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One or two soldiers, who endeavoured to turn out to the support of their sentinel, were in the same manner seized and disarmed, and the mob without difficulty possessed themselves of the Guard-house, disarming and turning out of doors the rest of the men on duty.
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Guard-house was a long, low, ugly building (removed in 1787), which to a fanciful imagination might have suggested the idea of a long black snail crawling up the middle of the High Street, and deforming its beautiful esplanade.
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The building above that, of brick, is the Main Guard-house, and is a very convenient place for that purpose.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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Guns; burnt the Carriages, Platforms, and Guard-house; destroyed the
An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations Charles Knowles
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The Guard-house and small tents on the west side of the camp are also moved now.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer
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The Regimental Guard-house, a stone structure built by Napoleon I, a few feet off to the right, was mercifully left out of the picture.
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"Guard-house," said the Sergeant, shaking his head.
Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War John Fox 1891
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Lodged in the Guard-house at the Dey's Palace, with pretty abundant
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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The Ceremony held about two hours, after which we were splendidly entertained at the Convent, and then by the Governor at the Guard-house, his own habitation being about three leagues off.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Text uses both Guard-house and Guardhouse; pottle-pot and pottlepot; stand-still and standstill; and Train-bands and Trainbands.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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