Warders
[wɔ:dəz]
Examples
- When the fighting was over there was no one left of our enemies except just the warders, the mates, and the doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He's got two of the warders and Mereer, the second mate, and he'd get the captain himself, if he thought him worth it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Two of the warders were agents of Prendergast, and the second mate was his right-hand man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The two warders had been shot and thrown overboard, and so also had the third mate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Let me go forth, he said to the warders at the door of the hall,--let me go forth! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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