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  • He marched into the dining room where the dressmaker's dummy maintained its sentinel position over my mother's sewing machine; a few dressmaking materials were still spread out on the dining-room table; a drawing of a new pattern was pinned down flat on the table by a pair of shears.†   (source)
  • Will threaded their way through a thicket, then started up the slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows what a Sentinel looks like, because no one wants to meet them.†   (source)
  • And she would stand straight as a sentinel, until three times her eyesight failed her and Bing turned into a dark spot of churning seaweed.†   (source)
  • It was a sliver of the Orlando Sentinel, half straight edges and half ripped.†   (source)
  • When dawn came, the dragon was sitting atop his bedpost, like an ancient sentinel welcoming the new day.†   (source)
  • Bleecker was perched on the edge of the porch, a pudgy but proud sentinel—Private Tryhard.†   (source)
  • The rug, now rolled up for the season, stood in one corner like a sentinel on guard duty.†   (source)
  • In the backyard the trees stand sentinel around us, frozen branches like figurines of hollow glass, an inch of a fine white powder piled atop each one.†   (source)
  • Then, as I drew nearer, he revealed himself as a German shepherd, sleek and black, a silent sentinel guarding the driveway of a big white house.†   (source)
  • But dwarfing it all was a massive range of mountains that hovered above and behind, like sentinels standing guard.†   (source)
  • Jenny worked as a feature writer in the Post's "Accent" section; I was a news reporter at the competing paper in the area, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, based an hour south in Fort Lauderdale.†   (source)
  • I saw Sam and Jared, one on either side of the road like sentinels, as I raced up the road toward Forks.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the cart would be a tank, as he passed cautiously through rows of armed cling peaches and silent sentinels that looked like boxes of Frosted Flakes.†   (source)
  • That was why they took the bells off the goats, bells that the Arabs had swapped them for macaws, and put them at the entrance to town at the disposal of those who would not listen to the advice and entreaties of the sentinels and insisted on visiting the town.†   (source)
  • Strings of prayer flags were strung across the hillsides, and ancient Buddhist chortens* and walls of exquisitely carved mani' stones stood sentinel over even the highest passes.†   (source)
  • It had brought a stillness to the basin so unuttered that the blue-milk moonlight could almost be heard flowing across sentinel saguaro and spiked paintbrush.†   (source)
  • None of the sentinel monkeys became sick.†   (source)
  • In the woods, in the bitter cold, on the surface of a boundless sea, whispering her name, entrusting her memory to the wind, to the embrace of the silent sentinel trees and to the care of the faithful stars, her namesake, pure and everlasting, the uncontained universe contained in her: Cassiopeia.†   (source)
  • Very slowly, hardly daring to breathe, they made their way up to a little clump of trees which was not more than forty feet away from the sentinel.†   (source)
  • The walls of Blackcliff rise around us like impassive sentinels.†   (source)
  • Moody had told me that Tehran was famed for this impressive tower that stood like a sentinel on the outskirts of the city.†   (source)
  • Flanking him were the tall, eerie mummers that had originally arrived with Prusias but remained behind to serve as silent, ever-present sentinels at Gravenmuir's gates.†   (source)
  • This sort of storm is so severe that it cannot even be looked against, and by the snow freezing as fast as it falls, baffles all resistance—for the blocks become choked, the tackle encrusted, the ropes and sails quite congealed, and the whole ship before long one cake of ice....Indeed, if the severity of the winters be such in this climate that the sentinel on shore is frequently found frozen to death upon his post, though relieved every half hour, the reader may frame some idea of what the seamen of a watch, especially in small vessels, must suffer.†   (source)
  • Dawson remained frozen as her figure receded, winding through the sentinel gravestones until she eventually vanished from sight.†   (source)
