1 In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy.
2 At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
3 On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.
4 Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage.
5 This was a plan of campaign he had devised while serving at the outposts during the retreat.
6 They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 7 He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR