sentry

• “It was pitch dark, so I called the sentry and told him some one was hurt.”

  "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

• “In a loud voice he called the sentry who was pacing below; and in a moment the man appeared in answer to that summons.”

  The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro

• “There he go back and forrards, doing what he call his sentry go.”

  Round the Red Lamp

• “I recalled the sentry's warm blood running over my hands and guiltily, reflexively wiped them on my cloak.”

  Renegade's Magic

• “With his "inquisitive mind" and his "failing for romance," the sentry is a fantasy version of the short-sighted poet, who repeatedly tried to enlist during World War I and once almost succeeded by memorizing the eye chart.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Five Best

• “The sentry was a husky woman who held the rank of corporal.”

  Call to Treason

• “Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir.”

  Kim

• “The sentry was a grenadier; please note the accuracy of detail which should dispel any doubt as to the truth of the story -- the grenadier touch is especially convincing.”

  From a Terrace in Prague

• “Who goes there?" called the sentry at the sound of approaching footsteps.”

  More Toasts

• “Then calling the sentry, I gave him a drink and a cigar, and stepping out into the hall, I began my usual march around through the upper rooms of the barracks.”

  Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude

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