  • You cannot cross the rivers again, and behind you there are now secret sentinels that you cannot pass.†   (source)
  • By the base of the brooding eight-hundred-foot-high Karpocho, or Rock of Skardu, with its ruined fort standing sentinel over the town, the Bedford slowed to let a flock of sheep cross Skardu's bazaar.†   (source)
  • The creatures squatted like sentinels along the tree line, gazing at him with blank red eyes set like jewels on either side of their long black snouts.†   (source)
  • It was plainly evident that the old sentinel was no danger.†   (source)
  • There was some unrest with Attolia then, and the king had sentinels posted here.†   (source)
  • Sentinels with bayonets stood on the landings of the fire-stairways.†   (source)
  • Newly aroused sentinels straggled out lazily, unevenly, carelessly.†   (source)
  • Out of the thin blood-filtered light, into the hallway where a funerary stillness of shadows stood sentinel, toward the enormous chandelier that hung in a perpetual crystal rain above the foyer staircase, he ran.†   (source)
  • Night had fallen over Alicante, and the stars shone down like bright sentinels, making the demon towers, and the water in the canals—half ice now—shimmer.†   (source)
  • Nearby, silhouetted like a sentinel against the orange-red flames was another engine, one propeller blade pointed skyward.†   (source)
  • He went around reading the gravestones, many Dutch names, ghostA ly sentinels, tipped his hat in respect, thought of his own death" tested his body, still sound, still trustable through a long night, but weaker, noticeably weaker, the heart uneven, the breath failing.†   (source)
  • My boys went out with flashlights and shotguns to clear our path; they were always on sentinel duty when we baptized someone at night.†   (source)
  • One will be a sentinel over the other.†   (source)
  • Still, her milk box sentinel, when she settled back into it, seemed even lonelier for her having yet one more thing to keep to herself.†   (source)
  • Deep maroon in color, its plastic front cover sprang up on hinges to form the antenna, standing sentinel over the little tube-and-battery-filled chassis small enough to be balanced easily in the palm of a man's hand.†   (source)
  • Then, like a blackstone sentinel, he stood for a while beside the loop of the billabongs, gazing into the desert, interpreting sounds that the children couldn't even hear.†   (source)
  • At various times during the day, the alarm would alert various sentinels.†   (source)
  • You ought to get up and look at it," and the child would scowl and not answer or glare up once across the lawn and two front pastures to the gray-blue sentinel line of trees and then begin to read again with no change of expression, sometimes muttering for meanness, "It looks like a fire.†   (source)
  • Therefore, my heart saluted him when I saw him standing alone, a sentinel waving frantically beneath the stand of oaks beside the school, asking for quiet, for attention, for anything that would let him assume command and control of a situation that he could not control.†   (source)
  • Deep in the end of the back yard, the blossoming peach tree shone like a celestial sentinel.†   (source)
  • The Sentinel, owned and edited by Horatio Duckett, came out on Tuesdays.†   (source)
  • The gaunt shadows of Band Society music stands and instrument cases stood around like sentinels.†   (source)
  • Harry's Patronus stood sentinel before the golden grilles as they shut and the lifts began to rise.†   (source)
  • The sentinel glared back, his colorful costume belying his decidedly ominous air.†   (source)
  • Then he turns to a Sentinel, shorter than the others.†   (source)
  • I could tell it was the Sentinel because one ripped edge read "do Sentinel May 6, 2."†   (source)
  • "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall.†   (source)
  • And each in turn then left, until none remained except the burning blue sentinels and the animals.†   (source)
  • The turret was crumbling and in disrepair, but it was still a stern sentinel over the valley.†   (source)
  • The wooden portico was diminutive, but it stood in the dark like a dour sentinel.†   (source)
  • Theon Greyjoy stood beside a sentinel tree, his bow in hand.†   (source)
  • It takes everything I have not to strike the Sentinel.†   (source)
  • "Exactly," Langdon said, quickly turning up Via Sentinel toward the archives.†   (source)
