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  • They learn the names of the different architectural styles: cape, saltbox, raised ranch, garrison.†   (source)
  • Kassad volunteered and discovered that he enjoyed the discipline and cleanliness of military life, even though the John Carter Brigade saw only garrison duty within the Web and was dissolved shortly after Glennon-Height's cloned grandson died on Renaissance.†   (source)
  • One cannot be too careful in a garrison town, as soldiers and sailors are promiscuous in their habits.†   (source)
  • From the garrison in Boston.†   (source)
  • General Garrison knew that.†   (source)
  • He dropped his magazine and sauntered over, thumbs hooked into his side-hitched garrison belt, fingers dangling limply toward the stuffed crotch of his pegged levis.†   (source)
  • But if there were more of them, some kind of Taliban garrison crawling with armed men, we were to call for a proper fighting force to fly in and take care of the problem.†   (source)
  • After sixteen defeats, Colonel Aureliano Buendia left Guajira with two thousand well-armed Indians and the garrison, which was taken by surprise as it slept, abandoned Riohacha.†   (source)
  • Designed by Herreshoff, one of the most noted maritime engineers of that period, it had a long and adventurous history (including being used in the Second World War to study the German garrisons that lined the shores of France).†   (source)
  • Alexandre Vangeersad was a soldier and not personally acquainted with the king, but he had distinguished himself as the capable head of a garrison.†   (source)
  • While Hawat's occupied with the Lady Jessica, we'll divert him further with uprisings in a few garrison towns and the like.†   (source)
  • Annabeth dodged into a small room that must have been part of the garrison.†   (source)
  • "Garrison troops," he said loudly, for Jolly's ear, "are what make a wartime army."†   (source)
  • He still wore a garrison belt with a longhorn buckle.†   (source)
  • The ostler must have called out the town garrison without counting his horses first.†   (source)
  • Coach Garrison or Mr. Harris the math teacher?†   (source)
  • THE NEXT MORNING, as Ghosh made rounds, he wondered if the Colonel made it back to his garrison in Gondar without incident.†   (source)
  • He was determined that they should not be caught unarmed, and began searching the lockers, thankfully remembering that he had always been careful to have these garrison towers inspected once a year and to make sure that they were stocked with all things needful.†   (source)
  • Since most of the Empire's garrisons are located east of the Scholars' Quarter, I head west.†   (source)
  • I stood up with Greg Garrison when he married Tracy from the art department, and threw a bachelor party that ended ignominously when he, drunk as Cooter Brown on the one night of a man's life when it is more or less acceptable, bit a nudie dancer on the behind and got us tossed out of the bar by one of the biggest men I have ever seen.†   (source)
  • An assault on a town garrisoned with regular troops could have horrible consequences, Greene wrote, "horrible if it succeeded, and still more horrible if it failed."†   (source)
  • Irvin Mortenson, Greg's father, was born of the well-intentioned Lutheran stock that Garrison Keillor has mined for so much material.†   (source)
  • We were, indeed, the guests of the commander and his small garrison.†   (source)
  • There are small German garrisons here and here.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the four of us were all that was necessary to beat their garrison.†   (source)
  • None of which we cared about, as looked as if that Garrison landing had wasted Prof.†   (source)
  • Now the watch-towers, which had fallen into decay, were repaired, and filled with arms, and garrisoned with ceaseless vigilance.†   (source)
  • The first was a man at the Guangdong garrison named Soo Jiang—' 'I've heard the name.†   (source)
  • We're going to try to accomplish what the carabinieri and the local army garrisons cannot.†   (source)
  • But the fact is, my dear Napoleon, we already have soldiers, too, who do nothing but sit in garrison at Fort Detroit and Fort Chicago, paying for scalps with bourbon.†   (source)
  • Some fell under the tyranny of Macedonian garrisons; others fell to usurpers within Greece.†   (source)
  • The following morning, just after dawn, under witness by the entire garrison, he was executed.†   (source)
  • Ever since the school had been founded in 1842, after a slave insurrection, the Corps had marched on Fridays in Charleston, except on the Friday following that celebrated moment when cadets from the Institute had opened fire on the Star of the East, a Northern supply ship trying to deliver supplies to the beleaguered garrison at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • The mayor and the constables got Garrison away from the crowd and finally lodged him in the Leverett Street Jail for safety.†   (source)
