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  • She didn't allow anyone to help her along the way, only resting a couple of times in the abandoned sentry posts.†   (source)
  • My father holds the door open on the twentieth floor and stands like a sentry as every Abnegation walks past him.†   (source)
  • She was a sentry.†   (source)
  • He follows past company houses and the sentry at the bottom of the hill to where the mining officials reside.†   (source)
  • Photographs of Daweses and Cabots stood sentry on the night table.†   (source)
  • In her bedroom at 80 Front Street, my mother kept a dressmaker's dummy; it stood at attention next to her bed, like a servant about to awaken her, like a sentry guarding her while she slept—like a lover about to get into bed beside her.†   (source)
  • Your father made sure that each of Endovier's sentries could shoot a squirrel from two hundred paces away.†   (source)
  • Sentries were drafted into rotating shifts to watch the front and rear of the house.†   (source)
  • He stood staring out in the darkness, watching the moon and the stars perhaps, or perhaps the sentries on the wall.†   (source)
  • Cinder sought out the cluster of slender blue glass and chrome buildings that stood sentry over the market square, then tried to trace the roads north, searching for the Phoenix Tower apartments, but they were tucked behind too much city and too many shadows.†   (source)
  • Slumped like drugged sentries asleep at the gates of Paradise.†   (source)
  • Sentries had spotted us coming, and when we reached the dirt road that led into the woods to the camp, Hutchfield was there with another guy named Brogden.†   (source)
  • No sentry on the gangplank, no bosun on the bridge, not a light anywhere.†   (source)
  • To reach our apartment building, we had to round a corner by one of the ghetto gates where several guards always stood on sentry duty.†   (source)
  • They headed through the hills, avoiding the tops for fear of being spotted by sentries.†   (source)
  • The sentry was posted high up on the wall beside the belfry.†   (source)
  • No writer ever took such care about food and drink, so marshaled his forces to create a military effect of armies drawn up as if for battle: ranks, files, "rival ends," sentries, squads, sashes.†   (source)
  • On the third day, when he again refuses to take my call, I drive to Lamp and find him up on the landing at the top of the stairs like a sentry, blowing his horn.†   (source)
  • "Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world," he wrote.†   (source)
  • As I neared the gate, a sentry stepped out and blocked my way.†   (source)
  • From our hill the sentry ran toward the compound, probably hoping to find survivors among his friends.†   (source)
  • For example, Painter requested some E-3 Sentries to support you out here.†   (source)
  • Those Taliban night attacks were the very same tactics the mujahideen used against the Russians, sliding through the darkness and cutting the throats of guards and sentries until the Soviet military, and the parents of young soldiers, could stand it no more.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia saw that the sentry could not see.†   (source)
  • He shook his head to drive out the angry thoughts, glanced back at the field where five of his own frigates were posted around the rim like monolithic sentries.†   (source)
  • Mautz is sitting in today, uninvolved, but leaning against the wall near Lemry's desk like a sentry.†   (source)
  • "Halt!" shouted a sentry.†   (source)
  • Jason insisted he was well enough to take sentry duty, along with Coach Hedge, who was still so charged with adrenaline that every time the ship hit turbulence, he swung his bat and yelled, "Die!"†   (source)
  • The false leg stood in the corner like a toy sentry.†   (source)
  • A round stove stands in the middle of the room like a fat sentry on duty.†   (source)
  • He mostly slept in the van during the day and then sat up at night, acting as sentry.†   (source)
  • I could see the mounted Imperial Bodyguard sentries, one on each side of the palace gate.†   (source)
  • In the silence we could hear waves lapping against the stone under our feet, and in the river there were ghosts of reflections from torches set in sconces along the sentry walk above our heads.†   (source)
  • Though he was a good sentry, alert, ever ready to raise Cain, his valor had one flaw: let him glimpse a gun, as he did now-for the intruders were armed-and his head dropped, his tail turned in.†   (source)
  • The tall spires stood sentry over the city as they always had, but instead of reflecting the silver light of the stars, or even the red light of the burning city, they were as dead white as the skin of a corpse.†   (source)
