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  • He wanted sentries posted all around the palace, day and night.†   (source)
  • Two robotic sentries stood outside the armory's entrance.†   (source)
  • She was a sentry.†   (source)
  • My father holds the door open on the twentieth floor and stands like a sentry as every Abnegation walks past him.†   (source)
  • Photographs of Daweses and Cabots stood sentry on the night table.†   (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)
  • Your father made sure that each of Endovier's sentries could shoot a squirrel from two hundred paces away.†   (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)
  • He follows past company houses and the sentry at the bottom of the hill to where the mining officials reside.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As I neared the gate, a sentry stepped out and blocked my way.†   (source)
  • She had opened her coat so that the sentries could sec her breasts tipping forward inside the threadbare summer dress.†   (source)
  • No sentry on the gangplank, no bosun on the bridge, not a light anywhere.†   (source)
  • They headed through the hills, avoiding the tops for fear of being spotted by sentries.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • Mautz is sitting in today, uninvolved, but leaning against the wall near Lemry's desk like a sentry.†   (source)
  • The sentry was posted high up on the wall beside the belfry.†   (source)
  • Slumped like drugged sentries asleep at the gates of Paradise.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Wooden watchtowers rose at each corner, manned by sentries with oversized, mounted crossbows.†   (source)
  • "Halt!" shouted a sentry.†   (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)
  • As we sped along, he pointed out more sentries on more mountains.†   (source)
  • We reach the watchtower, and the sentries stationed there turn and walk away, as if following a silent order.†   (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)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia saw that the sentry could not see.†   (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)
  • For example, Painter requested some E-3 Sentries to support you out here.†   (source)
  • The sentry remained still.†   (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)
  • The sentry had spotted movement at the army post.†   (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)
  • A round stove stands in the middle of the room like a fat sentry on duty.†   (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 were both…†   (source)
  • I could see the mounted Imperial Bodyguard sentries, one on each side of the palace gate.†   (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)
  • Surely the beasts would have sentries posted.†   (source)
  • Dudley lifted his head when I walked in, a worthy sentry.†   (source)
  • Lucien followed the detective into the room where Lonny sat waiting expectantly with a stout nurse at his side, sentry-like.†   (source)
  • Stand here, sentry, with your back to the wall.†   (source)
  • "These are Army-trained sentry dogs," the security man said.†   (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)
  • British and American sentries alike were fired on repeatedly.†   (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)
  • Perhaps protecting me, standing sentry at my door.†   (source)
  • The false leg stood in the corner like a toy sentry.†   (source)
  • He mostly slept in the van during the day and then sat up at night, acting as sentry.†   (source)
  • A RECCE sniper on the backside of the building Steve's team was clearing was looking for roving sentries.†   (source)
  • They can't risk a cordon of single sentries because there are known to be Fringes people scouting around.†   (source)
  • There could be sentries nearby.†   (source)
  • I'll walk up and down on sentry for a while.'†   (source)
  • They stood as sentries, lining the entire top tier with their spears at the ready.†   (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)
  • Two other men were to remain as sentries.†   (source)
  • Sentries cry out, ordering them to stop.†   (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)
  • A field with high grass was the most logical place to have sentries; the fronds moved when hidden intruders crawled through them.†   (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)
  • That target behind me — the one you've been missing, number three — is a sentry, armed with everything but an H-bomb.†   (source)
  • There was still the lonely sentry on the bridge, and he had turned and was watching Karl.†   (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)
  • There was no sentry on the gangway, no officer of the day to challenge her.†   (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 happens to a lot of sentries keeping watch.†   (source)
  • She killed her overseer and twenty-three sentries before they caught her.†   (source)
  • The sentries verified the requisition and stepped aside, permitting SD-03 to roll into the cage.†   (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)
  • "Endovier sentries usually shoot a man down before he's moved three feet."†   (source)
  • How had the Scabs managed to pass their sentries on the cliffs undetected?†   (source)
  • I know how to hide myself with magic; the sentries would never see me.†   (source)
  • Other times he would have sworn they were up on the curtain walls, loping round like sentries.†   (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)
  • Why didn't sentries in the tunnels warn us of the Urgals?†   (source)
  • The number of sentries at gun emplacements was doubled.†   (source)
  • The two men who remained standing paced the ship as if they were sentries.†   (source)
  • "Wht's become of the sentries I posted?"†   (source)
  • If the numbers tallied again the sentries would be removed from the watchtowers.†   (source)
  • My mutton-headed uncle had not even troubled to post sentries, it would seem.†   (source)
  • The sentries will take care of this mess.†   (source)
  • A dozen isolated individuals on the periphery: sentries.†   (source)
  • Escort Percy so the sentries don't shoot him.†   (source)
  • Whoever had carved up the ash had eluded his sentries, plainly.†   (source)
  • "There are sentries, of course," he said.†   (source)
  • Within seconds the sentries allow them to pass and usher Grant to Sheridan's headquarters.†   (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)
  • This time when we crossed over, we had a clear view of the target with no sentries nearby.†   (source)
  • There were sentries out this way too, but Arya had no trouble avoiding them.†   (source)
  • He saw the other sentries moving among the frightened villagers, spreading the same message.†   (source)
  • He raised the flag, put sentries at the gates, and sent men into town for provisions.†   (source)
  • The sentries yelled, but Percy knew they couldn't get a clear shot.†   (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)
  • Only the six sentries on their watchtowers were visible-and some people bustling around the office.†   (source)
  • I best go see what he did to our sentries.†   (source)
  • One of the sentries pulled me along, saying, "Don't worry, the lieutenant has his certain way."†   (source)
  • No sentries challenged him as he rode past the outbuildings.†   (source)
  • The sentries shouted and swiveled their crossbows toward the gorgons.†   (source)
  • He posted sentries to see that no one left the confines of the village.†   (source)
  • Then everyone but Gertrude descended belowdecks to hunt for the remaining sentries.†   (source)
  • "She said a bird would attack the sentries?" interrupted Woundwort, puzzled.†   (source)
  • The captain told the sentries they were relieved of their posts for one hour.†   (source)
  • As they hurried to obey, he examined the parapet on top of the wall for sentries.†   (source)
  • See if your store gets many customers with these sentries outside.†   (source)
  • But these Efrafan does, you see—they've been kept in by sentries all their lives.†   (source)
  • They stopped not ten feet behind the sentries.†   (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)
  • Mundt nodded, lit a cigarette and gave it to one of the sentries to pass to Leamas.†   (source)
  • He knew where the sentries were posted and at first avoided them successfully.†   (source)
  • It reached the two sentries in the middle of the road and stopped again.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The Blackfish led the van, cutting down our sentries and clearing away the palisades for the main assault.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Each time, robotic sentries scanned its security clearance and found that the droid was allowed to go anywhere it damn well pleased.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The mounted sentries stared straight ahead, their mounts disciplined and still, only the horses' skin twitching.†   (source)
  • Bloody useful things, those Sentries.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On a certain occasion a very beautiful woman had come into his camp in Tucurinca and asked the sentries' permission to see him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • An officer in a field uniform, ruddy-faced, with very thick glasses and ceremonious manners, signaled to the sentries to withdraw.†   (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 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)
  • The other sentries returned to camp, and long before their replacements stirred, the River Guard had taken up position and were waiting.†   (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)
  • Unless he'd left a trail through the wire the sentries wouldn't be allowed back in camp for at least three days.†   (source)
  • They never made camp without putting out sentries now, but Arya did not trust them, especially the orphan boys.†   (source)
  • All along the castle walls, sentries turned toward the sound, their hands tightening around the shafts of their spears.†   (source)
  • Well, if he'd fled during the day that was one thing, but if he'd hidden and was simply waiting for the sentries to go off the watchtowers he hadn't a chance.†   (source)
  • The sentries blocked her way.†   (source)
  • The sentries on the Wall have been told to keep one eye on the south, and Donal Noye dispatched some men to Weatherback Ridge to watch the kingsroad.†   (source)
  • Then he veered toward the loading dock, intending to help in carrying or just to walk past the two lackadaisical sentries.†   (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)
  • The sentries at the ringwall stood still in their footsteps, breath frosting and heads turned toward the west.†   (source)
  • The sentries passed the spear along from watch to watch, while Mormont had divided the arrows among his best bowmen.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • No sentries walked the walls.†   (source)
  • Beneath them, armed and armored sentries walked their rounds with spears and crossbows, watching every approach.†   (source)
  • She stayed in the shadow of the curtain wall whenever she could, so the sentries walking their rounds on the ramparts above would have needed to look almost straight down to see her.†   (source)
  • The plan collapsed as sentries ran back, unshouldering their weapons, and others came running from the tents.†   (source)
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