  • When Tyros calls out, ordering the skin healer Sentinel to come down, they mutter to each other.†   (source)
  • He went to the tree, a vaulting grey-green sentinel, and began to climb.†   (source)
  • Langdon hastened diagonally across the Courtyard of the Sentinel.†   (source)
  • They finally found him fast asleep in the upper branches of the tallest sentinel in the grove.†   (source)
  • Red pinpricks appear on Farley's arm, around the Sentinel's hand.†   (source)
  • "Sentinel Tyros, you are needed," she says flatly.†   (source)
  • He turned sharply and maneuvered his chair around the sentinels.†   (source)
  • His face pressed hard against the trunk of the sentinel.†   (source)
  • He rips open the Sentinel's eyelids and sings, ordering him to wake up.†   (source)
  • The Sentinel forces Farley to her knees, waiting for her next order.†   (source)
  • She laughs, but screams again as the Sentinel resumes her torture.†   (source)
  • Slowly, the Sentinel peels away Farley's blood-soaked sleeve and sets pale, cruel hands to her skin.†   (source)
  • The new Sentinel heals her quickly, hands moving in a practiced fashion.†   (source)
  • The Sentinel nods and seizes Farley by the wrist, pulling her out of the cell.†   (source)
  • Behind us, the Sentinel continues to work, moving up Farley's arm.†   (source)
  • Another Sentinel, a Skonos skin healer, drops down next to Farley.†   (source)
  • What I ordered the Sentinel to do, was for the dead, for justice.†   (source)
  • Sentinel Gliacon, I find myself in need of some ice.†   (source)
  • But Julian is too quick, even for a Sentinel.†   (source)
  • The Sentinel is not gentle, wrenching out Farley's wounded arm.†   (source)
  • A Sentinel stands over me, watching with flat eyes.†   (source)
  • A Sentinel tosses him a handgun, and he catches it deftly, putting a finger to the trigger.†   (source)
  • He addresses a Sentinel, but the masked woman doesn't even flinch.†   (source)
  • What happens when Sentinels start rounding them up for punishment when they can't find you?†   (source)
  • Not even the Sentinels can stop him as he strides forward, moving quickly with practiced motions.†   (source)
  • Sentinels and Security guard the immense door, their guns raised and aimed at the passageway.†   (source)
  • The girls need a good night of sleep, and Sentinels would give any lady bad dreams.†   (source)
  • Back in the passageway, a group of Sentinels waits to escort us upstairs.†   (source)
  • Sentinels and Security follow, like a cloud of red-and-black smoke trailing behind his flame.†   (source)
  • Cal nods at the Sentinels when they open his cell.†   (source)
  • Even with the Sentinels and Security all around, she's still with us.†   (source)
  • Strangely, she's alone, with no Sentinels to guard her.†   (source)
  • The escape left holes in the memories of many Sentinels, as well as the video logs.†   (source)
  • "The Sentinels from last night have been reassigned," Maven mutters as we walk along a deck.†   (source)
  • She sweeps out, two Sentinels in tow, like a hurricane of rage.†   (source)
  • I turn to see an approaching wall of red and orange and I know—the Sentinels have found me.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels stay with him, following when he goes the opposite way from his wife.†   (source)
  • To my delight, Maven and I have a transport to ourselves, joined by only two Sentinels.†   (source)
  • Above us, Sentinels crowd a wraparound landing, lining the walls.†   (source)
  • A troop of Sentinels guards the king and queen, both waiting for us.†   (source)
  • There will be Sentinels down there, too many for Julian to take care of on his own.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels straighten at his presence, both inclining their heads in his direction.†   (source)
  • When Queen Elara appears around the corner, her own Sentinels in tow, Lucas sweeps into a bow.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels jump to attention and pull Farley back into the broken cell.†   (source)
  • I don't have much time until Lucas or, worse, the Sentinels, find me.†   (source)
  • At the sight of me, the four Sentinels exchange glances, questioning one another.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the red-orange uniforms of Sentinels blaze from almost every box.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels lead the way through the maze of passages in the upper levels of the palace.†   (source)