  • British and American sentries alike were fired on repeatedly.†   (source)
  • Stand here, sentry, with your back to the wall.†   (source)
  • He gave Yossarian and Orr generous permission to spend the night on the thick carpet in his office, but shortly after he left a sentry in battle dress appeared and drove them from the building at the tip of his bayonet, and they rode out exhaustedly to the airport with a surly cab driver, who overcharged them, and went to sleep inside the plane again, which was filled now with leaking gunny sacks of cocoa and freshly ground coffee and reeking with an odor so rich that they wer†   (source)
  • The house stood sentry over fields of cotton and corn, and was ringed with live oak trees, trees that had outlived generations of men.†   (source)
  • Dudley lifted his head when I walked in, a worthy sentry.†   (source)
  • As we sped along, he pointed out more sentries on more mountains.†   (source)
  • I will not fear my bladder that wants to explode, he told himself as he sped down past the silent sentries, or my feet that want to turn and flee, and I will not fear the pictures that are running, screaming, through my head.†   (source)
  • I ask, pointing to the darkened wing on the opposite side of the landing where two heavy doors stand sentry, secured by a large lock.†   (source)
  • There are sentries on the wall, and, besides, the whole forest's thick with woodcutters and surveyors cleaning things up and planning the new roads.†   (source)
  • Lucien followed the detective into the room where Lonny sat waiting expectantly with a stout nurse at his side, sentry-like.†   (source)
  • His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night.†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, all of the guards and sentries that might have held them in their flight had gone toward the heart of the conflict at the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • He'd run ahead and was standing in the main drive like a sentry until Sophia brought the car to a stop, then he barked authoritatively before trotting back toward Luke.†   (source)
  • Perhaps protecting me, standing sentry at my door.†   (source)
  • Surely the beasts would have sentries posted.†   (source)
  • The sentry had spotted movement at the army post.†   (source)
  • We reach the watchtower, and the sentries stationed there turn and walk away, as if following a silent order.†   (source)
  • "These are Army-trained sentry dogs," the security man said.†   (source)
  • They stood as sentries, lining the entire top tier with their spears at the ready.†   (source)
  • A RECCE sniper on the backside of the building Steve's team was clearing was looking for roving sentries.†   (source)
  • I'll walk up and down on sentry for a while.'†   (source)
  • She had opened her coat so that the sentries could sec her breasts tipping forward inside the threadbare summer dress.†   (source)
  • They can't risk a cordon of single sentries because there are known to be Fringes people scouting around.†   (source)
  • Drizzt had little trouble escaping the perimeter of the camp, as all of the sentries were rushing off in the direction of the commotion.†   (source)
  • That target behind me — the one you've been missing, number three — is a sentry, armed with everything but an H-bomb.†   (source)
  • A field with high grass was the most logical place to have sentries; the fronds moved when hidden intruders crawled through them.†   (source)
  • To approach the building by foot or car or bicycle one has to cross a bridge over the moat, be accepted by two sentries who unfortunately have to stand exactly where marsh gases collect, and enter the fort's yard.†   (source)
  • Sentries cry out, ordering them to stop.†   (source)
  • Two other men were to remain as sentries.†   (source)
  • There was no sentry on the gangway, no officer of the day to challenge her.†   (source)
  • There was still the lonely sentry on the bridge, and he had turned and was watching Karl.†   (source)
  • He could not tell from whence the sound came, or guess why, but the shots reminded him of a nervous sentry on post cutting loose with his carbine.†   (source)
  • A sentry with a rifle was on duty by this pile; he paced up and down the yard and occasionally went out into the street.†   (source)
  • On the night of March 5, 1770, when an abusive and disorderly mob on State Street in Boston was rashly fired upon by British sentries, John Adams of Massachusetts was already a leader in the protests against British indifference to colonist grievances.†   (source)
