All 4 Uses
sentry
in
Les Miserables
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- They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter.†
Chpt 1.5
- Stop, sir; here is the door where the sentry stands.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket.†
Chpt 4.6
- Perhaps they had escaped from some guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the Barriere d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum, some mountebank's booth from which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the papers?†
Chpt 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentry) someone who stands guard
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)