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guardhouses

n. (plural of guardhouse English)

Usage examples of "guardhouses".

A fresh spring breeze swept down from the mountains to whisper through the pines that swayed above the tiled roof of the guardhouses along the inner walls.

Roofed gates with twin guardhouses punctuated the long expanses of black and white.

The guardhouses that ran along the tops of the walls were dark, vacant.

The elaborate gate, with its red beams, twin guardhouses, massive double doors, and heavy tile roof, proclaimed its supremacy over the simpler gates of lesser daimyo.

The damp chill seeped into him, and he paced before the guardhouses to keep warm.

The bearers set down the palanquin while two samurai came out of the guardhouses and opened the gate.

Countless samurai stood inside guardhouses that topped the walls, and more occupied lookout towers.

Why, having done so, do they take the time to attack the guardhouses instead of sneaking around them?

You know as well as I do that these”—he jabbed a finger at the corpses—“sorry sons-of-bitches wouldn’t move out of their guardhouses unless they were forced to.

Thereafter we could rightly assert that our blitz into China had indeed caused the enemy more damage than the destruction of a few bases, guardhouses, bridges, and vehicles.

He looked at the bridge where the Mardukan soldiers in both guardhouses were watching the company deploy.