  • Officers, Sentinels, soldiers, they're all chasing, coming for us.†   (source)
  • I didn't expect Sentinels to be so stupid, but it makes sense.†   (source)
  • "Very well, sir," the Sentinels say in unison, unable to refuse a prince.†   (source)
  • Two Sentinels stand over me, their eyes dark behind their masks.†   (source)
  • And then we're moving, walking into a building with too many Sentinels and attendants to count.†   (source)
  • The residence halls crawl with Sentinels and Security, every one of them on edge.†   (source)
  • She doesn't direct her command at anyone in particular, but four Sentinels break off from the group.†   (source)
  • The masked Sentinels on the edge of my vision are a constant reminder of my new position.†   (source)
  • Instead, Cal leads us up, to a room with no windows and no Sentinels.†   (source)
  • And then he turns, his shoulders squared to a group of Sentinels.†   (source)
  • She stares at the fallen Sentinels, jaw agape.†   (source)
  • Two Sentinels, their uniforms the color of fire, crash through a mirror and charge at me.†   (source)
  • This must be some kind of training, for Security or Sentinels.†   (source)
  • State your name and business!" one of the Sentinels shouts up at us.†   (source)
  • And I don't share my business with Sentinels.†   (source)
  • No one saw your face, I checked with the Sentinels.†   (source)
  • Security, Sentinels, soldiers, all of them pour onto the sand from every gate.†   (source)
  • The dungeon rises to greet us, and no less than six Sentinels stand guard.†   (source)
  • I can feel them, hunting like the Sentinels not so far behind me.†   (source)
  • It must be the next morning when the Sentinels arrive, led by Arven himself.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels usher us into a box with no windows and harsh lighting.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger sat sentinel over him for perhaps an hour after, thinking his long, sober thoughts.†   (source)
  • On their ramparts, wisps of fog moved like ghostly sentinels.†   (source)
  • The woman, whom I guessed was his mother, stood over us like a sentinel.†   (source)
  • The sentinel at the door started, and looked very surprised, when he saw him.†   (source)
  • The lower branches of the great green sentinel shed their burden of snow with a soft wet plop.†   (source)
  • frail and fleeting as little leaves, under the enduring shadow of the sentinels of Numenor.†   (source)
  • As night came on, sentinels by the water's edge reported regularly on the half hour, "All's well."†   (source)
  • The trees stood tall, like sentinels intent on keeping the sand from encroaching.†   (source)
  • The corridors were deserted except for armed sentinels posted at the turns.†   (source)
  • No one ought to be up, save the sentinels, and the sentinels were stationed nowhere near his tent.†   (source)
  • As they rode up a sentinel challenged them.†   (source)
  • The pines and sentinels gave way to huge dark oaks.†   (source)
  • Snowflakes drifted down soundlessly to cloak the soldier pines and sentinels in white.†   (source)
  • You think the scarecrow sentinels scared them off, my lord?†   (source)
  • To command the snowy sentinels on the walls, the squires had erected a dozen snowy lords.†   (source)
  • ' He stepped up beside the silent sentinel on the dark edge.†   (source)
  • Huge bare oaks, tall sentinels, and hosts of soldier pines stood all around them.†   (source)
  • 'This is good tidings beyond hope,' said the sentinel.†   (source)
  • "The scarecrow sentinels," Donal Noye called them.†   (source)
  • It will not be enough to put sentinels round the tower, I fear.†   (source)
  • In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly.†   (source)
  • The seventy-nine sentinels, they're called.†   (source)
  • The sentinel hailed him as he went by, and he recognized the voice of Beregond.†   (source)
  • The sworn sentinels of Vatican City.†   (source)
  • High atop her roof, almost three hundred feet in the air, the Statue of Freedom peered out into the misty darkness like a ghostly sentinel.†   (source)
  • Two aged crab apple trees, bent with the wind, stripped of leaves but still heavy with berry-sized red fruits and bushy crowns of white beaded mistletoe, stood sentinel on either side of the front door.†   (source)
  • He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket.†   (source)
