garrison-town

No smart dinner in the country houses of the younger and gayer families within driving distance of the borough was complete without their lively presence; Mrs. Maumbry was the blithest of the whirling figures at the county ball; and when followed that inevitable incident of garrison-town life, an amateur dramatic entertainment, it was just the same.

A Changed Man 2006

November 1785, he and Alexander, foot-sore, but full of boyish spirits, entered the old garrison-town of Valence in Southern France, and were warmly welcomed by Alexander's older brother, Captain Gabriel des Mazes, of the La Fère regiment, who at once took the boys in charge, and introduced them to their new life as soldiers of the garrison of

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

Theodore Lamette was his first colonel, Douai his first garrison-town.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

The next scene which we adduce is that where the battered figure of a pale, grisly man walks into the garrison-town of Bayonne, after a three-years 'absence, explained only to his disgrace, mutely overcomes the guard, and rings the bell of the Governor's house.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

Thrice accursed be that garrison-town, when it dives under the boat's keel, and comes up a league or two to the right, with the packet shivering and spluttering and staring about for it!

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

No smart dinner in the country houses of the younger and gayer families within driving distance of the borough was complete without their lively presence; Mrs. Maumbry was the blithest of the whirling figures at the county ball; and when followed that inevitable incident of garrison-town life, an amateur dramatic entertainment, it was just the same.

A Changed Man; and other tales Thomas Hardy 1884

Oswald had obtained from a garrison-town some twenty miles from

Run to Earth A Novel 1875

On the day after his arrival he gave orders that the Hessian soldiery who had been sent on furlough after the battle of Jena should present themselves, every man in the garrison-town where he had stood on the 1st of November, 1806.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Captain of Foot, a studious and rather solitary bachelor of eight or nine and twenty years of age, who did not care very much for the jollities which his comrades engaged in, and was never known to lose his heart in any garrison-town — should you wish to know why such a man had so prodigious a tenderness, and tended so fondly

The History of Henry Esmond 1852

Thrice accursed be that garrison-town, when it dives under the boat's keel, and comes up a league or two to the right, with the packet shivering and spluttering and staring about for it!

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841