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• Grim said a few words to Narayan Singh in Arabic, which so far as the sentry was concerned wasn't a language, but Narayan Singh spoke in turn in Punjabi, and the man just out from India began to droop like Jonah's gourd under the old soldier's scorn. —  Affair in Araby
• Yet he had not warned me that the sentry might be an old woman. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
• "None of your blooming us," said the sentry, and shot the sergeant dead However the sentry was soon persuaded, and when I passed the outpost, the sentry who should really have stopped me and examined my passport treated me as a field-officer and presented arms, so I rode away back to the dust of Modder. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
• In a few moments the sentry was alone in the trench. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916
• Now was his time, while the sentry was at the further limit of his beat Swiftly he climbed on board, slipped the rope from its cleat, and with a push of an oar against the bank sent the boat some distance out into the stream. —  Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive

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