  • At the end of a short path, screened off with a curving break of grass, was a narrow sentry-box building, which was the lavatory.†   (source)
  • It's terrible ....Murtagh and Ajihad ....Why didn't sentries in the tunnels warn us of the Urgals?†   (source)
  • They stopped not ten feet behind the sentries.†   (source)
  • It happens to a lot of sentries keeping watch.†   (source)
  • Endovier sentries usually shoot a man down before he's moved three feet.†   (source)
  • Two robotic sentries stood outside the armory's entrance.†   (source)
  • Our sentries spotted the convoy long before it reached the compound.†   (source)
  • The sentries shifted their boots on the floor; one cleared his throat.†   (source)
  • After they entered the gate of Red Coast Base, the two sentries shut the heavy iron doors.†   (source)
  • This time when we crossed over, we had a clear view of the target with no sentries nearby.†   (source)
  • She killed her overseer and twenty-three sentries before they caught her.†   (source)
  • The two men who remained standing paced the ship as if they were sentries.†   (source)
  • The sentries verified the requisition and stepped aside, permitting SD-03 to roll into the cage.†   (source)
  • He saw the other sentries moving among the frightened villagers, spreading the same message.†   (source)
  • As they hurried to obey, he examined the parapet on top of the wall for sentries.†   (source)
  • Then everyone but Gertrude descended belowdecks to hunt for the remaining sentries.†   (source)
  • How had the Scabs managed to pass their sentries on the cliffs undetected?†   (source)
  • Other times he would have sworn they were up on the curtain walls, loping round like sentries.†   (source)
  • I know how to hide myself with magic; the sentries would never see me.†   (source)
  • Wooden watchtowers rose at each corner, manned by sentries with oversized, mounted crossbows.†   (source)
  • Two Earthmen stood one on each side of the arch like sentries, or footmen.†   (source)
  • Sentries were deployed in concentric circles around Barn 43, even, reportedly, perching in trees.†   (source)
  • The number of sentries at gun emplacements was doubled.†   (source)
  • Within seconds the sentries allow them to pass and usher Grant to Sheridan's headquarters.†   (source)
  • The outlaws waited, wondering ... "I best go see what he did to our sentries."†   (source)
  • Only the six sentries on their watchtowers were visible-and some people bustling around the office.†   (source)
  • There were sentries out this way too, but Arya had no trouble avoiding them.†   (source)
  • One of the sentries pulled me along, saying, "Don't worry, the lieutenant has his certain way."†   (source)
  • A dozen isolated individuals on the periphery: sentries.†   (source)
  • "There are sentries, of course," he said.†   (source)
  • The sentries shouted and swiveled their crossbows toward the gorgons.†   (source)
  • Whoever had carved up the ash had eluded his sentries, plainly.†   (source)
  • Their sentries overlook the road and are posted all around the camp.†   (source)
  • Step a little aside here out of earshot of those sentries.†   (source)
  • My mutton-headed uncle had not even troubled to post sentries, it would seem.†   (source)
  • He raised the flag, put sentries at the gates, and sent men into town for provisions.†   (source)
  • Escort Percy so the sentries don't shoot him.†   (source)
  • Seven hundred feet above, the sentries heard and raised their warhorns to their lips.†   (source)
  • Anyway, now we're out here, we may as well go round the sentries.†   (source)
  • If the numbers tallied again the sentries would be removed from the watchtowers.†   (source)
  • No sentries challenged him as he rode past the outbuildings.†   (source)
  • The captain told the sentries they were relieved of their posts for one hour.†   (source)
  • He posted sentries to see that no one left the confines of the village.†   (source)
  • "She said a bird would attack the sentries?" interrupted Woundwort, puzzled.†   (source)
  • The sentries will take care of this mess.†   (source)
  • The sentries yelled, but Percy knew they couldn't get a clear shot.†   (source)
  • But these Efrafan does, you see—they've been kept in by sentries all their lives.†   (source)
  • See if your store gets many customers with these sentries outside.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I want to go round your sentries now.†   (source)
  • They were ready to run when the bird attacked the sentries, and then nothing happened.†   (source)
  • Once Kehaar's attacked the sentries, he can fly back and tell us.†   (source)
  • As soon as he had sent out Speedwell and Hawkbit as sentries, he led Bigwig to one side.†   (source)
  • Look, there's Avens bringing in the sentries—we'll have to go.†   (source)
  • You and Avens are to stay here and get the sentries on duty immediately.†   (source)
  • When I come out with Blackavar, the sentries will be running for cover.†   (source)
  • One of the sentries, Marjoram, told him about the attempted escape by Blackavar.†   (source)
  • As soon as you see me go in, attack the sentries—terrify them, drive them away.†   (source)
  • "But will this bird really attack the sentries?" asked Thethuthinnang.†   (source)
  • He spent some time talking to the sentries and learning how they were organized.†   (source)
  • The sentries came in and the Mark began to go underground.†   (source)
  • Captain Bugloss was out on the bank, with two of his sentries.†   (source)
  • "What are your sentries like, Chervil?" he asked at length.†   (source)
  • It reached the two sentries in the middle of the road and stopped again.†   (source)
  • He knew where the sentries were posted and at first avoided them successfully.†   (source)
  • Mundt nodded, lit a cigarette and gave it to one of the sentries to pass to Leamas.†   (source)
  • Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along the top.†   (source)
  • It is not however close enough to have been spotted by the sentries posted on the walls of Sakiel-Norn.†   (source)
  • Bloody useful things, those Sentries.†   (source)
  • The Blackfish led the van, cutting down our sentries and clearing away the palisades for the main assault.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the table there stood, as sentries to a fruit-stand which upheld a pyramid of oranges and American apples, two squat old-fashioned decanters of cut glass, one containing port and the other dark sherry.†   (source)
  • An officer in a field uniform, ruddy-faced, with very thick glasses and ceremonious manners, signaled to the sentries to withdraw.†   (source)
  • Sentries, a handful of townspeople.†   (source)
  • Last week, two of the men had gone hunting and chased a deer to the foot of Radar Peak without realizing where they were, and the sentries stationed halfway up the peak shot at them.†   (source)
  • Won't there be sentries?†   (source)
  • Navy Orions and air force Sentries had been shadowing them for days now, and the day before, he'd been told, the Soviets had sent an armed fighter from the Kiev to the nearest Sentry.†   (source)
  • Then how is it, at the precise moment you were killing Dr. Pam in Hangar One, two of our sentries were shot, another eviscerated, and a fourth hurled a hundred feet down from his post on the south watchtower?†   (source)
  • On a certain occasion a very beautiful woman had come into his camp in Tucurinca and asked the sentries' permission to see him.†   (source)
  • Two more sentries filed in, followed by Madam Lockton, breathing hard, and a tall gentleman I'd not seen before.†   (source)
  • The sentries slipped into the hall.†   (source)
  • Chaol stopped before a door and informed the six sentries posted outside to watch the women and the princess's guards.†   (source)
  • She seemed so inoffensive that the sentries let her pass without any questions as another vendor, one of the many who often arrived from the towns in the swamp.†   (source)
  • Yang waited until the others were gone and indicated that Ye should follow him a little distance away from the gate, clearly trying to avoid the sentries listening in.†   (source)
  • The sentries blocked her way.†   (source)
  • He had to be careful with his subordinates, and had to speak politely even to the sentries, lest he be deemed to have an intellectual's resistant attitude toward thought reform and collaboration with the masses.†   (source)
  • The soldiers had already gone to bed, except for four sentries who patrolled the perimeter of the gray tents.†   (source)
  • In a flash, Roran and Uthar burst into the open and struck the sentries on the head before they could draw their sabers.†   (source)
  • Horst quietly issued orders, sending Albriech and Delwin to ambush two of the sentries, and Parr and Roran to ambush the other two.†   (source)
  • Near the dock, they hid behind a warehouse and watched the two lights carried by sentries bob around the deck of the ship.†   (source)
  • Thus, the Varden managed to cross three-quarters of the no-man's-land before they were seen by the Empire's sentries.†   (source)
  • Their tents formed a low gray block that flickered with weird shadows as sentries patrolled the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Not three minutes later, Roran heard the scuff of Birgit's boots above him as she walked to the end of the pier, opposite the middle of the Dragon Wing, and then the faint sound of her voice as she engaged the sentries in conversation.†   (source)
