All 31 Uses of
sentry
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- Scales, however (and everyone knew that a scale comprised three men), were moderate and soothing, nearly invisible to sentries and observers, part of the landscape, and not so big that their apparent movement would appear unusual.†
Chpt 4
- As Guariglia continued to peer into the beams, he said, "On the day we get sentry duty, when everyone else goes to the firing range…"†
Chpt 5
- They drew sentry duty on a clear windy day late in April when the River Guard went to the firing range.†
Chpt 5
- I want one sentry at the gate and one on the ramparts.
Chpt 5 *sentry = person who stands guard
- As the sun came up behind them in the clear, binoculars were circulated and the squads of men lying flat on the ridge discovered that in the enemy camp were women, strings of mules, laundry hung out to dry, pits for roasting meat, a platform that looked like a stage, and sentries, of whom at least a dozen lined the dirt track that led up to their camp.†
Chpt 5
- Their sentries overlook the road and are posted all around the camp.†
Chpt 5
- They're short on timepieces, because the sentries don't trust their relief to keep the timethey don't want to sit on a rock singing 'La Cincindella' while their replacements are sleeping, or swimming in the stream, hours after they should be at their posts-so they take the watches with them.†
Chpt 5
- Because the relief doesn't know what time it is, the sentries leave their posts and come into camp to get them, which is very stupid, especially if we're waiting on the route back.†
Chpt 5
- The sentries would be captured, or struck in the back of the head with rifle butts, whichever would be quieter, after which the River Guard would enter the camp, cutting the tent stays with their bayonets.†
Chpt 5
- It would be hard to eliminate all of the sentries without noise, not everyone would be inside the tents, and, if even one man escaped, all Sicily would know of the operation.†
Chpt 5
- During the night they positioned themselves near the sentry posts in a riot of noise that did not betray them, for the boar, much disturbed, ran close to the sentries and even through the camp.†
Chpt 5
- During the night they positioned themselves near the sentry posts in a riot of noise that did not betray them, for the boar, much disturbed, ran close to the sentries and even through the camp.†
Chpt 5
- By the end of this, the River Guard had taken position, with fifty of them poised to eliminate the sentries and eighty more ready to rush the camp if anyone managed to sound an alert.†
Chpt 5
- The sentries began to walk in.†
Chpt 5
- The other sentries returned to camp, and long before their replacements stirred, the River Guard had taken up position and were waiting.†
Chpt 5
- The plan collapsed as sentries ran back, unshouldering their weapons, and others came running from the tents.†
Chpt 5
- Wounded men, panicked sentries, and nude women clutching their clothes fled barefooted, hopping along the thorny ground until they had to sit down.†
Chpt 5
- He raised the flag, put sentries at the gates, and sent men into town for provisions.†
Chpt 5
- The Tiber would already be in flood and the only people outside would be the sentries who stood before palaces and ministries, and even they had little houses made for chocolate soldiers.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- Then he veered toward the loading dock, intending to help in carrying or just to walk past the two lackadaisical sentries.†
Chpt 7
- No one was able to resist the overturned truck, and as the sentries ran to it, holding their rifles by the throat and swinging the butts like pendula, Alessandro walked past a phalanx of cooks who had gathered to watch the catastrophe.†
Chpt 7
- No sentries had been posted in their section, because, although they were close to the enemy, they were hard by thousands of other troops.†
Chpt 7
- The snow-covered streets, bathed in white and glistening with ice, were empty, and sentries at the edge of the village would have slept had it not been for the dazzling moonlight that brought them marvelous waking dreams.†
Chpt 7
- They climbed a ladder to a sandbagged firing position manned by a dullard sentry whom the sun had dyed the color of smoked bacon.†
Chpt 7
- Sentries marched stiffly at the perimeter and among the saddlery and weapons, which shone in the light of the setting sun.†
Chpt 8
- The sentries were glad that the watch was over and that they were no longer the only ones awake so far in advance of dawn.†
Chpt 8
- In unguarded conversation the sentries on the Isonzo had alluded to such things, to ghosts and visions that came to them just before dawn, the heart beating on the edge, eyes held open as if with an invisible hook.†
Chpt 8
- "The sentry will shoot as you exit," one of them said, smiling almost in satisfaction.†
Chpt 8
- He took the guard's pistol and a wallet stuffed with money, then dragged him into the sentry booth and covered him with a blanket.†
Chpt 8
- LYING AGAINST a mound of straw as he tried to keep the wind from under two blankets that he had bought, Alessandro held the 9mm pistol he had stolen from the sentry, in case someone in the mass of men huddled in the car should dislike Italians or covet what he had left.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard