guard-room

But one drawback, the Commandant insisted that every tin was opened as you wanted it, the parcels were stored in a back store by the guard-room, and each day you were allowed to have what you wanted out of it.

John Keay 2010

"In," growls the havildar, and I found myself in a small vaulted guard-room; I blinked in the sudden glare of oil lamps, and then my heart lurched down into my boots, for the figure peering intently towards me from the centre of the room was the little fat chamberlain whom I knew so well from Lakshmibai's durbar.

Fiancée 2010

They had hauled me into the guard-room, and there he was, the inevitable cigarette clamped between his teeth, those terrible hypnotic blue-brown eyes regarding me with no more emotion than a snake's.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

I forced myself to envisage the house from above ... there was the Emperor's room, here was I, on t 'other side, and there the guard-room by the front porch, so I must make my way cautiously by the back.

Watershed 2010

I reassured him - he could have had a knighthood and the town hall clock for my part - as he conducted me up through the guard-room to a little spiral stair, and then along a great stone passage of the fort, which gave way to a carpeted corridor where sentries of her guard stood in their steel caps and backs-and-breasts.

Fiancée 2010

A guard-room of the same effeminate soldiers received him, nor could the strictest examination have discovered to him whether it was sleep or death which arrested the eyes that seemed to look upon and prohibit his advance.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

While discoursing with the archer in this manner, Sir John de Walton, of a tall and handsome figure, advanced and stood within the ample arch of the guard-room chimney, and was listened to in reverential silence by trusty Gilbert, who filled up with nods and signs, as an attentive auditor, the pauses in the conversation.

Castle Dangerous 2008

He went, therefore, towards the guard-room of the castle, under the pretence of seeing that the rites of hospitality had been duly observed towards his late travelling companion.

Castle Dangerous 2008

The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from the guard-room into the gutter.

Les Miserables 2008

He came back immediately and told me the King was sleeping; the guard took possession of my people and me, and lodged us in the guard-room with them.

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