What is "guardpost"

Usage examples of "guardpost".

Only an hour before an Inquisitor had passed the guardpost and the Lieutenant toyed with the fancy that she was selling it to the priests now.

The road led north from France into the Dutch province of Belgium, but there was neither guardpost nor gate to show where the road left the French Empire to enter the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

If this dozen, ten soldiers and their officers, had been the whole of it, the guardpost would have fallen.

The path on this side of the guardpost ran for a time under the flank of a ridge that shut off any view of what lay beyond.

All the way from the guardpost she had looked tired to exhaustion, merely enduring.

The escort saw them past the outer guardpost, then saluted and went drumming and clanking back to the city.

Then they rearranged the guardposts, and decided on the signals to use when something happened.

He sent one of those skilled in cutting stone by magery down to carve guardposts where the Rosemage wanted them.

But even if the guardposts in the pass could have been taken, the sodden morass beyond presented an even more formidable obstacle to an invading force.

He heard the whine of gundogs powering up, and then the frantic sound of the machines running for their appointed guardposts.

The main compound and garrison are already in our hands and all telephone lines to the guardposts cut.