picket's

“A missile ahead of them had exploded, probably hit by an alien picket's beam of destruction.”

Genellan- Planetfall

“Since the crowd of hecklers had appeared quite suddenly, and since the police cars had appeared immediately afterwards, and just in time to witness a heckler trying to seize a picket's sign, and since a Green Star official had thereupon gone huffing off to get a court order, the abbot suspected that the heckling had been as carefully staged as the picketing, to enable the Green Star officer to get his writ.”

A Canticle for Leibowitz

“A yellow glare lit the scene, flickered on the sky, and even gave sufficient light to the picket on the hill-top to see a wave of wild, white-clad, knife-brandishing figures surge over the edge of the hill and bear down upon them, to be joined, as they passed, by those who had sunk behind stones at the picket's first fire.”

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

“The red flash of a picket's gun on the shore of the river and the quick answer from the other side brought his dreaming to a sudden stop before the sterner fact of the swiftly approaching battle.”

The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln

“As they advanced, a picket's gun echoed a warning from rock to rock.”

Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest

“Because Banks, his Q.M. Gen. had failed to supply him lately with stores, was our picket's reply & &c.”

Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to Sara A. Hotchkiss, December 7, 1862

“They were so near he could see their faces, could hear them speak; yet he durst not make any sign to them when he lay within range of the French picket's fire.”

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3