  • The Sun-Sentinel's account of the crime ran in the briefs column on page 3B beneath the headline "Man Attacks Girl."†   (source)
  • But it was the row of paint-chipped file cabinets, standing like sentinels against the back wall of the workshop, that drew him most.†   (source)
  • The wild, haunting cry of a loon echoing across the lake seemed to signal the end of the celebration, and the sentinels vanished in unison.†   (source)
  • My paper, the Sun-Sentinel, was the dominant newspaper in Boca Raton, far outpacing the Miami Herald, the Palm Beach Post, or even the local Boca Raton News in circulation.†   (source)
  • There were more dementors in here, casting their freezing aura over the place; they stood like faceless sentinels in the corners farthest from the high, raised platform.†   (source)
  • We have sentinels placed at the entrance of the valley you traveled through-on either side of the Beartooth River.†   (source)
  • The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground.†   (source)
  • The sentinel nodded.†   (source)
  • This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself.†   (source)
  • He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.†   (source)
  • The best way was to start from the godswood, shinny up the tall sentinel, and cross over the armory and the guards hall, leaping roof to roof, barefoot so the guards wouldn't hear you overhead.†   (source)
  • The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls.†   (source)
  • The maester had taught him all the banners: the mailed fist of the Glovers, silver on scarlet; Lady Mormont's black bear; the hideous flayed man that went before Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort; a bull moose for the Hornwoods; a battle-axe for the Cerwyns; three sentinel trees for the Tallharts; and the fearsome sigil of House Umber, a roaring giant in shattered chains.†   (source)
  • Hodor made his way through the dense stands of oak and ironwood and sentinels, to the still pool beside the heart tree.†   (source)
  • No, they were too close, they'd hear him for a certainty, and if they were from Castle Black ... He led the mare off the road, behind a thick stand of grey-green sentinels.†   (source)
  • Tyrion had heard that elsewhere along the Wall, between the three fortresses, the wildwood had come creeping back over the decades, that there were places where grey-green sentinels and pale white weirwoods had taken root in the shadow of the Wall itself, but Castle Black had a prodigious appetite for firewood, and here the forest was still kept at bay by the axes of the black brothers.†   (source)
  • I jump at every shadow, expecting an officer or a Sentinel to step out into the hall, but no one does.†   (source)
  • Sentinel Gliacon, may I have a word?†   (source)
  • Sentinel Provos, Sentinel Viper.†   (source)
  • "I would like a private audience with these"—I throw as much disgust into my voice as I can; it's not hard, with the pig-eyed Sentinel standing so close—"creatures.†   (source)
  • The Sentinel shot me.†   (source)
  • Nothing, Sentinel Skonos.†   (source)
  • Sentinel Gliacon.†   (source)
  • I see Security and Sentinels in every dark corner, waiting to capture and kill us like they did my brother.†   (source)
  • The Sentinels on the landing have their guns aimed while more blur along, barely shadows as they give chase.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, it looks like the structure is bleeding, as uniformed Sentinels drop down from their boxes, all of them racing after me.†   (source)
  • I expect to see Sentinels, Cal, or a murderous Ptolemus ready to rip me apart for what I've done, but it's just the maids bustling in my closet.†   (source)
  • "Sentinels sworn to my mother man the cameras, trust me, they aren't what we should be worrying about," Maven says, almost tripping over his words.†   (source)
  • He took a band of Sentinels with him.†   (source)
  • The power outages, the failing security system, not to mention a troop of Sentinels with blank spots across their memories.†   (source)
  • But the Sentinels and the soldiers are not so easily frightened, and they come to their senses quickly.†   (source)
  • But above them, in the carved window alcoves and little balconies near the ceiling, the shadows are not Sentinels at all.†   (source)
  • Silhouetted against the Sentinels and the bodies on the floor, he looks like another person entirely.†   (source)
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