guard-house

"Damned old martinet!" mutters Willem, as we heard the heavy tread of the sergeant's return, fading as he went round to the guard-house at the front.

Watershed 2010

Ishikawa-joo is also lovely, though it is just the guard-house.

Wherein I query the internet hivemind about travel 2009

The breaches having been repaired, I betook myself to the redoubt, which served as a guard-house and armoury.

Madeleine de Verchères de Brantigny........................ 2008

Several men having been confined and threatened with corporal punishment, considerable discontent and irritation were excited among their comrades, which increased to such violence, that, when some men were confined in the guard-house, a great proportion of the regiment rushed out and forcibly released the prisoners.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

The breaches having been repaired, I betook myself to the redoubt, which served as a guard-house and armoury.

Archive 2008-06-08 de Brantigny........................ 2008

In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel.

Les Miserables 2008

I went back to the guard-house, where I passed the following night.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Perhaps they had escaped from some guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the

Les Miserables 2008

Afterwards I went back to the guard-house, and laid myself down to sleep; while the guards were amusing themselves in dancing, singing, and drinking.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

The sound of doors opening and shutting, the creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement of the courts, reached his ears.

Les Miserables 2008