  • So they were, until well after the sun had set and Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard and their chicks, by holding up the glowing roaches of their cigarettes like a flipcard section at a football game to spell out alternate S's and O's, attracted the attention of the Fangoso Lagoons Security Force, a garrison against the night made up of one-time cowboy actors and L.A. motorcycle cops.†   (source)
  • She was going to the movies at the garrison recreation center and she wanted to know if she might take Iphigenie with her.†   (source)
  • But he shot game and caught fish for the garrison pot, and studied botany and the culture of citrus.†   (source)
  • I lit a cigarette and moved to the window to consider the night, leaving the cards where they had fallen upon the table-top of my room within the garrison.†   (source)
  • On getting his commission, he had found himself, against his will and for no reason that he knew of, in a soft job in a smalltown garrison behind the lines.†   (source)
  • In New England, Garrison was publicly proclaiming, "I am an Abolitionist and, therefore, for the dissolution of the Union."†   (source)
  • Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.   (source)
  • At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.   (source)
  • It was then openly announced that hostilities must cease--Munro having signed a treaty by which the place was to be yielded to the enemy, with the morning; the garrison to retain their arms, the colors and their baggage, and, consequently, according to military opinion, their honor.   (source)
  • In any of our towns of garrison.   (source)
  • Jaime still had the garrison to deal with.†   (source)
  • He said he'd pass me around to the g-g-garrison, if any of them would have me.†   (source)
  • The Tully garrison departed the next morning, stripped of all their arms and armor.†   (source)
  • I gave Edmure my word that if he yielded, the garrison could leave unharmed.†   (source)
  • Too large a garrison, in truth, but Lord Emmon had an anxious disposition.†   (source)
  • Ser Brynden will be allowed to take the black, along with as many of the garrison as choose to join him.†   (source)
  • Your garrison will perish to a man.†   (source)
  • You have a garrison of two hundred.†   (source)
  • That way he could make certain of the castle and its garrison, and if any part of what he saw or heard gave him pause, he could just turn around and bring Gilly back to Oldtown.†   (source)
  • Captain Aquiles Ricardo, the commander of the garrison, took over the exercise of municipal power.†   (source)
  • When General Garrison found out, he whacked our pee-pees.†   (source)
  • He came to battle wielding a samurai's sword against the rifles of an imperial garrison.†   (source)
  • Anew garrison commander has arrived on the Emerald Coast, a colonel.†   (source)
  • For them Lillian's small house on stilts must have felt like a safe garrison in hostile territory.†   (source)
  • I note that suits are manufactured also in some of the garrison cities.†   (source)
  • General Garrison received permission to go to Phase Three—going after Aidid's lieutenants.†   (source)
  • It's a dirty, dusty little garrison town," he agreed.†   (source)
  • Condor called in a helo to fly Stingray and the asset to the army base and brief General Garrison.†   (source)
  • If your cover is compromised, General Garrison will get you out of there within fifteen minutes.†   (source)
  • Condor wasn't mad at us SEALs, but he was mad at General Garrison.†   (source)
  • General Garrison said, "Your sniper craft skills were remarkable.†   (source)
  • At the time, I was mad at Garrison, too.†   (source)
  • That's what you had to love about Garrison.†   (source)
  • Garrison took one look at the four of us and said, "Hey, how come you all got your hair cut?†   (source)
  • Garrison understood that we all needed to get realistic about them.†   (source)
  • If Garrison isn't going to do it, why did he even send us out here?†   (source)
  • The Crag was weakly garrisoned, so we took it by storm one night.†   (source)
  • I mean to have every one of them garrisoned again before the year is out.†   (source)
  • For three nights he slept with irons around his ankles in the cells of the local garrison.†   (source)
  • The orphanage was in a garrison town and was, as it were, sponsored by the Red Army.†   (source)
  • "What's the garrison at Ephrata?" the minister of war asked.†   (source)
  • We took their uniforms and sent them on foot back to the garrison.†   (source)
  • 'Macao lai dianhua' replied the switchboard operator at Headquarters, Guangdong garrison.†   (source)
  • Lee claimed his last words to Washington were, "Draw off the garrison, or they will be lost."†   (source)
  • The drums will beat from here to Antium, alerting every guardhouse and garrison that I've escaped.†   (source)
  • They came in on tight Garrison didoes, skimming the peaks; I barely saw the chop-off for Luna City.†   (source)
