All 14 Uses of
sentry
in
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- He opened the trunk, looked inside, closed it, returned the key and walked thirty yards up the road to where, midway between the two opposing checkpoints, a solitary East German sentry was standing, a squat silhouette in boots and baggy trousers.†
Chpt 1
- It reached the two sentries in the middle of the road and stopped again.†
Chpt 1
- There was still the lonely sentry on the bridge, and he had turned and was watching Karl.†
Chpt 1 *
- The East German sentry fired, quite carefully, away from them, into his own sector.†
Chpt 1
- Somehow he was still moving, still on the bicycle, passing the sentry, and the sentry was still shooting at him.†
Chpt 1
- Somehow he was still moving, still on the bicycle, passing the sentry, and the sentry was still shooting at him.†
Chpt 1
- A sentry woke him with breakfast: black bread and ersatz coffee.†
Chpt 12
- Not that there was anything brave about coming to see him—the sentries, Leamas supposed, were still in the adjoining room.†
Chpt 12
- Mundt nodded, lit a cigarette and gave it to one of the sentries to pass to Leamas.†
Chpt 17
- The sentry came over, and with a gesture of grudging solicitude, put the cigarette between Leamas' lips.†
Chpt 17
- So the sentry died, did he?†
Chpt 17
- You killed a sentry, you know that?†
Chpt 18
- She looked sharply around the room, nodded to a sentry to close the door, and began at once without ceremony to address the court.†
Chpt 20
- Slowly Liz followed her along endless corridors, through grilles manned by sentries, past iron doors from which no sound came, down endless stairs, across whole courtyards far beneath the ground, until she thought she had descended to the bowels of hell itself, and no one would even tell her when Leamas was dead.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard