Now if you'll stand sentry, Coddy and I will get tea.

After passing the sentry he stopped and took a good look at the building, then he had to beat a hasty retreat, and narrowly escaped capture; but by that time he had partly accomplished his object.

Early on the morning of the second day after the arrival of our travellers at the neighboring castle of Blonay, a body of men, dressed in the guise of halberdiers, a species of troops then known in most of the courts of Europe, marched into the great square of Vévey, taking possession of all its centre, and posting its sentries in such a manner as to interdict the usual passages of the place.

However, the O.C. would have none of it; he maintained that this constant menace at our gates kept the sentries on the qui vive and accustomed them to practically Active Service conditions.

"The family are watching, death if he is caught, if he fails to kill the French sentry.

One early morning in January an angry officer was asking a sentry why he hadn't challenged him, when the sentry said, 'God bless your Honour!

He steals back over the low hillock, mounts the horse, and by a détour reaches the sentry guarding the river front of the prison.

"I'm sorry to detain you," he said apologetically, "but I ordered the sentries to stop the first American car that passed, and yours happened to be the unlucky one.

The cry of a bird, some vague sound attracts the sentry, he turns; all is lost.

And bribing the sentry, even were he willing to be insulted, would not have taken me farther than the stairs, where there were other sentries.

The night passed quickly, and at daybreak, when visiting the sentries, I heard distinctly the bugles of the rebels sounding the reveille, succeeded by other familiar calls.

It was our business now to open the bridge and see it clear, and leave sentries along to keep it permanently free for Freedom.

Next he had to dodge the Russian sentries, whose boxes were placed on the boundary line only a thousand yards apart.

He then went on board his ship and ordered all natives ashore, whilst King returned to the camp, and doubling his sentries, gave orders he was to be called if any natives were seen about.

Yet, in spite of these precautions, hostile Indians manage to elude the sentries and creep into the camp.

Here they found Austrian sentries, who accosted them in German.

And ah, we knew to mount a gallant guard, To fix our sentries, and to prime them well With varied information that might serve To help them in their duties and to make Them glib and eloquent when called upon In all the changes of this martial life.

Scowlyou know that scowl of hisit freezes the very sentries on the wall if he looks at their backs through the window!

It was ordered that one company should be placed each night on advanced outlying picket, another on rear picket, and a third to be stationed at the main guard to furnish sentries as a cordon round the whole extent of the barracks.

The men were singing loudly, and greeted an Italian sentry on Peteano bridge with cheerful cries of "Buona sera, Johnny!"

I had just made my first round and found all well, when I heard a sentry near by challenge sharply.

The object was twofold: first, to keep sparks from lighting on the wagon covers; second, to hide the sentries from prowling archers.

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?

" We halted, and George went on ahead and interviewed a sentry, returning with a negative reply, and the information that Coulommiers was in a pretty mess after the looting.

He explained that, having slipped his handcuffs, he rushed on deck, seized the oar, which he still carried, knocked down two sentries and leaped overboard.