  • As for the garrison, the Old Bear had taken two hundred on his ranging.†   (source)
  • I can deliver that castle to you, and its garrison as well.†   (source)
  • If she wants to feel safe, tell her to bring down her garrison from Stokeworth.†   (source)
  • The slavers would turn out the whole garrison in the city's defense.†   (source)
  • Winterfell is the heart of the land, but how am I to hold it without a garrison?†   (source)
  • Mirra and I set fire to an Empire garrison—†   (source)
  • They're not from Guangdong, not from the garrison.†   (source)
  • He had ordered out two hundred men, more than half the garrison of Castle Black.†   (source)
  • "The castle does them no good," the armorer told his little garrison.†   (source)
  • Little Walder pushed him stumbling past the long tables where the men of the garrison were eating.†   (source)
  • I've sent word to Heiman Tallhart to join him with the garrison Robb left at the Twins—†   (source)
  • A man at the Guangdong garrison named Soo Jiang.†   (source)
  • I drew your garrison away with feints and raids and secondary attacks.†   (source)
  • The men of your garrison will be free to enter my service or to return unmolested to their homes.†   (source)
  • I am putting a garrison in Icemark and giving you command of it.†   (source)
  • Garrison duty is for old men and green boys.†   (source)
  • We are the garrison, Jon told himself, and look at us.†   (source)
  • They will help us garrison our abandoned castles, the better to defend the Wall.†   (source)
  • The garrison numbered no more than a hundred men, so small a troop that they were lost in Harrenhal.†   (source)
  • Victarion will leave the best part of his garrison, —I'd guess.†   (source)
  • I have the honor to be Lord Wyman's cousin and commander of his garrison.†   (source)
  • In return for all we've given you, grant me the men to fill out the garrisons.†   (source)
  • Only until such time as the garrison returns.†   (source)
  • Whenever Lord Bolton took a meal with the garrison, Arya would see them there among the rest.†   (source)
  • I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.†   (source)
  • His uncle Leobald will remain, with some small garrison.†   (source)
  • I agree these castles must be garrisoned-=†   (source)
  • Once inside the walls, Bywater is to expel the garrison and hold Tommen there safe.†   (source)
  • All garrisoned with free folk, under the command of our own officers.†   (source)
  • They were too small to hold much of a garrison.†   (source)
  • He hoped the two new garrisons would make a difference.†   (source)
  • A good man to command a garrison, but not a man to love.†   (source)
  • Shitmouth had enough crumbs in his beard to feed the garrison.†   (source)
  • I'll have my mail scoured clean, and my garrison assembled in the yard.†   (source)
  • Only three were now garrisoned, a fact that Mance Rayder knew as well as they did.†   (source)
  • Jaime tossed Hoat's head to Peck, and turned to address the garrison.†   (source)
  • Raff, gather the garrison together in the Hall of a Hundred Hearths.†   (source)
  • What think you of the garrison at Osgiliath?†   (source)
  • The Petersburg garrison has joined the insurgents!†   (source)
  • We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children.†   (source)
  • The rest of my company I sent south to strengthen the garrison at the fords of Osgiliath.†   (source)
  • He can scarcely object to an offer to augment his garrison ...but make certain you give the command to a man you can trust.†   (source)
  • A creeping, subterranean existence in this house, supported by Momma, watching game shows and soap operas all day on television at Mrs. Garrison's house when she had Carrie In To Visit (Mrs. Garrison was eighty-six), walking down to the Center to get a malted after supper at the Kelly Fruit when it was deserted, getting fatter, losing hope, losing even the power to think?†   (source)
  • She described what had happened at the fort—the voice of Gaea, the spiders in the garrison, the Mark burning them away.†   (source)
  • The garrison door burst open.†   (source)
  • Theon Greyjoy was seated on a bench in Riverrun's Great Hall, enjoying a horn of ale and regaling her father's garrison with an account of the slaughter in the Whispering Wood.†   (source)
  • One night he bombarded Riohacha from a schooner and the garrison dragged out of bed and shot the fourteen best-known Liberals in the town as a reprisal.†   (source)
  • New orders, signed by the garrison commander himself, have been posted on doors and market stalls and lampposts.†   (source)
  • Three days later, Madame Fontineau overhears that the German garrison commander is allergic to goldenrod.†   (source)
  • When you get outside the towns and garrison villages, it's every bit as terrible a place as Salusa Secundus.†   (source)
  • At dawn on the first of October Colonel Aureliano Buendia attacked Macondo with a thousand well-armed men and the garrison received orders to resist to the end.†   (source)
  • Tuesday at midnight in a mad operation, twenty-one men under the age of thirty commanded by Aureliano Buendia, armed with table knives and sharpened tools, took the garrison by surprise, seized the weapons, and in the courtyard executed the captain and the four soldiers who had killed the woman.†   (source)
  • Across the river mouth, beneath four feet of concrete, an aide holds open the garrison commander's jacket as the colonel swings one arm through one sleeve, then the other.†   (source)
  • They had repair depots in every garrison village, and their accounts show a heavy expenditure for shield replacements and parts.†   (source)
  • One week before the agreement was announced, and in the midst of a storm of contradictory rumors, Colonel Aureliano Buendia and ten trusted officers, among them Colonel Roque Carnicero, stealthily arrived in Macondo after midnight, dismissed the garrison, buried their weapons, and destroyed their records.†   (source)
  • He had been at Tsimpo, a garrison village, buffer outpost for the former capital city, Carthag, when the reports of attack began arriving.†   (source)
  • If the people of this decadent garrison city could only see the Emperor's private note to his "Noble Duke"—the disdainful allusions to veiled men and women: " ....but what else is one to expect of barbarians whose dearest dream is to live outside the ordered security of the faufreluches?"†   (source)
  • Major General William F. Garrison, JSOC commander, had thrown the BS flag on all the promises we made when we tried to win assignments.†   (source)
  • Both SEALs and Delta wanted to be chosen for every mission, so we all had been promising Garrison we could do anything.†   (source)
  • That was kind of typical of Garrison.†   (source)
  • After twenty-five pints of blood and one hundred stitches, General Garrison flew Leopard to a hospital in Germany.†   (source)
  • We suspected that Delta had tried to disqualify us from the op. General Garrison gave the op to us anyway.†   (source)
  • He was well out of the range of what General Garrison had made all of us focus on: the shots we could hit every time.†   (source)
  • Under General Garrison's orders, Casanova and I rode with Steve (a Delta sniper working a lot with military intelligence), Commander Assad, and Assad's Pakistani troops.†   (source)
  • Condor called General Garrison.†   (source)
  • We reported to General Garrison.†   (source)
  • The black ball was a sight with a platform that contained a TeleVision System, a Thermal Imaging System, and a Laser Range Finder/Designator to provide audio and video of the ground to General Garrison at the Joint Operations Center.†   (source)
  • And when you hold Anvard you sit in the very gate of Narnia, and your garrison in Anvard can be increased by little and little till it is a great host.†   (source)
  • Almost the first thing Jon Snow had done as Lord Commander was institute daily archery drill for the entire garrison, even stewards and cooks.†   (source)
  • Lord Stannis and a small garrison had held the castle for close to a year, against the great host of the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne.†   (source)
  • Fort Ticonderoga had fallen, abandoned by its American garrison, and enemy troops were pressing steadily on, hacking their way through the wilderness to reach the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • Increased taxes, emptied garrisons, horses and oxen confiscated throughout the Empire ....It seems that Galbatorix gathers his forces in preparation to confront us, though I cannot tell whether he means to do it in offense or defense.†   (source)
  • Also, Galbatorix garrisoned Aroughs with a fair number of soldiers—more than twice what we have—in addition to their usual contingent.†   (source)
  • They weren't the garrison from Kahlia; like the soldiers we'd met earlier, they were dressed in the colors of the Queen's Guard.†   (source)
  • She's not much worried about an assault, and she keeps only a minimal garrison of her private guard at Ephrata.†   (source)
  • Every girl says in unison, "Garrison!"†   (source)
  • One particularly impor-tant memorial, calling for the withdrawal of British garrisons from the Northwest, as agreed in the Treaty of Paris, went unanswered for three months.†   (source)
  • The soldier looked at the sign on the hospital's wrought-iron gate, and then, with the deep depression of a private who has drawn garrison duty and been doomed to spend the most adventuresome period of his life as an office boy, opened the top of the caisson and took out a large package.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix has gone to oversee the final placement of Uru'baen's defenses andto discuss strategy with Lord Barst, who has command of the army now that it's garrisoned here in the city.†   (source)
  • From the time the cholera proclamation was issued, the local garrison shot a cannon from the fortress every quarter hour, day and night, in accordance with the local superstition that gunpowder purified the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • He commands the federal troops, provides for forts and garrisons, confers military ranks, and he is admiral-general.†   (source)
  • By the time the four survivors of the garrison began to reassemble the pieces of their consciousness, their figures were stretched on the floor, bound and gagged; the fifth one was left standing, his hands tied behind his back.†   (source)
  • The Marines suffered a shocking 4,400 casualties in just seventy-two hours of fighting as they wiped out the entire Japanese garrison of 5,000.†   (source)
  • But by the time they reached the first settlement, a former Soviet garrison named Pol-e-Kamri, both roadside restaurants were shuttered for the day.†   (source)
  • A Garrison orbit, huh?†   (source)
  • Though Waziristan has been nominally a part of Pakistan since 1947, the little influence Islamabad has ever had on the Wazir has been the product of bribes distributed to tribal leaders and fortresslike army garrisons with little control over anything out of sight of their gun slits.†   (source)
  • If we don't want to be defenseless, we will need to increase our frontier garrisons as our Western settlements increase.†   (source)
  • How had the Italians handled VD in the troops who couldn't possibly have confined themselves to the six Italian ladies in Asmara who were the official garrison puttanas?†   (source)
  • Howlin' Mad observed: "We thought it would blast any island off the military map, level every defense, no matter how strong, and wipe out the garrison.†   (source)
  • The full garrison at Fort Stirling on Brooklyn Heights also had orders to stay through the night, as cover against an attack by enemy ships.†   (source)
  • At a council of war on October 16, it was decided that Fort Washington and its garrison should be, in the words of the brief minutes, "retained as long as possible."†   (source)
  • Until our navy is fully established, moderate garrisons will be an indispensable security against destructive attacks on arsenals and dockyards, and sometimes the fleet itself.†   (source)
  • Navy will Replace Some Garrisons†   (source)
  • It was three o'clock when Magaw capitulated, and about four when the entire garrison of 2,837 Americans marched out of the fort between two lines of Hessians and lay down their arms.†   (source)
  • People were chosen, again indiscriminately, and charged with stealing supplies and equipment from the garrison.†   (source)
  • 'Even I've done that for targets ...I can take the unexpected bullet but I can't take the Hong Kong garrison.†   (source)
  • Told he had two hours to make up his mind, Magaw responded at once with a written reply: Sir, if I rightly understand the purport of your message ...'this post is to be immediately surrendered or the garrison put to the sword.'†   (source)
  • The crushing defeat at Fort Washington, the capture of its garrison, plus quantities of arms, tools, tents, blankets, and some 146 brass and iron cannon, had been accomplished by the British and Hessians in a matter of hours.†   (source)
  • 'She's been instructed to call someone either here at the garrison or in Beijing confirming that we've crossed over.†   (source)
  • By the time Washington had reigned in his horse and called off the pursuit, another part of the army had entered the town, where some Zoo of the British garrisoned there had barricaded themselves inside the large stone main building of the college, Nassau Hall.†   (source)
  • It's called a telephone and I didn't think there'd be communications from Macao to the Guangdong garrison if you didn't have scramblers.†   (source)
  • Twice during the flight they had been challenged by radio, once from the Nationalist garrison on Quemoy, the other from a patrol plane out of Raoping.†   (source)
  • But if you try to take it, the next thing you'll see is a cell in the Hong Kong garrison, and — according to you — a scaffold, a thick rope and a hangman in your immediate future.'†   (source)
  • The garrison is mine Perhaps I cannot burn you without the king's consent, but who is to say you might not suffer a fall.†   (source)
  • And from the snatches of conversation that he could hear, they spoke Mandarin, not Cantonese, which was the normal dialect for soldiers, even officers, of the Guangdong garrison.†   (source)
  • The garrison had not returned, and there was no way to know just where they were, or even whether the riders that Noye had sent out had reached them.†   (source)
  • The Guangdong garrison, perhaps?†   (source)
  • If I fail, Ramsay will send me back to that, but first he 11flay the skin from another finger "How many of the garrison are left?"†   (source)
  • Janos Slynt, Lord of Harrenhal, and commander here at Castle Black until such time as Bowen Marsh returns with his garrison.†   (source)
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