  • Roran and Uthar stripped to their breeches, tied the rope and clubs around their waists-Roran left his hammer behind-and then ran farther down the wharf, out of the sentries' sight, where they lowered themselves into the frigid water.†   (source)
  • Only sentries, I expect.†   (source)
  • Once the team had eliminated the sentries and taken strategic positions, Max's instructions had been to wait for the team leader's signal.†   (source)
  • Jaime set the sentries himself.†   (source)
  • Up top, the sentries would be huddling in the warming shed around a brazier, shouting to be heard above the wind.†   (source)
  • When I tilt my head back, though, I can see the line of buildings along Michigan Avenue, like a row of sentries keeping watch over us.†   (source)
  • There could be sentries nearby.†   (source)
  • At each post, sentries pulled aside the sedan's curtains and studied the large, sweating foreigner in the ridiculous ill-fitting outfit, and each time, Khan reached into the pocket of the leather aviator jacket he wore despite the heat and counted out enough rupees to keep the car moving south.†   (source)
  • She is the minotaur of this long journey back—all those preparations for travel, the journey through Africa, the recent 7-hour train ride from Colombo to Jaffna, the sentries, the high walls of stone, and now this lazy courtesy of meals, tea, her best brandy in the evenings for my bad stomach—the minotaur who inhabits the place one had been years ago, who surprises one with conversations about the original circle of love.†   (source)
  • The mounted sentries stared straight ahead, their mounts disciplined and still, only the horses' skin twitching.†   (source)
  • For several minutes, he allowed himself to bask in the admiration of his men, until he heard a loud warning cry from one of the sentries stationed at the edge of the camp.†   (source)
  • Taking the main road the rest of the way would have been easier, but we knew there were sentries watching the route.†   (source)
  • Sentries.†   (source)
  • He'd lost two sentries to them.†   (source)
  • Normally the sight of a lone horseman galloping out of Washington, D.C., long after dark would make the sentries guarding the bridges suspicious.†   (source)
  • It was "rifling" — spiraled grooves inside the long barrel—that increased the accuracy, and the new men began firing at British sentries with deadly effect, until the British caught on and kept their heads down or stayed out of range.†   (source)
  • I saw a RECCE sniper with a thermal scope on the roof starting to scan for sentries in a dried-up creek bed that ran north to south along the perimeter of the compounds.†   (source)
  • He searched through the minds of the Varden until he found Jormundur, then gave the warrior instructions to check that all the sentries were still at their posts and to redouble the watch for the remainder of the night.†   (source)
  • Only one man was set to guard it, but she knew there would be sentries up in that tower as well, and others nearby walking the walls.†   (source)
  • The sentries passed the spear along from watch to watch, while Mormont had divided the arrows among his best bowmen.†   (source)
  • No sentries had been posted in their section, because, although they were close to the enemy, they were hard by thousands of other troops.†   (source)
  • Unless he'd left a trail through the wire the sentries wouldn't be allowed back in camp for at least three days.†   (source)
  • The only drawback is that sentries man the bridge and no traffic is allowed in or out of Washington after ten P.M. Booth wants to see those sentries for himself.†   (source)
  • They never made camp without putting out sentries now, but Arya did not trust them, especially the orphan boys.†   (source)
  • When the column came trotting from the fields, the sentries stared at them with more curiosity than fear.†   (source)
  • It looked now as if the sentries, known to the prisoners as "parrots," were perched in all six watchtowers, but still they weren't letting the column in.†   (source)
  • Wht's become of the sentries I posted?†   (source)
  • One could not enter the Ministry of War without either a pass or an appointment, and half a dozen efficient sentries monitored the in-going traffic.†   (source)
  • A favorite technique employed by the silver-haired and low-key Jones is to begin his first crossing just before dusk, when the angle of the sun makes it impossible for sentries on the opposite shore to see small craft on the water.†   (source)
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