One was the armed sentry who stood at the gate to see that no recovering inmate slipped out, and the other was a German surgeon- general who was making his daily round of inspection of the hospitals and had brought us along with him.

They were an emergency lot; we hadn't enough in the ship for the double sentry go that I wanted.

In an instant the marine sentry had tumbled two life-preservers over into the water.

The care against surprise is so great and constant that we defy prowling Indians to come unawares upon us, and our advanced sentries and savages have on the contrary fallen in with the enemy and taken a scalp or two from them.

On another bed, three feet from the King, sat the officer on guard, while two stalwart European sentries, with fixed bayonets, stood on either side.

Lockwood said that at night especially every person who came in or went out was watched by the outlying sentries.

A little after four the sentries on the walls at Cape Diamond saw lights flashing about in front of them and were just going to call the guard when Captain Malcolm Fraser of the Royal Emigrants came by on his rounds and saw other lights being set out in regular order like lamps in a street.

The gallant little sentry will rush at him, with spines as stiff as fixed bayonets, ready to do battle to the death.

CHAPTER XIV THE OFFICERS' MESS A gigantic sentry of her Majesty's Household Cavalry paces up and down in front of the officers' quarters at Knightsbridge Barracks some two hours before watch-setting.

From side to side he tramped, swinging on his heel at each end of the bridge like a grenadier sentry, and giving Petrak, who had the wheel, a stern look as he passed.

Accompanied by my private secretary, Dr. P. L. Sherman, I hastened to Caloocan, where we arrived just at dusk, having had to run the gantlet of numerous inquisitive sentries en route.

They also exclaimed: "Well, how about the invisible sentry!"

There it was, the Indian River, rippling idly in full sunlight, palmettos leaning over the water, palmettos standing as irregular sentries along the low, reeflike island which stretched away out of the picture.

How had it been able to inform this lone sentry of that flying ray which disclosed the line of a coastal road to anyone at sea?

The blades of heroes fence it round; Where'er it springs is holy ground; From tower and dome its glories spread; It waves where lonely sentries tread; It makes the land as ocean free, And plants an empire on the sea!

With an effort he swallowed, and turning, strode up and down on a rapid, mechanical sentry-go.

The palace is on the central squarean unpretentious building in the trees, with a driveway leading up from two gates, at which stand two motionless sentries, each with one stiff feather in his cap.

A north-easterly snowstorm was blowing furiously, straight up the St Lawrence, making Quebec a partly seen blur to the nearest American patrols and the Heights of Abraham a wild sea of whirling drifts to the nearest British sentries.

At the South, where tower the northern sentries of the Adirondacks, a stream called Little Bill Creek comes splashing and dashing over the rocks to force its way noisily into the lake.

Accompanied by my private secretary, Dr. P. L. Sherman, I hastened to Caloocan, where we arrived just at dusk, having had to run the gantlet of numerous inquisitive sentries en route.

Beyond an occasional sentry, there was nothing to indicate that we were passing through a country at war, except that we rarely saw a man of military age.

He was a perpetual sentry in the corner.

" "And there's that infernal coward of a ranchero," cried Coronado, as the runaway sentry sneaked back to the group.

The rustic sentries uncrossed their muskets and let us in.

Not long after leaving Philadelphia, we passed a solitary sentry keeping guard over a short railroad-bridge.