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  • Antrim town, the site of the Massereene Barracks, is smaller still.

    Pathetic army excuse about base security does nothing to answer the questions Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Orwell acknowledges on the second page of the book that the opening scene at the Lenin Barracks takes place "in late December 1936, less than seven months ago as I write, and yet it is a period that has already receded into enormous distance" (2).

    Where He Wrote: Periodicals and the Essays of George Orwell 1995

  • All this time I was at the Lenin Barracks, ostensibly in training for the front.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • In the whole of the Lenin Barracks there were, I believe, no rifles except those used by the sentries.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • IN THE Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers’ table.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • The Lenin Barracks was a block of splendid stone buildings with a riding-school and enormous cobbled courtyards; it had been a cavalry barracks and had been captured during the July fighting.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • She would try not, and contented herself with one final question, as the hostess rose from the table and, the others hurrying "Barracks" - ward, she could whisper:

    Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876

  • They’re going to run the “pedicabs,” as they call them, in Barracks Road, at UVa, and along West Main down to the Mall.

    Pedicab Service Available Downtown at cvillenews.com 2003

  • They’re going to run the “pedicabs,” as they call them, in Barracks Road, at UVa, and along West Main down to the Mall.

    2003 August archive at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Not far from the Barracks was the business center of town.

    Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

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