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The invalid in the oriel never clearly gathered the details of progress in this conflict of lay and clerical opinion; but so it was that, to the disappointment of musicians, the grief of out-walking lovers, and the regret of the junior population of the town and country round, the band-playing on Sunday afternoons ceased in Casterbridge barrack-square.

A Changed Man 2006

A strong breeze blew almost always over this high ground, and filled all the buildings erected on three sides of the barrack-square, which howled incessantly like a cave of the winds.

The Guermantes Way 2003

Nogusta strode back across the barrack-square and bowed to the White Wolf.

Winter Warriors Gemmell, David 1997

I spent most of my time standing in the corner with a wet diaper on my head while she screamed and ranted in barrack-square German.

An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

Lieutenant-Colonel Crofton, who so recently left us, had been assassinated on the barrack-square in Colchester.

A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle Edwin George Rundle

Bracing barrack-square; magnificent pedestrian exercise.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 Various

Extended manœuvres were impracticable in this well-fenced agricultural area, so the training embraced much route-marching, and barrack-square work, musketry, signalling, visual training, etc.

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

‘Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousnesson an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

A man of rich experience and high merit, deeply versed in the teachings of his Master, and enjoying His unqualified confidence, he, refusing every offer of deliverance from the leading officials of Ṭihrán, yearned unceasingly for the martyrdom which had been denied him on the day the Báb had laid down His life in the barrack-square of Tabríz.

God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Faith and the loss of most of the Letters of the Living, and, after experiencing, in His own person, a series of bitter humiliations, He had been executed by a firing squad in the barrack-square of Tabríz.

God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927