There is no sentry.†
Chpt 1
- I see them but I do not see any sentry.†
Chpt 1
- There are only two sentries.†
Chpt 1
- It was a steel bridge of a single span and there was a sentry box at each end.†
Chpt 3
- While he had sketched, Anselmo had been watching the road, the bridge and the sentry boxes.†
Chpt 3
- In the sentry box that faced toward them up the road, the sentry was sitting holding his rifle, the bayonet fixed, between his knees.†
Chpt 3
- In the sentry box that faced toward them up the road, the sentry was sitting holding his rifle, the bayonet fixed, between his knees.†
Chpt 3
- There was a worn, blackened leather wine bottle on the wall of the sentry box, there were some newspapers and there was no telephone.†
Chpt 3
- There was a charcoal brazier outside the sentry box, made from an old petrol tin with the top cut off and holes punched in it, which rested on two stones; but he held no fire.†
Chpt 3
- He looked at the sentry as Robert Jordan smiled at him and, pointing with one finger, drew the other across his throat.†
Chpt 3
- The sentry box at the far end of the bridge faced away from them and down the road and they could not see into it.†
Chpt 3
- He was watching the sentry again with his glasses.†
Chpt 3
- The sentry rubbed his cigarette out on the plank wall of the box, then took a leather tobacco pouch from his pocket, opened the paper of the dead cigarette and emptied the remnant of used tobacco into the pouch.†
Chpt 3
- The sentry stood up, leaned his rifle against the wall of the box and stretched, then picked up his rifle, slung it over his shoulder and walked out onto the bridge.†
Chpt 3
- Anselmo said softly as they watched the sentry walk across the bridge toward the other box, his bayonet bright in the last of the afterglow, his figure unshapely in the blanket coat.†
Chpt 3
- The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge.
Chpt 3 *sentry = guard
- Then through this noise came another noise, a steady, racketing drone and they saw the sentry looking up, his knitted cap slanted back, and turning their heads and looking up they saw, high in the evening sky, three monoplanes in V formation, showing minute and silvery at that height where there still was sun, passing unbelievably quickly across the sky, their motors now throbbing steadily.†
Chpt 3
- The sentry was still standing at the far box with his back turned.†
Chpt 3
- And the sentry.†
Chpt 3
- You joked of killing the sentry.†
Chpt 3
- I would kill the sentry.†
Chpt 3
- It would be ideal if she would kill him, or if the gypsy would (but he will not) or if the sentry, Agustan, would.†
Chpt 5
- But thy two sentries will be coming up now with the snow and you would miss them on the way.†
Chpt 14
- It was in Otero that Pablo knifed the sentry when Anselmo pulled the blanket over his head and the sentry caught Anselmo's foot and held it, smothered as he was in the blanket, and made a crying noise in the blanket and Anselmo had to feel in the blanket and knife him until he let go of the foot and was still.†
Chpt 15
- It was in Otero that Pablo knifed the sentry when Anselmo pulled the blanket over his head and the sentry caught Anselmo's foot and held it, smothered as he was in the blanket, and made a crying noise in the blanket and Anselmo had to feel in the blanket and knife him until he let go of the foot and was still.†
Chpt 15
- Where's the sentry?†
Chpt 15
- Haven't you any sentries out?†
Chpt 16
- There were sentries with bayonets downstairs outside the portecochere at Gaylord's and tonight it would be the pleasantest and most comfortable place in all of besieged Madrid.†
Chpt 18
- "Will you not have sentries?" he asked.†
Chpt 20
- A car pulled up under the porte-cochere of the hotel, its headlights painted over with blue calcimine and a little man in black riding boots, gray riding breeches and a short, gray high-buttoned jacket stepped out and returned the salute of the two sentries as he opened the door, nodded to the secret policeman who sat at the concierge's desk and stepped into the elevator.†
Chpt 32
- There were two sentries seated on chairs inside the door, one on each side of the marble entrance hall, and these only looked up as the little man passed them at the door of the elevator.†
Chpt 32
- Can he get out with the horses other ways than by the sentry?†
Chpt 33
- They turned into the little smashed-roofed mountain-resort town where brigade headquarters was and Gomez had braked the motorcycle like a dirt-track racer and leaned it against the wall of the house where a sleepy sentry came to attention as Gomez pushed by him into the big room where the walls were covered with maps and a very sleepy officer with a green eyeshade sat at a desk with a reading lamp, two telephones and a copy of Mundo Obrero.†
Chpt 40
- "In the sentry box at this end," Robert Jordan whispered.†
Chpt 41
- Who deals with the sentries?†
Chpt 41
- But if we do not deal with them, thou must fire into the sentry boxes and at them if thou seest them.†
Chpt 41
- But canst thou be sure of the sentry with thy small maquina from here?†
Chpt 41
- It had been the same with Agustan, who had asked a question about the sentries although he knew the answer.†
Chpt 41
- Sometimes he could not see it and then he knew that the man in the sentry box had moved in front of the brazier.†
Chpt 41
- But when Gomez showed the sentry at the control his safeconduct from the Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda the sentry put the light from a flashlight on it, showed it to the other sentry with him, then handed it back and saluted.†
Chpt 42
- But when Gomez showed the sentry at the control his safeconduct from the Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda the sentry put the light from a flashlight on it, showed it to the other sentry with him, then handed it back and saluted.†
Chpt 42
- But when Gomez showed the sentry at the control his safeconduct from the Lieutenant-Colonel Miranda the sentry put the light from a flashlight on it, showed it to the other sentry with him, then handed it back and saluted.†
Chpt 42
- "Let us go to ask there where the headquarters is," Gomez said to Andres and they wheeled the motorcycle over to where two sentries stood in front of the closed door of the great stone building.†
Chpt 42
- At the door Gomez spoke to one of the sentries.†
Chpt 42
- It isn't here," the sentry said.†
Chpt 42
- "Who art thou to ask so many questions?" the sentry said to Gomez in the dark.†
Chpt 42
- The sentry opened the door a little way.†
Chpt 42
- I asked the sentry and he called you.†
Chpt 42
- Below he saw, through the light mist that rose from the stream bed, the steel of the bridge, straight and rigid across the gap, with the wooden sentry boxes at each end.†
Chpt 43
- He saw the sentry now in his box as he stood, his back with the hanging blanket coat topped by the steel casque on his head showing as he leaned forward over the hole-punched petrol tin of the brazier, warming his hands.†
Chpt 43
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard