1 She picked her way precariously across the stepping stones of the muddy street and walked forward until a sentry, his blue overcoat buttoned high against the wind, stopped her.
2 "Well, I don't know," said the sentry, scratching his head.
3 He turned to another sentry who was slowly pacing his beat: "Yee-ah, Bill."
4 The second sentry, a large man muffled in a blue overcoat from which villainous black whiskers burst, came through the mud toward them.
5 Scarlett thanked him and followed the sentry.
6 The hall was dark and as cold as a vault and a shivering sentry was leaning against the closed folding doors of what had been, in better days, the dining room.
7 Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley.
8 The sentry was our young Divine.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 9 The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 10 Cacambo, who stood sentry by the door of the arbour, ran to him.
11 Stop, sir; here is the door where the sentry stands.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION... 12 The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 13 Before the guns an artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing.
14 She looked down the street toward the firehouse and saw that the wide arched doors were closed and heavily barred and two sentries passed and repassed on each side of the building.
15 Young ladies don't dare Yankee sentries to see a prisoner, just for charity's sweet sake, and come all dressed up in velvet and feathers and seal muffs too.