barracks

• A few minutes more brought me to a dreary, sun-burnt shore, stalked over by a few Sclavonian soldiers, who inhabit a castle hard by, go regularly to an ugly unfinished church, and from thence, it is to be hoped, to paradise; as the air of their barracks is abominable, and kills them like blasted sheep. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
• Their attitude had the casual ease of the guardroom or the barracks, an informality seldom found except among men for whom social conventions have temporarily ceased to count. —  Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett—Simenon, Georges - 01
• Beyond the barracks are the armies of humankind, a hundred and twenty thousand strong this evening. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
• The boys in the barracks were allowed two tunics, one for summer and one for winter. —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
• We've got about twenty left, I think I might, at that, unless you can tell me where I can find lodging at a reasonable price Friend, there isn't a place in this whole city where you can find cheap lodging except the Hundred-Foot Field and the barracks, and the word is that the penalty for civilians sleeping in the barracks is a hundred lashes— and you re-enlist. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0

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