All 17 Uses
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Doctor Zhivago
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- 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.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Without thinking twice, Yurii Andreievich took advantage of a moment when the sentry's back was turned and the wind had raised a cloud of snow into the air to creep up on the dark side, avoiding the lamplight, carefully loosen a heavy beam from the very bottom, and pull it out.†
Chpt 2.6
- He walked around the front car, meaning to cross the rails and look for the main part of the station, but a sentry with a rifle rose in his path.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Who gave you permission to prowl around?" asked another sentry with a rifle.†
Chpt 2.7
- By way of answer the sentry put his whistle to his mouth, but he was saved the trouble, for the first sentry, whom it was meant to summon, had evidently been following the doctor without a sound, and now joined his comrade.†
Chpt 2.7
- By way of answer the sentry put his whistle to his mouth, but he was saved the trouble, for the first sentry, whom it was meant to summon, had evidently been following the doctor without a sound, and now joined his comrade.†
Chpt 2.7
- Grabbing the bunch of papers in his fist and calling back to someone: "Keep an eye on him," he strode away with the first sentry toward the station.†
Chpt 2.7
- He learned finally that among the trains at the station which were used as military offices was the special train of Army Commissar Strelnikov, to whom the two sentries had gone to report.†
Chpt 2.7sentries = people standing guard
- A third sentry now came from the direction in which the two others had gone; he was distinguished from them chiefly by the fact that he pulled his rifle after him, the butt trailing on the ground, or propped it up in front of him like a tipsy friend who needed his support.†
Chpt 2.7
- Sounds of laughter and movement came from one of the two coupled parlor cars to which the guard, after giving the password to the sentry, took the doctor, but they ceased the moment the two men went in.†
Chpt 2.7
- My sentries got mixed up.†
Chpt 2.7sentries = people standing guard
- Escorted by the sentry who dragged his rifle after him or used it as a walking stick, the doctor went back to his carriage.†
Chpt 2.8
- The sentry's rifle butt plowed a furrow in the sand.†
Chpt 2.8
- The sentries told us.†
Chpt 2.8sentries = people standing guard
- He knew where the sentries were posted and at first avoided them successfully.†
Chpt 2.12
- But when he came to the clearing with the mound and rowan tree a sentry hailed him from a distance, took a run on his skis, and standing straight up on them glided swiftly toward him.†
Chpt 2.12
- And as swiftly as he had come, the sentry took a run, stood straight up on his long skis, and whistled over the untrodden snow into the distance beyond the bare winter shrubs as thin as thinning hair.†
Chpt 2.12
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentry) someone who stands guard
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)