26 Words to use with pickets

The march is now easier and the picket-lines are strengthened.

Flushes of sweetpeas ripple along its picket fences and off toward the backyards are long grape-arbors, in autumn their great fruit-clusters ripening to purple frost.

With a wild hurrah, drowned in the musketry to the left, they rush forward, are halted by a picket guard, exhibit Sherman's order, and are directed to the commanding-officer.

On the night of Jan. 18, Company A was on picket duty.

No Indians, however, made their appearance, and upon going to the picket-post where the picket said he had seen them, none could be found nor could any traces of them be discovered.

The stranger untied the rope from the picket pin, and taking a half-loop around the pony's nose, he jumped on his back.

Her ankle had caught in a picket rope, which in another second would have wrenched it cruelly, had I not slashed it free with my knife.

She sidestepped them, hurrying down a wind-swept brick walk and out a picket gate that did not swing entirely after.

As the day lengthened toward evening, picket firing became incessant, and the occasional solid report of a cannon from the shore opposite disclosed the presence of Confederate batteries, the nearness of which surprised many an untried soldier.

The great trading-house attracted his attention, with its narrow picket lane leading to the door; the storehouse surrounded by a protective log fence; the fort itself, a medley of heavy-timbered stockades and square block-houses.

"The first landing was made at a picket-station on Charles Hopkins's plantation.

I see the picket-hut, the den Where I last night lay."

Driving my donkey before me, I boldly approached the first picket-house and saluted the non-commissioned officer in military fashion.

Four pieces of artillery formed a portion of the picket force on the Fayetteville road, the direct route to Wilson Creek.

Cairns appeared presently through the infantry, and around the end of the picket-linea correspondent serving mule-riders with all the enthusiasm of a pitifully-tightened belt....

The watered mules had to do just so much kicking, so much braying at the young moon; had to be assured just so often, through their queer communications, that the bell-mare was still in the land of picket-linebefore nose-bags were fastened.

I was safer here than I had been an hour ago, while following up the picket-linesafer, perhaps, than I had been at any time that day.

In front were black spots in the wheatfive paces apart- a picket-linewhose?

With Volunteers, Artillery Company, Picket men, Firemen, Lumber Troop, &c., they would have had about 2,250.

Stuart was an extremely vigilant picket-officer, and both he and General Lee were in the habit of sending accomplished scouts to watch any movements in the Federal camps.

There were no picket fires.

One dark rainy night, about the 21st, I believe, Willis and I were both on the picket detail.

I found that this was his little account for mending the hedge at the "picket close.

As he fired and shouted, the picket-sentry did the same, and, within a minute of Horace's first shot, ten rifles were levelled at the spot where the rushing silent fiends had disappeared.

He was ready for any duty, no matter what: to lead a picket squad into its pits under fire; to serve all night on the skirmish detail in place of a sick friend; to dig and shoot and laugh, and swear, in everything he was simply superb.

26 Words to use with  pickets