What is "guardroom"

Usage examples of "guardroom".

They are pretty foulmouthed and foulminded down there in the guardroom, some of them.

Then he led us through the palace grounds to the main guardroom of the palace, there turning us over to the officer in charge.

We reach a very convenient house, containing on the ground floor three rooms and a stable, which I immediately turned into a guardroom.

I caused three sentinels to be placed, one before the guardroom, one at my door, and the third where he could have a good view of the sea.

Wandering up the road toward the guardroom would be one of the garrison personnel, like an Ordnance Corps bloke or a Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers fitter, hand in hand with some hooker, and the two hundred bootnecks would run past and give their marks out of ten.

The stones had shifted so much that the gate pintles were a full inch out of true, and cracks had appeared in the guardroom walls.

The guard was turning out, four troopers and a non-commissioned officer, falling in outside the guardroom.

Reaching the guardroom above, Sir Pertinax called lustily for sword and bascinet, and thereafter chose divers likely weapons for his companions who, with axe and pike and guisarme on shoulder, followed him out into the free air.

Next evening, Profane was sitting in the guardroom at Anthroresearch Associates, feet propped on a gas stove, reading an avant-garde western called Existentialist Sheriff, which Pig Bodine had recommended.

This time, because they both felt familiar with Caerlaverock, they hurried arm in arm beneath the massive archway and along the echoing, empty passages beside the guardrooms in the direction of the open courtyard.

Haggard and hollow-eyed policemen stumbled home for a few hours sleep, others dropped like felled trees onto sofas and wooden benches in the guardrooms and dayrooms of the various stations.

Keep one peeper peeled for this hero fella you say's coming, maybe kindle a light, start a little summat boiling on the guardroom fire, hot wine, the cup that cheers, just the thing what with a winter like we're like to have, judging by the misery as's crept into me bones.

Only when he came down to the guardroom sometimes with me would he take part in the weapon play that he loved, and the housecarls, who were all tried and good warriors, said that he was their master in the use of every weapon, and it puzzled them to know where he had learned so well, for he yet wore his fisher's garb.

But whoever they were, they appear to have walked in while some of that mislaid property I mentioned was in the process of walking out, because it was all piled in a heap in the center of the guardroom when Gosanth's relief turned up.

But whoever they were, they appear to have walked in while some of that mislaid property I mentioned was in the process of walking out, because it was all piled in a heap in the center of the guardroom when Gosanths relief turned up.