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sentry
in
The Plague
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In the early days a favored few managed to persuade the sentries at the gates to allow them to get messages through to the outside world.†
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sentries = people standing guard
But that was only at the beginning of the epidemic, when the sentries found it natural to obey their feelings of humanity.†
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Later on, when these same sentries had had the gravity of the situation drummed into them, they flatly refused to take responsibilities whose possible after-effects they could not foresee.†
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While our townspeople were trying to come to terms with their sudden isolation, the plague was posting sentries at the gates and turning away ships bound for Oran.†
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In fact, what with the heat and the plague, some of our fellow citizens were losing their heads; there had already been some scenes of violence and nightly attempts were made to elude the sentries and escape to the outside world.†
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In another context Tarrou notes that, on coming home in the evenings, he invariably saw the night watchman pacing the hall, like a sentry on his beat.†
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They get the stuff in past the sentries at the gates.†
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sentries = people standing guard
The gate was guarded by armed sentries, and now and then an eerie cry resounded in the courtyard between the barrack rooms and the entrance.†
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He is going to put you in touch with two of our friends who will introduce you to some sentries whom we've squared.†
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You'll have to leave it to the sentries to decide on the best moment.†
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The trouble was that there were two other sentries, regular soldiers, besides themselves, at the west gate.†
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Some evenings, however, these two sentries spent several hours in the back room of a nearby bar.†
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But there was no time to lose; there had been talk about setting up duplicate sentry posts a little farther out.†
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"They had camps, you know," he was saying, "for the natives, with tents for the sick ones and a ring of sentries all round.†
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sentries = people standing guard
Then the sentry posts were reinforced, and such attempts quickly ceased.†
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Accordingly the east-gate sentry post was moved farther out.†
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Of the two men sharing the sentry post with them, he explained, one had got plague and the other, who had slept in the same room, was now under observation.†
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It was already surrounded by high concrete walls and all that was needed to make escape practically impossible was to post sentries at the four entrance gates.†
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sentries = people standing guard
This took the authorities by surprise, and, apparently, the sentries too-since most of the "escapists" brought it off.†
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(1) (sentry)
someone who stands guard
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

sentry in The Plague (Auto-generated)

sentry
in
The Plague
(Auto-generated)