All 50 Uses of
sentry
in
Watership Down
- Lettuce-stealing isn't my idea of a jolly life, nor sentry duty in the burrow.†
p. 14..4
- His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night.†
p. 94..4 *
- Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water, put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night.†
p. 95..6
- Hazel placed Buckthorn as a sentry while the day's haphazard work went on, and twice more during the afternoon the alarm was given.†
p. 134..4
- Bigwig, realizing that the sentries were on the jump from watching and waiting with nothing to do, changed places with him and sent Speedwell up to take over from Blackberry.†
p. 214..3
- Then under him there are captains—each one in charge of a Mark—and each captain has his own officers and sentries.†
p. 233..9
- If a man happens to come anywhere near, which isn't often, the sentries give warning long before he comes close enough to see anything They give warning of elil, too.†
p. 234..1
- I thought there might be a chance to run for it in the moonlight, but there seemed to be sentries everywhere.†
p. 238..4
- And besides the sentries, the Captain kept two runners with him, whose job was to rush off at once in any direction from which an alarm might be given.†
p. 238..5
- Captain Bugloss was out on the bank, with two of his sentries.†
p. 239..2
- I'm going round the sentries.'†
p. 239..7
- "Well, then the four of us ran off into the dark and, sure enough, after we'd gone a little way two sentries popped up and tried to stop us.†
p. 239..8
- Hazel realized that he had been careless to allow everyone to gather round Dandelion and to have failed to post even one sentry.†
p. 283..2
- Even in his flash of alarm as Pipkin spoke, it crossed Hazel's mind that Fiver, no doubt reluctant to advise him in front of the others, had probably seized the opportunity provided by Pipkin's fear to post himself as a sentry.†
p. 283..4
- As soon as he had sent out Speedwell and Hawkbit as sentries, he led Bigwig to one side.†
p. 286..1
- Further out still were the sentries of the Owsla, on the alert for the approach of men or elil and also for any rabbit who might stray too far to be able to get underground quickly if there should be an alarm.†
p. 303..4
- Captain Chervil, one of the two officers of the Mark, had just returned from a round of his sentries and was talking to some of the does near the center of the Mark ground when he saw the General approaching.†
p. 303..6
- He devised the Marks, each controlled by its own officers and sentries, with feeding times changed regularly to give all a share of early morning and sunset—the favorite hours for silflay.†
p. 305..8
- But they had succeeded in playing a very simple trick, bamboozling the Mark commander, attacking his sentries and escaping by night.†
p. 308..3
- Ordinary Owsla—sentries—were not too hard to find, but officers were another matter and he had lost three in less than a month.†
p. 308..4
- "What are your sentries like, Chervil?" he asked at length.†
p. 309..7
- Anyway, I want to go round your sentries now.†
p. 310..0
- In moonlight we put the sentries fairly close in and keep on the move ourselves to make sure no one goes too far.†
p. 313..0
- But in rain or darkness we send the Mark up in small groups, one after the other, and each group has a sentry in charge.†
p. 313..1
- We keep a hraka sentry in the ditch to make sure they come back.†
p. 314..1
- The sentries come in last of all—I only call them in when I'm quite sure that all the Mark are down.†
p. 314..3
- And once they're down, of course, they can't very well get out, with a sentry at each hole.†
p. 314..4
- Turning to one of his own sentries who was close by, Chervil told him to go round the burrows and send everyone up for silflay.†
p. 315..0
- We'll send four sentries out to the line, to start with, and when the Mark have all gone out we'll add four more and keep two in reserve.†
p. 315..1
- The Council were merciful—the Council were merciful—the Council—I can't remember it, sir, I really can't," he burst out, turning to the sentry who had spoken.†
p. 316..7
- The sentry said nothing.†
p. 316..7
- Unless you've got any other ideas, I'll go and talk to some of the Mark and then go round the sentries and get the lie of the land.†
p. 318..3
- "Oh, well, there's one of them with some spirit left, anyway," he thought, as he made his way out to the sentries.†
p. 321..9
- He spent some time talking to the sentries and learning how they were organized.†
p. 321..9
- Each sentry could reach his neighbor in a matter of moments; and the appropriate stamping signal—for they had more than one—would bring out the officers and the reserves.†
p. 321..9
- One of the sentries, Marjoram, told him about the attempted escape by Blackavar.†
p. 322..2
- He actually managed to knock down two sentries who tried to stop him; and I doubt whether anyone on his own has ever done as much as that.†
p. 322..3
- Of course, if he hadn't smashed up the sentries, the Council might have let him off more lightly.
p. 322..4sentries = people standing guard
- As darkness fell, just before the end of the silflay, Captain Campion came up the field with a patrol of three and Chervil ran out to meet him on the sentry line.†
p. 322..9
- Although the rank and file were cramped underground, the sentries had two large, roomy burrows to themselves, while each officer had a private burrow.†
p. 323..7
- If he took it upon himself to call the sentries in during a silflay, Chervil would see in a matter of moments what he had done.†
p. 323..9
- The only possibility, then, was to make the break-out during the day: to wait until Chervil was asleep and then order a sentry to leave his post at the mouth of one of the holes.†
p. 324..0
- I shall meet the bird a little way out in the meadow and tell him to attack the sentries as soon as he sees me go back into the hole.†
p. 329..5
- Sentries are out already.†
p. 332..2
- As soon as he saw the Mark come up, he alighted a little way out in the field, halfway between the undergrowth and the sentry line, and began pecking about in the grass.†
p. 333..3
- They're the sentries.†
p. 333..7
- As soon as you see me go in, attack the sentries—terrify them, drive them away.†
p. 333..8
- "But will this bird really attack the sentries?" asked Thethuthinnang.†
p. 335..1
- When I come out with Blackavar, the sentries will be running for cover.†
p. 335..2
- Look, there's Avens bringing in the sentries—we'll have to go.†
p. 335..5
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard