All 10 Uses
sentry
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- A bare hillside (ye see) is like all one road; if there's a sentry at one place, ye just go by another.†
Chpt 12
- I have fished a water with a sentry on the other side of the brae, and killed a fine trout; and I have sat in a heather bush within six feet of another, and learned a real bonny tune from his whistling.†
Chpt 12
- But I dare say he'll have a sentry on the road, and he would ken well enough no soldiers would find the way that we came.†
Chpt 19
- About half a mile up the water was a camp of red-coats; a big fire blazed in their midst, at which some were cooking; and near by, on the top of a rock about as high as ours, there stood a sentry, with the sun sparkling on his arms.†
Chpt 20
- All the way down along the river-side were posted other sentries; here near together, there widelier scattered; some planted like the first, on places of command, some on the ground level and marching and counter-marching, so as to meet half-way.†
Chpt 20sentries = people standing guard
- A man had need of a hundred eyes in every part of him, to keep concealed in that uneven country and within cry of so many and scattered sentries.†
Chpt 20 *
- By sundown we had made some distance, even by our slow rate of progress, though to be sure the sentry on the rock was still plainly in our view.†
Chpt 20
- We're just to bide here with these, which are his out-sentries, till they can get word to the chief of my arrival.†
Chpt 22sentries = people standing guard
- Well, I had no sooner closed my eyes, than my body, and above all my head, belly, and wrists, seemed to be filled with whirring grasshoppers; and I must open my eyes again at once, and tumble and toss, and sit up and lie down; and look at the sky which dazzled me, or at Cluny's wild and dirty sentries, peering out over the top of the brae and chattering to each other in the Gaelic.†
Chpt 22
- I must suppose the sentry had been sleeping, so that had we tried, we might have passed unseen; but he was awake now, and the chance forfeited.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentry) someone who stands guard
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)