Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A guardroom.
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Examples
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One of the four guards opened the door and they entered the hall which, like the guard-chamber, was lighted from above with a narrow slot-like skylight on each side of which winked the green fire-gems.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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One of the four guards opened the door and they entered the hall which, like the guard-chamber, was lighted from above with a narrow slot-like skylight on each side of which winked the green fire-gems.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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In the third story, or guard-chamber, is a small recess with a loop-hole, probably a bedchamber, and in that floor above a niche for a saint or holy-water pot.
Ivanhoe 2004
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She sent it rushing down the passageway to the guard-chamber, filling the entire passageway with her conjured flood, creating a river of water that she sent pouring down on the heads of the unsuspecting guards.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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She saw nothing down below, not even a light; the slanting passage and the distance it had to cross in order to reach the guard-chamber made certain of that.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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This, Ware had told her, led down to the guard-chamber just outside the one holding the crystal shard itself.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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In the next moment, she had banished it, and she stood, completely dry, in the midst of the guard-chamber.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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He then, crossing a court paved with marble, went upstairs, and came into the guard-chamber, where the guards were standing in their ranks, with their muskets upon their shoulders, and snoring as loud as they could.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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I. attempted to banish it, and in return the soldiers of Cromwell puffed their smoke contemptuously in his face, as he sat a prisoner in the guard-chamber.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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Being past the guard-chamber, I thought myself secure.
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