All 11 Uses of
armory
in
The Lords of Discipline
- We lapped the parade ground twice, circled the armory, passed the yacht basin, crossed the baseball field, and halted finally at the farthest perimeter of the campus by the edge of the salt marsh, which separated the grounds of the Institute from the Ashley River.†
Chpt 2.16
- That evening I walked through the front door of the Armory to play the last game I would ever play for Carolina Military Institute.†
Chpt 3.30 *
- The Armory smelled of loss and passage and absent crowds; it shimmered with memories of old forgotten games and the death of athletes.†
Chpt 3.30
- Then he flung the door open and we burst into the Armory, princes of the sudden light, flawed but game champions of the Corps of Cadets.†
Chpt 3.30
- Nothing has ever affected me in that same profoundly visceral way as the salutation of the Corps when I broke free from the steamy enclave of the locker room into the blue-hazed, cavernous, light-filtered center of the Armory.†
Chpt 3.30
- If a team played us in the Armory, we were ten points better than we were on the road and not because we automatically played better at home but because our skills merged with the fury of the Corps in full cry.†
Chpt 3.30
- Strangers could garner some glimpse of the plebe system's violent nature by sitting in the Armory and listening to the Corps's voice.†
Chpt 3.30
- The marvelous noise of the Corps had turned the Armory into a vessel of unimaginable tumult.†
Chpt 3.30
- I was one of the last to dress and the Armory was massive and lonely.†
Chpt 3.30
- His eyes were dark and troubled as they moved past me toward the huge, illuminated silhouettes of the barracks, toward the baseball field, toward the Armory.†
Chpt 3.30
- I was surprised to see it stop, turn around, and come back in the opposite direction, pass us by, then drive past the military science building and disappear behind the Armory.†
Chpt 4.41
Definitions:
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(1)
(armory) a building where military equipment is stored
or (more rarely): all the weapons and equipment that a country has; or all the resources available to deal with an opponent -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely still, "armory" can specifically refer to a building where the U.S. National Guard stores military equipment and/or does training; or to a place where military arms are manufactured.