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a military post or the troops stationed thereMore rarely, garrison can be used as a verb to reference the placing of troops at a post.
- the US Army Garrison in Seoul, Korea
- American soldiers have been garrisoned in Germany since the end of the Second World War.
- Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.Acts 21:31 (NKJV)
- 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.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of The Mohicans
- At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.1 Chronicles 11:16 (NIV)
- In any of our towns of garrison.Shakespeare -- King Henry VI, Part 1
- And just to think of a garrison hospital gives one the creeps.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Anyway, the four of us were all that was necessary to beat their garrison.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- The troops, too, were regrouped in such barracks as had not been requisitioned, and settled down to the garrison life of the past.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- That is why we always keep it garrisoned, ready for use.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The armed brethren, too, kept watch, and reliev'd as methodically as in any garrison town.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
- The orphanage was in a garrison town and was, as it were, sponsored by the Red Army.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The ostler must have called out the town garrison without counting his horses first.Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
- The first was a man at the Guangdong garrison named Soo Jiang-'Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- He still wore a garrison belt with a longhorn buckle.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- None of which we cared about, as looked as if that Garrison landing had wasted Prof.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Ten years ago was the time, a garrison town in Cyprus the place.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- One half-naked kid with a garrison cap clonked on the marimba; the little black rubber balls on his sticks struck fast.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Capt. Yes, it is already garrison'd.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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