42 Verbs to Use for the Word barracks

It will then be inevitably necessary to divide the army from the rest of the community, and to build barracks for their reception; an expedient which, though it may afford present ease to the nation, cannot be put in practice without danger to our liberties.

We were astir very early next morning, through some whim of Sergeant Corney's, who insisted that the Minute Boys should be the first to make an appearance, and I left the barracks fully expecting to find a scene of confusion outside.

As we passed the barracks at Bernéra, I looked at them wishfully, as soldiers have always every thing in the best order: but there was only a serjeant and a few men there.

He admits that he thus visited the barracks and the ramparts.

" Jacob and I would have insisted that the old soldier tell us more regarding the desertion, although it was evident he had imparted all the information at his command; but he, bent on getting some rest before morning, entered the barracks, and we could hardly do better than follow him.

[Illustration] Eight or ten men come flying down the Chaussée d'Antin; they join, crying out, "The Versaillais have taken the barracks; they are establishing a battery.

The contingent of Count Stanislas, to which Jack Archer was attached with his gun, was intended to attack the principal barrack.

The Representatives were attended by these shouts until they reached the barracks of the Quai d'Orsay, where they were shut up.

" Every layman knows that a reservist cannot enter a barracks in civilian attire, and emerge five minutes later in full war-kit ready for the march.

The interval within the two walls of the circumvallation was roofed over, and formed barracks, in which the besiegers posted themselves, and awaited the effects of want or treachery among the besieged in producing a surrender; and in every Greek city of those days, as in every Italian republic of the Middle Ages, the rage of domestic sedition between aristocrats and democrats ran high.

On the opposite side of the harbor was Fort Johnstone, a low point, exhibiting a barrack, a few houses, and a sand redoubt, with three forty-two pounders.

they have fired the barracks.

In the afternoon the Naval School paraded their last before they gave up their barracks to the coming soldiery.

The quarters of the Turkish prisoners in Maadi Camp include: (1) Old buildings originally erected as a school of music and subsequently used as a factory; (2) barracks built recently for prisoners of war.

Both were under-officers in an infantry regimentbound to join their barracks within twenty-four hours after the call to arms.

At the extremity of the mole, lay the barracks of the Janissaries, entrusted with the defence of the marine forts, and consisting of several small separate chambers, in which they each slept on sheepskin mats, while in the centre was a handsome coffee-room.

"I'll keep her here to liven up the old barracks.

And it is at least equally probable that the word "praetorium" simply means the barrack of that detachment of Roman soldiers from which Paul's gaolers were taken in turn.

Fortunately, the troops were divided into two portions, one occupying the barracks on a hill north of the city, and the other, a mere corporal's guard of a dozen men, posted in the citadel.

TRINCOMALEE (10), an important naval station and seaport on the NE. coast of Ceylon, 110 m. NE. of Kandy; possesses barracks, official residences, and a splendid harbour, a haven of shelter to shipping during the monsoons, and is strongly fortified.

A little later Clive protected his great barracks at Berhampur with a line of large tanks along the landward side.

No limit is placed upon the time during which exercise may be taken in the open space round the barracks.

The gates are heavy, certainly, and may take us a day or two; but, as for stockadingI've seen barracks stockaded in, in a week, if I remember right.

I looked into the others to seeinto your great barrack, and into Marcos' room at the end of the balcony.

Sarah Huggins served this vast barracks single-handed.

42 Verbs to Use for the Word  barracks