Sentinels
[sentənəlz]
Examples
- I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And so two of Rawdon's out-sentinels were in the hands of the enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Another crow joined them and Robert Jordan, watching them, thought: those are my sentinels. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nabonidus was taken prisoner, and Persian sentinels were set at the gates of the temple of Bel, where the services continued without intermission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I suppose that fellow that rode by on the mule posted all the sentinels, from Athens to the Piraeus, about us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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