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Usage examples of sentry.

Maybe, I thought as I read this report, soldiers could wear a visor that intensified images through the reflection and amplification of available light and navigate in the darkness of a battlefield with as much confidence as if they were walking their sentry posts in broad daylight.

He has already stamped his personality on the batch, bawling out one guy for not doing his job, while on another occasion, on sentry duty, he was conversing with Coyle sotto voce when Robinson stomped up ignoring all the rules on keeping quiet at night so Tanner backhanded him in the face without even looking like Baloo unleashing a heavy paw.

Holding a torch close by his face, he called up to the amazed sentries in the bartizan to open for him.

The sentry agreed, and Akeela had Breck count out twenty of the Royal Chargers.

With Breck beside him, Akeela followed the sentry out of the yard, through a portcullis and into the main keep.

A pair of mismatched sentries greeted them from behind the towering metal bars.

Already the parados was lined with newly-made firing positions, that gave the sentry view of the German trench some forty or fifty yards in front.

The pair of Tezwan police officers, attired to match the guerrilla sentries on the rooftop, lingered behind Peart, who was leading the strike.

Besides, if the Polos had passed through the gate, the sentries were the ones to ask.

Presently they began to follow her, with a compressed murmur of admiration, until, before she was halfway across the plaza, the sentries beside the gateway of the Presidio were astonished at the vision of a fair-haired and triumphant Pallas, who appeared to be leading the entire population of Todos Santos to victorious attack.

She put aside her cloak to give freedom to her arms, strung her bow, and held her head high as might a pronghorn buck on herd sentry, listening.

During the heat of the day we rested in this pleasant grove, and with sleep and conversation passed the hours away, while the sentries pacing to and fro alone disturbed the illusion that this was some picnic party in a more propitious land.

We posted sentries on shore, and not laying down our oars, we ate the food that the renegade had provisioned, and prayed with all our hearts to God and Our Lady that they help and favor us and allow us to bring to a happy conclusion what had begun so auspiciously.

Hell, Ducos, the British have a cavalry screen and there are partisans and our own picquets and Cod knows how many other British sentries.

The murdered sentries had each had a saltire cross slashed across their brows, as by a hunting-knife.